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Greer Grammer Says Kelsey Once Urged She Drop His Last Name

Her account appears on a podcast focused on their years-long estrangement, culminating in a chance reconnection at 16.

Overview

  • On the Pretty Basic podcast, Greer Grammer says Kelsey Grammer told her mother it might be better if she did not carry his surname so life would be easier.
  • She recalls learning this at 19 and "starting sobbing," calling it the "meanest thing" before later conceding "he's not wrong."
  • She describes being apart from her father from age 4 to 16 and reconnecting when he approached her at a Christmas tree lot and asked, "Are you Greer?"
  • She says he paid required child support and covered tuition, while she paid housing, books, and sorority costs herself and does not have a trust fund.
  • People reports Kelsey has said he is "playing catch up" with some older children and that he recently welcomed an eighth child, Christopher, with wife Kayte Walsh.