12-05-2025
Frasier star Kelsey Grammer says the spirit of his late mother continues to haunt him at home
Kelsey Grammer believes he felt his dead mom Sally's presence during an argument with his wife Kayte Walsh.
While promoting his book Karen: A Brother Remembers on Thursday, the actor spoke about the ghostly encounter on The Jamie Kern Lima Show.
The couple, who got married in 2011, were living in Sally's house at the time when they got into 'a bit of a tussle' before going to bed and heard a loud noise.
Sally passed away peacefully at her home in Westlake, California, in 2008, aged 80.
Grammer said: 'We had a great moment when Kayte and I were having a fight when we were in our early [days], our first year together basically.
'We climbed into bed kind of mad with each other, and I heard this huge bang in the living room and said, "What the heck?"
'I reached out the bed and I grabbed a golf club that I kept there for that reason.'
After a brief chat about who should go and look into the noise, Grammer said went.
The star found the TV on, which he thought was 'weird', because he knew he had switched it off before going to bed.
Grammer continued: 'I looked around a little bit, turned it off, and thought, "Thanks mom." You know? "Don't go to bed angry with each other."'
When he returned to the bedroom, he discovered his wife had also had something of an interesting moment.
Walsh, who got a whiff of flowers at the time her husband left, said to him: 'What did your mom smell like?'
He said: 'It was really something, really something. I thought, "This is real, this is not something heretical going on."'
The star, who was raised a Christian Scientist, previously said he's religious but he did not adhere to any particular religion, admitted he did not care if other people believed the story or not.
He said: 'I don't try to convince people they should think the way I think or see God the way I see God or experience this universe the way I experience it, but I will not deny my faith.'
Grammer revealed another spiritual connection compelled him to write the book about his sibling Karen, and he worked with a psychic medium who helped him received the message.
He said: 'I got a very strange imperative saying, "Write this..." Well, it didn't say "write" actually, it just said, "Tell. Tell my story," from my sister, through [psychic] Esther, somebody we were working with at the time. It's just turned into the book.
'Esther's pretty gifted. I've known a few gifted people. I produced a show called Medium and that was part of it.
'I was always kind of in that community a little bit. I found out, of course, everybody who's a medium actually wants a television show. So a lot of people contacted me for a while.
'You do find out that some are really gifted... But if you've got somebody who doesn't know you, who's accurate about your life 70 per cent of the time, pulls names out of the air, you may as well pay attention, whatever your point [of view] is, or whatever jaundiced view you may have of the whole mediumship issue.'
The star's memoir Karen: A Brother Remembers is in bookstores.
