Grammer has been married four times, and has eight children and one grandchild. His first marriage, to a dance instructor, Doreen Alderman, They have one daughter, the actress
Spencer Grammer (born October 9, 1983). Through Spencer, Grammer has one grandson, born on October 10, 2011. After his divorce from Alderman, Grammer had a daughter,
Kandace Greer Grammer (born February 15, 1992), with a hair and makeup stylist, Barrie Buckner. Greer was later a cast member on
MTV's show
Awkward. His second marriage, to Leigh-Anne Csuhany in September 1992, lasted one year. When Csuhany was three months pregnant, Grammer filed for an
annulment and evicted her from their home; The pregnancy ended in a miscarriage. In 1994, he met 28-year-old Tammi Baliszewski at a bar in
Manhattan Beach, California. In December 1994, they appeared together on the cover of
People magazine, announcing their engagement and Grammer's
substance abuse problems. In August 1997, Grammer married the dancer and model
Camille Donatacci. They met on a
blind date in 1996. They have a daughter, Mason, born October 2001, and a son, Jude, born August 2004, both born to a
gestational carrier. and
Bel Air, Los Angeles (
Architectural Digest). In New York City, they lived at
15 Central Park West. On July 1, 2010, it was announced that Camille had filed for divorce. The pair's divorce was finalized on February 10, 2011. On August 12, 2010, Grammer announced that he was going to be a father to a fifth child, this time with his girlfriend, Kayte Walsh, an English flight attendant 25 years his junior and daughter of the former soccer player
Alan Walsh. In October, Grammer announced that Walsh had
miscarried six weeks earlier. The couple announced their engagement in December 2010 and married at
the Plaza Hotel in New York City on February 25, 2011, two weeks after the dissolution of Grammer's third marriage. Grammer and Walsh have a daughter, born July 2012, and two sons, born July 2014 and November 2016. On January 18, 2023, it was reported that Grammer had purchased a house in his wife's hometown of
Portishead, Somerset, England. In June 2025, it was revealed that Walsh is expecting their fourth child together, which will be Grammer’s eighth overall. In 2001, Grammer described himself as religious and believed in
God, but he said
he does not adhere to any particular religion. But in 2023 that changed. In an interview over his playing Pastor Chuck Smith in "Jesus Revolution" he admits that even though he was raised in Christian Science, he considered himself more of a born-again follower of Jesus. he said "What I found in my life – with the sort of resident malaise that lives in my soul because of some of the things that happened – I have found that in those moments, Jesus is actually more present, more apparent, more readily available than I realised." Grammer says he came to this conclusion when he was standing on a baseball field a while ago, and asked God: "Where were you?" "The answer came: 'I was right there.' I do think that when things are at their worst, that's when Christ is closest.", and his views in some areas are more in line with more progressive Christianity.
Murder of Karen Grammer On July 1, 1975, Grammer's younger sister, 18-year-old Karen Grammer, was raped and murdered by multiple
spree killers,
Freddie Glenn and three other men. Grammer identified his sister's body and informed their mother shortly after. According to Grammer, his bouts of alcoholism and drug abuse were driven, in part, by guilt and depression over his sister's death, as the pair had been close in childhood. In a 2012 interview with
Oprah Winfrey, Grammer said he would be willing to forgive the perpetrators if they would take responsibility for the crime, though they all claimed innocence. In the same interview, Grammer expressed his loss of faith for several years after Karen's death. He subsequently forgave Glenn in a 2014 parole hearing after being convinced of Glenn's contrition, but refused to support his release, saying that it would "be a betrayal of my sister's life". Grammer's 2025 book
Karen: A Brother Remembers is about his sister's life and murder, and its effect on his life.
Politics in New York City, in May 2006 Grammer has been a longtime supporter of the
Republican Party, and he endorsed the
Tea Party movement on economic issues such as
small government and
lower taxes;
City A.M. described him as "one of Hollywood's best-known Republicans, a rare spark of red in a blue sea of
Democrats". In 2015, however, his wife posted an
Instagram photo of Grammer wearing a T-shirt from the
anti-abortion group Abort73. Grammer has expressed disbelief on the
scientific consensus on climate change, comparing the
California wildfires to alleged
global cooling from his youth and criticized the 2011 and 2018 climate meetings. Additionally, he stated in a 2016 interview with
The Guardian that the person he admired most was
Vladimir Putin "because he is so comfortably who he is". In 2019, he issued a statement in support of
Brexit. Grammer has criticized Washington politicians, stating: "I don't think Washington did us any favors for the last 50, 60 years, I think they've all been sort of the same party, the same bunch of clowns". He has expressed an interest in some day running for the
United States Congress,
Mayor of New York City, and the presidency. In an interview with radio talk show host
Frank Morano in August 2021, he indicated that he was no longer interested in running for office. Grammer was a guest at President
George W. Bush's
first inauguration. Grammer also promoted
RightNetwork, a
conservative start-up American television network. He endorsed
Michele Bachmann for the
Republican nomination for president in 2012. Grammer later endorsed
Mitt Romney after he had won the Republican nomination. He initially supported
Ben Carson's candidacy for the
Republican presidential nomination in 2016, although later stating he would gladly vote for Republican candidate
Donald Trump in the upcoming
election. Grammer expressed support for Trump again in a May 2025 interview with
The Times. At the
2025 Kennedy Center Honors, Grammer called Trump “One of the greatest presidents we've ever had. Maybe the greatest".
Health problems Grammer has a history of
substance abuse. In August 1990, Grammer was charged again with cocaine possession and was sentenced to three years'
probation, fined $500, and required to perform 300 hours of
community service. Grammer credits his religious faith for helping him confront his personal problems. Grammer was discharged on June 4, 2008, and was said to be "resting comfortably" at his Hawaii residence. Seven weeks after the attack, Grammer told
Entertainment Tonight that, although his spokesman described the attack as mild, it was more severe as his
heart had stopped. Grammer thought Fox's decision to cancel his television sitcom
Back to You contributed to his health problems, saying: "It was a very stressful time for me, and a surprise that it was cancelled. But you know, everything that doesn't kill us—which it almost did—makes us stronger!"
Legal issues In 1988, Grammer was arrested for possession of one-quarter gram of cocaine, after being pulled over in a traffic stop for driving with expired plates in
North Hollywood, California. A year earlier, he had been arrested for a DUI in
Van Nuys, California, and would go on to serve 14 days of a 30-day sentence. Grammer later served 10 days of community service after failing to comply with the requirements of his parole in 1990. Later in the same year, Grammer was sentenced to 90 days of
house arrest, ordered to pay a $500 fine, underwent drug and alcohol abuse counseling, and performed 300 hours of community service for his 1988 cocaine possession case. In 1995, Grammer was accused of having sex with his child's underage babysitter. A grand jury chose not to indict the actor, stating: "The young woman's delay of more than a year in pressing charges against Mr. Grammer made it difficult to support her claim." Grammer released a statement shortly afterward, saying: "I have said from the outset that there was no basis for the allegations." In 1996, Grammer's ex-girlfriend, Cerlette Lamme, sued him for
defamation of character and
invasion of privacy over content he included in his autobiography
So Far.... In 1998, Grammer filed a lawsuit against
Internet Entertainment Group (IEG), which Grammer claimed had stolen from his home a
videotape of him in bed with a woman. IEG counter-sued Grammer, denying it was in possession of such a tape, and Grammer's suit was dropped. IEG President
Seth Warshavsky later said, "We have been presented with another Kelsey Grammer tape. But we have no plans to air it. We are still evaluating it at this time." == Acting credits ==