Kelsey Grammer’s ex-wife Camille Meyer wants the Frasier star to be more active in the life of their two children together.
In an Instagram post shared on Monday (Oct. 26), Meyer accused Grammer, who is father to eight children with four different women, of being an absentee father.
“A daughter should never have to wonder whether her father remembers her birthday,” Meyer wrote. “Three days later, and still not a call or a text. You can be a beloved actor to the world, but being a father is a role that requires showing up when the cameras are off. Fame, accolades, and public admiration mean very little if you neglect the people who should matter most.”
Grammer and Meyer met in 1996 and married the following year. They welcomed a daughter in 2001, Mason, and a son in 2004 through surrogacy. She filed for divorce from him in 2010, and they finalized the divorce less than a year later.
“Some wounds come not from what is said, but from the silence,” Meyer continued. “A mother never stops hurting when her child is hurt. 25 is a milestone birthday. Sometimes the silence is deafening, and the disappointment speaks volumes. Mason told me she kept checking her phone all weekend, hoping her father had called, even from an unfamiliar number or that his message had somehow ended up in her spam folder. She even checked there, searching for any sign that he had reached out.”
She also asserted that a stepmother “should want to encourage a healthy, loving relationship between a father and his daughter.” Meyer argued, however, that wasn’t Mason’s experience.
“Instead, she has felt increasingly excluded from her father’s life and home,” she wrote. “No matter the adult relationships involved, a daughter deserves to feel welcomed, respected, and loved—not pushed to the sidelines. A 25th birthday should be a celebration of love, not another reminder of the distance between a father and his child.”
Grammar has been married four times, with Meyer being his third wife. He was previously married to Doreen Alderman from 1982 to 1990, Leigh-Anne Csuhany from 1992 to 1993, Camille Meyer from 1997 to 2011, and married Kayte Walsh in 2011.
