Former Cheers co-stars Kelsey Grammer and Ted Danson recently made headlines when they publicly mended their friendship after almost 30 years of not being on speaking terms. Now, Grammer has finally shared some details about what led to their argument, noting he was at a difficult point in his life at that time.

Speaking to the New York Post, the Frasier star revealed, “It got a little blown out of proportion. There really wasn’t an argument. It was at a time in my life when I was actually going through a lot of self-doubt, self-loathing, honestly.”

“It was when I was drinking a lot,” Grammer added. “Ted had just come up and said, ‘You know, I’m kind of mad at you that sometimes you don’t show up ready to go.’ And I said, ‘OK, I respect that.’ And that actually was sort of it.”

Grammer joined Danson’s classic sitcom in Season 3 as Dr. Frasier Crane, who later received his own NBC spinoff series that was recently revived on Paramount+.

The actor admitted to the Post he doesn’t “really know” why Danson did not speak to him after the argument. “Now, maybe what happened for Ted was he stepped away from what might have been a better friendship. Maybe he just had to protect himself,” he speculated.

The former co-stars recently made amends on an episode of Danson and Woody Harrelson’s podcast Where Everybody Knows Your Name, where Danson formally apologized to Grammer.

“It’s stuck in both of our memories,” Danson said on the podcast. “But I feel like, fuck, I don’t know. I missed out on the last 30 years of Kelsey Grammer and I feel like it’s my bad, my doing, and I almost feel like apologizing to you.”

He added, “I apologize to you and me that I sat back, you know, and didn’t, and I really do apologize.”

Speaking to the Post, Grammer had nothing but good things to say about Danson and Harrelson.

“I’ve always thought of him with the most loving kind of remembrance and fondness. Same with Woody,” he said. “I mean, you know, Woods and I have actually stayed in touch a bit more than Ted and I have. That’s still an active sort of friendship. And we were emailing just last week. I don’t see the other boys very much.”

Despite their restored friendship, the Frasier star insisted there was no Cheers reboot or revival in the works, noting it “reflects a time in our sort of culture that doesn’t really exist anymore.”

“Cheers will not come back,” he said. “I mean, Jimmy Burrows has always said, ‘No, that bar doesn’t exist anymore.’”