Kelsey Grammer Gets Choked Up On The View Discussing Brutal Murder of Sister, Whom He Says He Spoke to Through a Medium

Kelsey Grammer fought back tears on Thursday as he described his grief over the brutal murder of his sister.

Grammer joined The View to promote his new book Karen: A Brother Remembers, which focuses on the death of his sister Karen and his own grieving process over the years. Grammer’s sister was raped and murdered in Colorado in 1975. She was stabbed 42 times and died just two weeks before her 19th birthday.

Grammer, known for his Frasier role and as one of Hollywood’s more outspoken conservatives, said he read the police report about his sister’s death for the first time while researching the book and found out unfortunate details about his sister’s final moments.

He said:

I’d always had this idea the fellow that found Karen actually kind of helped her, comforted her and tried to, you know, make her life better. Apparently, he did not do that and called the cops and just said, ‘there’s a body out by my front porch. Come and get it.’ That was disappointing to me because I thought that someone had been kind at least, at least tried. That’s my own hope for humanity and yeah, humanity lets us down sometimes. It’s okay.

Grammer said he hopes his book helps others grieving be able to make their lost loved ones “vibrant” again.

“The barbarity and cruelty of that night, part of my mission or my hope is that someone might — who has been grieving in their lives over something similar would find a way through my own course with this and maybe find a way to have their grief, which is forever, square up a little more with the joy you had,” he said.

As the actor described his own grieving process, he fought back tears.

I spent my whole life putting Karen in that horrible night, in that horrible place…” he said, pausing to compose himself. “Where I saw her and identified her body and I couldn’t let that image go. The book helped me do that and so now she lives again.”

Earlier in the show, Grammer revealed he was inspired to write the book after he felt his sister contact him through a medium and tell him to “tell her story.”

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