KELSEY GRAMMER DRUGS, MURDER & A FAMILY CURSE

Fifty years later, the star is purging his pain

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Three years ago, Kelsey Grammer claims an English psychic medium named Esther came through with a message from his sister Karen “from the other side”.

“She said, ‘Karen wants you to tell her story.’ And I’m like, ‘Heavens, OK...’ And after about 20 pages of jotting down things I thought, ‘Oh, I’m supposed to write a book.”

Karen: A Brother Remembers tells the tale of the actor’s 18-year-old sister’s murder in 1975.

“I got to be with her alive again. To mourn Karen with nobility and praise for her was something I was meant to do,” says the 70-year-old Frasier star of his new memoir.

The actor admits he’s been haunted by Karen’s brutal kidnap, rape and murder in Colorado at the hands of serial killer Freddie Glenn and two accomplices, while he was studying acting in New York. It eventually spilled over into self-destructive behaviour at the height of his TV fame in the 1990s.