By Julia Crumpleman
HONOLULU – Actor Kelsey Grammer was hospitalized today
after falling down into a cave on the island of Oahu. No major injuries were reported.
The actor best known for portraying the role of Dr.
Frasier Crane on Cheers and Frasier for twenty years was on a hike
with his wife and friends when he slipped and fell. Grammer, who maintains a residence in Hawaii,
suffered a heart attack in 2008, and he’s been taking hikes to maintain his
health. But this fall was not what the
doctor ordered.
“We were just hiking along this path near his house,”
said Mark Platt, one of Grammer’s companions.
“We’ve been on this trail several times, actually, but we took a fork
that was new to all of us, and that’s when Kelsey just slipped and fell down
some rocks.”
Platt was able to find a safer route to the cave and
found that Grammer only fell about thirty feet.
Grammer was lying on the ground, staring at a statue that Platt
described as “the Tiki idol from the Brady Bunch Hawaii episodes”. Platt apparently had to snap Grammer back to
reality and helped him out of the cave.
Despite some bumps and bruises, Grammer is expected to
make a full recovery and will be able to return home soon.
