Camille Grammer To Drop Ex-Husband's Last Name?

The most talked-about Real Housewife of all time, Camille Grammer, wants to move on from her ugly divorce with Kelsey Grammer, which also means dumping his last name.

"For the time being, it just makes things easier to keep the name," Camille tells me. "I'm going through this divorce and my kids' last names are Grammer. So to do all the paperwork and changing names for insurance and school and everything, it's just easier. After everything is settled, I may go back to Donatacci."

Having been a Grammer for 16 years, Camille has incredible pain talking about her ex, who left her for another woman. It doesn't help that the former couple is still involved in an ugly battle over finances and child custody that Camille Grammer says is costing a fortune in legal fees.

"It's gone on too long," she laments. "The lawyers are taking all of our money. I would love for the two of us to figure it all out, but unfortunately my ex files for 100 percent custody and he's going to keep that going. I have offered over and over again 50-50 custody. I think that is really fair, and people fight to get to that, but he's going to keep continuing with legal action. You [Kelsey] have moved on and now let me move on."

But Camille says she won't be able to begin to move on until the legal issues are resolved.

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Comments

[msharvie]

01:25 PM on 01/17/2012

Quit being a ego maniac Kelsey and talk to your kids first before you talk to the press. This is not the way a good father behaves.

[bogey1]

11:30 AM on 01/14/2012

she needs to drop her plastic surgeon

she looks like a lizard

[mairs]

11:21 AM on 01/14/2012

I'm not a Camille fan, but trying to take the kids completely away from her is extremely cruel. What, is he going to have his mistress/wife raise them for him?

[jfjharrisontq]

09:08 PM on 01/13/2012

yeah it is time...let it go....its time and not worth holding on to a name of man your not with.

[mcc1cam]

08:30 PM on 01/13/2012

Camille, keep his last name...it will drive him nuts every time it's mentioned, and it's not about him!

[rewith85man]

08:13 PM on 01/13/2012

She can always share my last name.

[grandmaof9]

05:25 PM on 01/13/2012

I used to like Kelsey, but now I rank him along with Newt Gingrich, Clinton. Either he is demanding 100% control of his kids as a show for you and me and the kids, and/or he is trying to bankrupt his vulnerable wife. Cruel either way.

[helenaivy]

03:39 PM on 01/13/2012

Kelsey seems like a real creep. His new wife having to lay under him is karma. He's ick.

[rrh353]

01:43 PM on 01/13/2012

Good for her. She's moving on, and Kelsey Grammer is all over TV talking about how blissfully happy he is with his new wife. What a jerk.

[jfjharrisontq]

09:13 PM on 01/13/2012

Come on now, if he wasnt Kelsey Grammer would she have even noticed him, lets be honest.
All the same WE woman have to just let go...its hard but it happens after time.

[mkatt]

10:35 AM on 01/13/2012

No matter who you are, if you choose to move away from where the kids are being raised, you essentially forfeit your right to custody. There are always extenuating circumstances where it could be different, but generally, children in a divorce situation need to stay in a familiar environment with their friends, school, and community. If you want to be involved in raising your children, post-divorce, stay put.

[msperry1123]

09:38 AM on 01/13/2012

Kelsey Grammer turns my stomach. He began an affair with someone half his age and didn't have the guts to tell Camille, making her think he was in NY only to do a play. For him to then try and get full custody and drag his kids across the country to live HIS new life is just obnoxious. I like Camille, she's been far more gracious about this than I would have been.

[Ralph Hunter]

07:09 AM on 01/13/2012

the idea that women should "take' their husband's last name is antiquated and unequal. It's just a custom, not legally required and not done in europe for instance. i didnt and never will, and our marriage is solid and been going for 30 plus years. back in the day i just couldn't do it, seemed phony to be changing my "core identity"... my name, while men didn't seem to have to change anything, especially not their core identity. like a magic fairy hit you with a wand and you became someone else? in this day and age this discussion is a throwback to the 1950's. quit being a stepford wife camille and dump the name. The change over with kid's school, driver's license is not that big a deal. is your reluctance really that, or that no one will know who camille donatacci is?

[jp1850]

05:26 AM on 01/13/2012

Without his name, she's another no-name loser in the housewives franchise.

[rukiddingmerightnow]

11:15 AM on 01/13/2012

And worth at least $20 million. She'll do just fine.

[rewith85man]

08:13 PM on 01/13/2012

I'll marry her.

[grandmaof9]

05:34 PM on 01/13/2012

16 year marriage, with a wife that stood by her man while he dried out and got clean, God know how many times, and saw to that his underwear was put back in his drawers clean and fresh. ETC, and she has a name/title, all of which is God given, and it is wife and mother. Kelsey needs to put away his spoiled demanding ego and with some class end this mental grief he is inflicting on his faithful ex-wife and his dear sweet vulnerable children. Wow! can that ego get in the way of civility? An ego can scar more than an ex-wife, it will continue to scar his-so called-children. Imagine their fear, their pain, their unstable consequences if this continues. Why doesn't he care for their sweet dreams going to savage monster dreams?

[belinda poltrino]

02:22 AM on 01/13/2012

Kelsey may be a good actor, but he's an ass in marriage & divorce. He can say what he wants about Camille, and at times she doesn't help her own case, but here's the thing... he cheated on her... they were married. He found someone else while she was waiting on him, and when he found that steady person - he socked it to her! I dont care if that person was biggest pain the butt - you dont cheat - you finish your business - then you move onward. And my question to the lady who inherited him.... does she really think Kelsey wont do it to her??? Really? Once a cheater! Always a cheater!

[jfjharrisontq]

09:16 PM on 01/13/2012

Most of theses good actors are selfish. The works great but their personal lives are crap.

[mairs]

11:27 AM on 01/14/2012

He did it to his first or second wife, can't remember. He was married and started an affair with another woman who got pregnant, just like his current wife did.

[harriettubman]

11:00 PM on 01/12/2012

I don't blame her one bit. Get rid of the name during the divorce. Let him take his bad name with him.