Camille Grammer: 'I Have Learned To Forgive Kelsey'

Camille Grammer has finally forgiven ex-husband Kelsey Grammer after their messy split.

“I had to go to hell to get to heaven,” the 43-year-old reality star said in a Hollywood Life interview that was posted on Tuesday. "At times I didn’t think I had it in me, but I do. When Kelsey left me, here I was this single mom with two kids. I was terrified. Of course I had help and the support of my family, but it was still very scary.”

The pair split in February 2011 after 14 years of marriage and two children together. Kelsey allegedly left Camille for flight attendant Kayte Walsh, who he'd go on to marry in February 2011. The "Frasier" star, who has called Camille's TV career his ""parting gift" to her, announced in January that he and Walsh are expecting twins.

Camille has since moved on with boyfriend Dimitri Charalambopoulos and told Hollywood Life that she's learned to forgive Kelsey with the help of a surprising confidante.

"I have learned to forgive Kelsey and have appreciation,” she explained. “Forgiveness and gratitude are so important. If you don’t forgive, it will eat you up and make you sick. I read a lot of books on forgiveness and went to a spiritual psychologist. Actually my spiritual psychologist is Tammi, one of Kelsey’s ex-fiancées," Camille said, referring to self-help author Tammi Baliszewski, who was engaged to Grammer in the '90s.

Camille isn't the first celeb to bounce back after divorce. Click through the slideshow below to see eight others.

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Martha Stewart was originally a stock broker before she and her now ex-husband, Andrew Stewart, decided to move to Connecticut to restore an 1805 farmhouse. There, she started a successful catering business that garnered her a cookbook deal; her first book, "Entertaining" became a New York Times bestseller. She penned multiple books including "Martha Stewart's Quick Cook" (1983), "Martha Stewart's Hors D'oeuvres" (1984), and "Weddings" (1987), before she and her husband split in 1989. One year after her divorce, she created a magazine, Martha Stewart Living, for which she served as editor-in-chief. She rapidly expanded to radio and television, prompting New York Magazine to name her "the definitive American woman of our time" in 1995. Two years later, she launched Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, a consolidation of the various television, print, and merchandising ventures related to the Martha Stewart brand. Sure, being incarcerated in 2005 for securities fraud wasn't a high point, but she launched a comeback upon her release and created the Emmy-nominated daytime talk show, "The Martha Stewart Show."

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Martha Stewart was originally a stock broker before she and her now ex-husband, Andrew Stewart, decided to move to Connecticut to restore an 1805 farmhouse. There, she started a successful catering business that garnered her a cookbook deal; her first book, "Entertaining" became a New York Times bestseller. She penned multiple books including "Martha Stewart's Quick Cook" (1983), "Martha Stewart's Hors D'oeuvres" (1984), and "Weddings" (1987), before she and her husband split in 1989. One year after her divorce, she created a magazine, Martha Stewart Living, for which she served as editor-in-chief. She rapidly expanded to radio and television, prompting New York Magazine to name her "the definitive American woman of our time" in 1995. Two years later, she launched Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, a consolidation of the various television, print, and merchandising ventures related to the Martha Stewart brand. Sure, being incarcerated in 2005 for securities fraud wasn't a high point, but she launched a comeback upon her release and created the Emmy-nominated daytime talk show, "The Martha Stewart Show."

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[MelanieMorgasm]

05:11 PM on 05/17/2012

annette bening has a gay/transgender kid so obviously she no role model of a mother

[msperry1123]

04:47 PM on 05/17/2012

LOL, I'm sure the big bucks and very cute new boyfriend helped wash away all of the resentment.

[WSAY]

01:18 AM on 05/17/2012

Wow. What a "Confession!"

[dvizzyv]

01:38 PM on 05/16/2012

50 million reasons to forgive....

[sdave]

07:30 PM on 05/16/2012

Yeah, definitely takes away the sting of divorce......

[Edogg62]

12:51 PM on 05/16/2012

"When Kelsey left me, here I was this single mom with two kids. I was terrified. Of course I had help and the support of my family, but it was still very scary.”

Ha ha ha. "I wondered... just how will I make it on 50 million!!"

Not bad for a former Club MTV stripper... oh sorry, "dancer" and soft-core porn actress. Ha ha ha.

[Okey Umez]

07:14 PM on 05/16/2012

No such thing as soft-core porn. Either you're in or you're out.

[Cathey Writes]

11:46 AM on 05/16/2012

She is happy with her new guy. Wonderful!

You don't have to forgive someone though when they have been cruel to you. You can acknowledge the hurt and resolve not to let it keep you prisoner to pain and turn away from it but not have to say "Its okay you did that".....cause that is nuts. It is not authentic and not going to serve you or them.

[Rallen99]

11:24 AM on 05/16/2012

Congratulations on your successful trip from hell to heaven. Now you can live happily (and quietly) everafter with your children and new boyfriend.

[msoverall]

10:09 AM on 05/16/2012

They have children, she has to deal with him for the rest of her life, good for her.

[Ian Llangan]

08:11 PM on 05/15/2012

If Camille is really only 43 (ha!) then I'm really only 43 too.

[intellifran]

08:16 AM on 05/16/2012

She really is. She doesn't have to justify her age to you or anyone else.

[Ian Llangan]

09:10 AM on 05/16/2012

Oh honey. Pleeeze. There is more botox, silicone and Juvederm® in that face than in most plastic surgery clinics' medicine cabinets. If she's not over 43 then she is NOT aging well. Unless you're her mother and you gave birth to her, my fingers are in my ears and I'm singing la-la-la-la-la-I-can't-hear-you....