Kelsey Grammer’s actress daughter Spencer was slashed in the arm at an East Village restaurant Friday night — when she and a pal bravely confronted a blade-wielding drunk who then turned his weapon on them, multiple law enforcement sources told The Post Saturday.
The mayhem erupted at around 11:30 p.m. at The Black Ant on Second Avenue, where a man, who appeared intoxicated, tried to get a table at the cozy eatery. He was rebuffed because the restaurant was about to close — sending him into a dyspeptic tailspin, multiple sources and bystanders said.
The drunk wouldn’t leave the restaurant, and instead began fighting with a male diner, who picked up a chair and began swinging it — and soon, more than a dozen employees and onlookers joined in the al-fresco free-for-all.
Grammer, 36, a voiceover actor on Adult Swim’s “Rick and Morty” cartoon, and her friend, Jan Phillip Mueller, 32, were there at that time and not involved in the argument, but rushed to defuse the situation anyway — even as the drunken man started swinging what one law enforcement source called “a silver blade.”
“Everyone jumped out of their seats. About 15 people maybe. Everyone was trying to pull them apart,” a witness named David told The Post of the drunk and the chair-swinging diner.
“It looked like there was a full-on brawl.”
In the chaos, the assailant slashed Grammer in the right forearm, and her pal Mueller across the back, multiple police sources said.
Both were taken to Bellevue Hospital, where they were treated for their injuries and released, police said.
A police report indicates both received stitches at Bellevue Hospital, a law-enforcement source said.
“First I heard yelling,” said David, whose windows overlook the sidewalk where the melee broke out.
Looking out his window, he saw the two men fighting — the angry drunk and the diner who was swinging a chair and swearing loudly, David told The Post.
David said a waitress later told him that a racial slur, shouted by the chair-swinging diner, appeared to have really set the drunk off.
“Some people got up to try to separate them,” David said of the two combatants.
“Some surrounded the guy with the chair, and some surrounded the stabber, before he became a stabber,” David said.
“At one point a table got knocked over. Everyone jumped out of their seats — about 15 people maybe. Everyone was trying to pull them apart.”
Screams of “Stop! Stop!” rose from the scrum.
“One guy was trying to restrain the stabber,” David said of Grammer’s courageous pal.
“Then I saw blood coming out of the lower right hand side of his back. I saw enough blood coming out to tell that something was going on,” he said of his decision to then call 911.
Meanwhile, other customers managed to wrestle the blade-swinging drunk to the ground, “but he was really well built, so he got away.”
The police arrived within a minute of his 911 call, David said, but the slasher, described as buff, bald and wearing a white shirt, and who may have had a female companion — had already fled on Third Street. Cops don’t believe the attacker was homeless, sources said.
Dried blood remained Saturday afternoon outside The Black Ant, whose dinner entrees include $24 rabbit enchiladas and $27 braised pork cheeks.
“I’ve been quarantining outside of the city and had just gotten back, and there is a stabbing outside of my apartment,” David said. “This is my welcome back to New York.”
Grammer, who also portrayed Casey Cartwright on “Greek,” the ABC Family college dramedy, did not answer the door at her nearby East Village pad on Saturday.
“Frasier” star Kelsey Grammer downplayed his daughter’s injury on Saturday, saying through a spokesman: “There are elements of truth to the story but Spencer was not slashed; she is fine.”
Additional reporting by Laura Italiano, Dean Balsamini and Sara Dorn