"People try to connect dots 'I saw these people here, I saw them there' but during the hardest time of getting my feet back on the ground and going through the process of my divorce, I'll bet we went six months without a conversation, because it wasn't his life, and I felt the same way (when he was going through his divorce)."
She knows people will speculate that her relationship with Gill caused the breakup of her marriage, Grant says, but the circumstances were multilayered and complicated. She will concede that the friendship may have hastened what might have been inevitable anyway.
But there are no answers to the questions raised by the course of events.
"You can't say how it would have been if it had been different, because all you know is how it is," she reasons.
Just as frankly, Grant says that, now that she is divorced, Gill remains "hands down, slam dunk, my best friend" for male companionship.
Repeated attempts were made to reach Gill for comment on the relationship.
It feels silly, Grant says, for a 38-year-old woman and a 42-year- old man with professional and domestic responsibilities to say they're dating, though some of the things they've done, like the hockey game, would qualify.
"I just want to enjoy his company," she says. "Is that the kind of thing that the natural conclusion is that eventually these two people will wind up together and grow old together? I hope so.
"But do I understand the timetable for that? No."
It's easier to chart the forward progress of her professional timetable.
On Sept. 26, Grant made her acting debut in a CBS movie of the week, A Song from the Heart, about a blind cellist. The movie did well, finishing second for the night behind a Saturday Night Live retrospective. For the week it finished at No. 19 overall.
Entertainment trade papers Daily Variety and Hollywood Reporter both gave Grant good notices for her performance, and more scripts have come flooding in.
On Dec. 4, Grant will be the host of her own CBS Christmas special, A Christmas to Remember. Special guests 98 Degrees and Tony Bennett have been confirmed so far. The show will be shot on location in Banff, Canada, beginning Nov. 1, and is the first of what all parties hope will be at least a three-year run.
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