Eric Dane Recalled Telling Rebecca Gayheart About His ALS Prognosis in His Memoir

Rebecca Gayheart was the primary individual Eric Dane known as after receiving his ALS analysis.

In the upcoming posthumous memoir My Book of Days, Eric wrote about reaching out to his estranged spouse proper after getting the information. The actor handed away in February 2026.

“I say to Rebecca on the cellphone, ‘It’s what we feared.’ I don’t bear in mind a single phrase I stated after that,” he wrote, in line with an excerpt revealed by People.

He in contrast getting the information to “getting the wind knocked out of me,” and when he advised Rebecca she started “wailing on the opposite finish of the cellphone.”

At that time, Eric revealed he broke down and cried.

“My sobs make my physique shudder, and I hear her phrases pouring out amid her tears, ‘I’m right here, we’ll struggle this collectively, I’m not going anyplace,’” he stated.

The Grey’s Anatomy alum was decided to struggle it for his or her daughters, Billie, 16, and Georgia, 14.

“I’m going to take this on. I’m going to struggle. I’m going to indicate my ladies how you can stroll via this life with grace and dignity, it doesn’t matter what. I’m going to FIGHT,” he wrote. “This has turn out to be my function. My cause. This is now my job.”

Also in his memoir, he revealed why he was really let go from Grey’s Anatomy.

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