The actor Eric Dane shared tender phrases about estranged spouse Rebecca Gayheart in one of many last interviews he gave earlier than dying final week of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at age 53.
Along with the shifting message he wrote to his two daughters, the “Gray’s Anatomy” alum stated he had a particular place in his coronary heart for Gayheart, whom he had been separated from since 2018.
“Properly, we nonetheless love one another deeply,” he instructed interviewer Brad Falchuk final November on “Well-known Final Phrases,” the Netflix documentary collection of interviews with notable cultural figures granted on the situation that they are going to be aired posthumously. The episode that includes his interview was launched Friday, the day after his dying.
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Eric Dane, left, and Brad Falchuk in an episode of “Well-known Final Phrases.” (Netflix by way of AP)
“I simply suppose we don’t wish to stay with one another,” he continued with a chuckle. “However there’s a whole lot of love there. I’ll by no means, by the point anyone sees this, have fallen in love with one other lady as deeply as I fell in love with Rebecca. She’s the mom of my youngsters.”
He recalled assembly Gayheart for the primary time and telling her pal, “I’m gonna marry that woman,” and being knowledgeable that Gayheart would by no means depart her fiancé, whom she’d been with since they had been 15. Someway, although, the pair’s “natural and fortuitous” assembly panned out.
They married in 2004. After 14 years of marriage and two daughters — Billie, now 15, and Georgia, 14 — Gayheart filed for divorce in 2018. However she rescinded the petition in March 2025, a number of weeks earlier than Dane introduced his ALS prognosis.
They remained shut mates, and Gayheart dedicated herself to supporting him and their youngsters by way of the course of his sickness.
Dane, additionally identified for the HBO collection “Euphoria,” died final Thursday of ALS, the motor neuron sickness often known as Lou Gehrig’s illness, lower than a yr after being recognized. Tributes have poured in nonstop, and an on-line funding drive for his daughters had reached $314,000 by Sunday evening.
Gayheart spoke out briefly on Sunday, saying in her Instagram tales that she was overwhelmed and grateful.
“I’m so blown away by the outpouring of affection and assist from our neighborhood,” she wrote. “There aren’t phrases to specific our gratitude. You might be really holding us up throughout this troublesome time.”
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