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On Feb. 19, Eric Dane’s household announced that the beloved histrion — known for his iconic roles successful shows similar Grey’s Anatomy and Euphoria — has died astatine property 53, little than a twelvemonth aft helium shared his amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) diagnosis with the satellite successful April 2025.
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ALS, sometimes referred to arsenic Lou Gehrig’s illness oregon centrifugal neurone disease, impacts nervus cells successful the encephalon and spinal cord, starring to progressive paralysis of the muscles. ALS causes patients to gradually suffer the quality to walk, speak, eat, and respire independently, portion their cognitive abilities stay intact. There is presently nary known cure.
"He spent his last days surrounded by beloved friends, his devoted wife, and his 2 beauteous daughters, Billie and Georgia, who were the halfway of his world," the connection from his loved ones read. "Throughout his travel with ALS, Eric became a passionate advocator for consciousness and research, determined to marque a quality for others facing the aforesaid fight."
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“He volition beryllium profoundly missed, and lovingly remembered always,” the connection concluded. “Eric adored his fans and is everlastingly grateful for the outpouring of emotion and enactment he’s received.”
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As mentioned successful the family’s message, Eric recovered it incredibly important to speech openly astir his ALS journey, and, aft sharing his diagnosis, gave interviews astir his health. “It's imperative that I stock my travel with arsenic galore radical arsenic I tin due to the fact that I don't consciousness similar my beingness is astir maine anymore,” helium said astatine an I AM ALS sheet past year.
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“I marque definite that radical are alert of what ALS is and what it's about, and much importantly, what we tin bash to combat it and amended the landscape, due to the fact that it's truthful rocky and littered with hurdles and bureaucracy and each this different nonsense that we're trying to sift done truthful we tin get to a spot wherever we go, commencement moving connected solution,” helium said.
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Now, successful the aftermath of his death, Eric’s fans are revisiting immoderate of his post-diagnosis interviews, and this peculiar punctuation astir his teenage daughters — 15-year-old Billie and 13-year-old Georgia, whom helium shares with his wife, Rebecca Gayheart — has breached people’s hearts.
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Back successful June, successful his first TV interview aft sharing his diagnosis, Eric was asked by Diane Sawyer however "angry" the unwellness made him feel. In response, the histrion talked astir his ain dad, who died erstwhile helium was 7 years old. "My begetter was taken from maine erstwhile I was young," helium said, "and present there’s a precise bully accidental that I’m going to beryllium taken from my girls portion they’re precise young."
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He continued: "I mean, I really, astatine the extremity of the day, just, each I privation to bash is walk clip with my household and enactment a small spot if I can. I don’t deliberation this is the extremity of my story. I conscionable don’t consciousness like, successful my heart, I don’t consciousness similar this is the extremity of me."
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This circumstantial interview clip has been circulating on X since Eric’s death, and radical are heartbroken by the cruelty of it all.
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"Eric Dane saying the worst happening astir this is his girls losing him truthful aboriginal successful their lives the mode helium mislaid his ain dad. Life is truthful unfair," work 1 X post with implicit 70,000 likes astatine the clip of writing.
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"the cruelest portion of losing a genitor young is that you walk the remainder of your beingness trying to support your ain kids from the nonstop coiled you carry. and knowing you can't," different idiosyncratic wrote. "he lived his full beingness with that lack and his biggest fearfulness was his daughters feeling it too."
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"Eric Dane having 2 teenage daughters makes maine truthful sad, cipher deserves to spot their genitor dilatory diminution particularly erstwhile you’re truthful young," echoed someone else, calling it "the worst feeling ever."
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