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Rebecca Gayheart has opened up about one thing intensely private and really painful.
Seven months after Eric Dane instructed the world that he had been identified with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), his estranged spouse — with whom he shares daughters Billie, 15, and Georgia, 13 — mirrored on their household dynamic amid this extraordinarily difficult chapter.
“I’m making an attempt to point out them that we present up for individuals it doesn’t matter what,” Rebecca defined on the November 17 version of the Broad Concepts with Rachel Bilson and Olivia Allen podcast.
“He’s our household. He’s your father. We present up, and we attempt to do it with some dignity and a few grace and simply get via it. We’ll get via it the perfect we will.”
In 2018, Gayheart filed for divorce from the Gray’s Anatomy alum — however in March 2025, she dismissed the divorce submitting.
Lower than a month after she filed this dismissal, Dane revealed that he was identified with the aforementioned illness.
“I’m grateful to have my loving household by my aspect as we navigate this subsequent chapter,” he instructed Individuals Journal on the time.
We later realized that Dane solely has one functioning arm.
“It’s tremendous sophisticated for me,” Gayheart continued on this podcast. “We’ve been separated for eight years. The children dwell with me 100% of the time. There’s been plenty of different stuff. I’m making an attempt to remain optimistic, although, about all of it.”
It’s sophisticated, but in addition necessary as a guardian, Gayheart causes.
“I don’t know if I’m doing it nicely or if I’m doing it within the fallacious means or the best means,” she mentioned. “I’m simply displaying up. I’m displaying up and I’m making an attempt to be there for them. I assume time will inform.”
ALS is an incurable neurological illness that assaults the nerve cells within the mind and spinal wire. As you may think, such a analysis is subsequent to unattainable for teenagers as younger as Billie and Georgia to grapple with and/or comprehend.
“They’re good ladies who’re simply going via so much,” the actress added. “They’re having such advanced emotions about all of it as a result of it’s public. It confuses them.”
Dane is greatest recognized for roles on Gray’s Anatomy, The Final Ship and Euphoria.
“I don’t suppose that is the tip of my story. I don’t really feel like that is the tip of me,” he mentioned in June throughout a Good Morning America interview.
“I really feel lucky that I’m able to proceed working and am wanting ahead to returning to set of Euphoria subsequent week,” Dane mentioned in his unique assertion. “I kindly ask that you simply give my household and I privateness throughout this time.”
Gayheart beforehand mentioned she and Dane are “greatest buddies” and admitted on this podcast that the continuing journey is understandably exhausting for her as nicely.
“I’m positively experiencing development as an individual, as a human being,” the 53-year-old mentioned.
“It’s all very humbling. I feel one piece of this that I hope I’m passing on to my children is the concept that you would be able to present up for somebody and be there for them, however you even have to point out up for your self. That is life. Life, sadly, is simply moments, good and dangerous strung collectively.
“You by no means know what you’re going to get and we must always deal with as we speak as a very big day. This isn’t a gown rehearsal. That is it. No matter we’re doing as we speak, that is our life.”
