A few months ago, Eric Dane revealed that he has ALS, a disease that slowly paralyzes your whole body until eventually you die from it. It is an awful way to go because your body can’t move, but your mind is still working as it was before you were diagnosed.
Since his diagnosis, Dane has not done any interviews. Today, he opened up to Good Morning America’s Diane Sawyer about how his life has changed in the last year and a half when he started experiencing symptoms.
At first, his hand started to go numb. He went to a hand doctor, and then another one, who sent him to a neurologist, who sent him to another one. After nine months, he finally heard the three letters he never wanted to hear. He was told he has ALS.
Since then, he has lost the use of his right arm, which is his dominant side. For the time being, he has use of his left arm, but it is starting to go. And he is afraid that that arm will go in a few months.
But that is not what scares him most. It is leaving his daughters, Billie, 15, and Georgia, 13, without a father at a young age. The actor lost his father to suicide at 7, so he knows what it is like to grow up without one.
“I mean, I really, at the end of the day, just, all I want to do is spend time with my family and work a little bit if I can,” he said, later telling Sawyer, “I don’t think this is the end of my story. I just don’t feel like, in my heart, I don’t feel like this is the end of me.*
And it is not the end of his acting. He is filming season 3 of Euphoria and is starring in Prime Video’s Countdown, which premieres on the 25th.
