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Eric Dane Shares ALS Diagnosis arsenic Rebecca Gayheart Gives Marriage Update
Asked precocious astir her ongoing matrimony to Eric Dane, Rebecca Gayheart delivered a decidedly affirmative prognosis.
"We are champion friends," the Jawbreaker histrion detailed to E! News' Francesca Amiker astatine the April 9 screening of the miniseries The Carters: Hurts To Love You successful Los Angeles. "We are truly close. We are large co-parents."
Placing daughters Billie, 15, and Georgia, 13, astatine the forefront, she continued, "We truly figured retired the look to staying a household and I deliberation our kids are benefiting greatly from it and we are arsenic well."
So portion she did determination to extremity her marriage to the Grey's Anatomy alum backmost successful 2018, "I deliberation it’s important to not look astatine a narration that ends arsenic a failure," noted the 53-year-old. "It's conscionable a season. It wasn't a failure. It was a immense success. We were joined for, I mean, we are inactive married, but unneurotic for 15 years and we had 2 beauteous kids truthful I deliberation that's a palmy relationship, and that's however we look astatine it."
Which means, yes, careless of whether they stay romantically involved—Gayheart filed documents March 6 to disregard her divorce from the Euphoria actor, a determination helium besides signed disconnected on—she volition service arsenic a cardinal state successful his conflict with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a.k.a. Lou Gehrig's disease.
"I person been diagnosed with ALS,” Dane recently revealed to People, noting helium plans to proceed moving and volition study to the Euphoria acceptable adjacent week as helium reprises his role arsenic Cal Jacobs for the HBO hit's long-awaited 3rd season. “I americium grateful to person my loving household by my broadside arsenic we navigate this adjacent chapter.”
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And the communicative of his and Gayheart's romance is surely an epic one.
Shortly aft crossing paths successful 2003, the San Francisco native—then known for his two-season stint connected Charmed—and the Kentucky-bred model, who parlayed her occurrence arsenic "The Noxema Girl" into respective soap opera gigs and a recurring relation connected Beverly Hills, 90210, wed successful Las Vegas.
And they mostly kept what happened successful Sin City to themselves.
"It's astir apt 1 of the slightest absorbing stories successful the world," Dane, 52, insisted to Flaunt mag successful 2008. "It went fundamentally similar this: 'You wanna spell out?' 'Yeah, sure.' Ten months later, we were married."
Their union, however, was thing but dull, arsenic evidenced by a steamy portion of the duo and erstwhile Miss Teen USA Kari Ann Peniche that was leaked successful 2009. (The mates aboriginal filed a lawsuit, their rep Marty Singer insisting, "It is simply a backstage portion made for lone my clients' idiosyncratic use, and cipher has the close to exploit it.")
But specified weeks later, the brace had adjacent bigger quality to share, Gayheart showing disconnected her increasing babe bump during a locomotion successful L.A.
Eldest girl Billie made her debut successful March 2010 ("Named aft my father," Dane confirmed during an quality connected Harry Connick Jr.'s speech show, "whether it was a lad oregon a girl, the firstborn was gonna beryllium a Billie") and her younger sister joined the fam 21 months later.
Though the twosome had to navigate their mode done pugnacious times (he concisely checked into a attraction installation for assistance getting disconnected the symptom medicine helium was prescribed pursuing a sports-related wounded and aboriginal took a interruption from his TNT amusement The Last Ship arsenic helium battled depression), fans were stunned erstwhile they announced plans to divorcement successful aboriginal 2018.
"Holding onto my girls choky and loving them hard today," Gayheart shared on Instagram that February. "So galore breached hearts and shattered dreams."
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In the years since, though, they've created a caller imaginativeness for their beingness together.
"There's a caller mean for maine and my family, arsenic you know," she elaborate to People successful 2019. "And it's taken america a small spot to get that down. Not going to lie, it hasn't been easy. But I deliberation what's breathtaking is what's up due to the fact that determination are truthful galore antithetic things that could hap now."
Like, say, a household getaway to St. Tropez and Paris that saw the the foursome accidental bonjour to pizza dinners and days connected the beach.
And past determination was their travel to Mexico conscionable months aboriginal that produced a photograph of the precise affable exes hand-in-hand.
As fans speculate astir conscionable however adjacent the brace are, they've chosen not to accent excessively overmuch implicit dissecting the situation.
"We are friends and we are doing our champion to co-parent and support a family, adjacent though we're not married," she explained to People, noting that they were separated, but inactive legally wed. "And I deliberation we're doing a beauteous bully occupation of it. Life is conscionable good. There are truthful galore breathtaking things happening."
The impervious is successful the pictures. Keep speechmaking to relive the couple's saccharine story.
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2003
Eric Dane and Rebecca Gayheart person ne'er revealed however they archetypal connected, though Dane admitted it's "probably 1 of the slightest absorbing stories successful the world."
"It went fundamentally similar this: 'You wanna spell out?'" helium recalled to Flaunt mag successful 2008. "'Yeah, sure.' Ten months later, we were married."
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October 2004
Less than 1 twelvemonth aft they began dating, the mates exchanged vows successful Las Vegas.
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May 2017
After Dane announced helium was leaving the TNT play The Last Ship due to his conflict with depression, Gayheart took to Instagram to amusement her enactment for her husband.
"Way backmost erstwhile I met my Monday antheral crush," Gayheart captioned a throwback photograph of the couple.
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February 2018
Gayheart cited "irreconcilable differences" arsenic the origin of the couple's divided and sought spousal enactment and associated ineligible and carnal custody of their daughters Billie and Georgia when she filed for divorce.
"After 14 years unneurotic we person decided that ending our matrimony is the champion determination for our family," the duo said successful a associated connection to E! News astatine the time. "We volition proceed our relationship and enactment arsenic a squad to co-parent our 2 beauteous girls arsenic they are the astir important happening successful the satellite to us."
However, the divorcement was ne'er finalized, and Dane revealed that the brace were inactive friends and "great" co-parents when he told Entertainment Tonight in 2019, "We person 2 kids. It's not complicated...it doesn't person to be."
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August 2019
One decennary aft the mates made headlines erstwhile a nude video with erstwhile Miss Teen USA Kari Ann Peniche was published online, Dane addressed the ungraded successful a uncommon interview.
"I often deliberation astir that reply I gave. And looking backmost now, was it a mistake? Absolutely not," helium told Glamour of antecedently describing the incidental arsenic a misstep. "Three consenting adults, 1 of them being my wife? I wasn't doing thing wrong."
He added that his erstwhile comments were "most apt referring to the cause usage that was alluded to successful the video."
"And was that a mistake? Again, I don't needfully deliberation I was breaking immoderate laws and corrupting anybody," the Grey's Anatomy alum said. "We were conscionable 3 radical taking a bath."
"I didn't regret it, I person nary regrets nor bash I marque immoderate apologies for my beingness experience," helium concluded. "It's my beingness acquisition and I'm astatine bid with each of it."
After the portion was published successful 2009, the mates was forced to instrumentality action, and arsenic a result, Dane and Gayheart filed a $1 cardinal copyright infringement against Gawker Media and reportedly settled for upwards of six-figures.
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August 2022
The brace archetypal sparked rumors of a reconciliation erstwhile they jetted disconnected to Europe arsenic a household of four. The Jawbreaker histrion shared snaps from the travel showing Dane making a silly look astatine the camera with their girls.
"This is us," Gayheart captioned the Instagram post. "Family vacay 2022."
In a 2nd pic from their European adventures, the foursome posed unneurotic with large smiles connected the Parisian streets, arsenic she wrote connected the 'gram, "A pit halt successful Paris!"
The radical past made their mode crossed the seashore to St. Tropez, with Gayheart documenting their travel connected her Instagram Stories. "My people," she captioned a drawback of the fam with a friend.
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January 2023
While she filed for divorcement successful 2018, Dane and Gayheart kicked off the New Year as 1 large family.
The Euphoria actor and the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum were photographed walking hand-in-hand disconnected a vessel unneurotic during a abrogation with their 2 daughters.
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March 2025
Gayheart filed to disregard her divorcement petition, 7 years aft submitting the papers.
