Eric Dane Reveals the Real Reason Behind His ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Exit

Eric Dane, who performed one of many many major characters killed off of Gray’s Anatomy via the years, has opened up in an interview with Dax Shephard‘s Armchair Knowledgeable about his departure from the present and what might have precipitated it.

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“I didn’t go away a lot as I feel I used to be let go,” he mentioned, including that he was “struggling” with drug and alcoholic dependancy on the time. “They didn’t let me go due to that, though it positively didn’t assist,” he clarified.

Finally, he believes he was written off the medical drama for costing ABC an excessive amount of cash. “I used to be beginning to grow to be, as most of those actors who’ve spent important time on the present, you begin to grow to be very costly for the community,” he mentioned. “And the community is aware of that the present goes to do what it’s going to do regardless of who they carry on it—so long as they’ve their Gray they had been effective.”

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Elaborating on his way of thinking on the time of his exit, Dane informed Shephard, “I wasn’t the identical man that they had employed, so I had understood once I was let go and Shonda [Rhimes] was actually nice,” he mentioned. “She protected us fiercely. She protected us publicly, she protected us privately…I like Shonda Rhimes and he or she protected me however I used to be in all probability fired. It wasn’t ceremoniously like ‘You’re fired’ it was similar to ‘You’re not coming again.’”

Dane shared that he had been sober for “three or 4 years” by the point he was forged on the present, however that he relapsed after the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike.

“When you take the entire eight years I used to be on Gray’s Anatomy, I used to be f—-d up longer than I used to be sober and that was when issues began going sideways for me,” he mentioned.

Dane performed Dr. Mark Sloan (aka McSteamy) on the present from Seasons 2 via 8, though it wouldn’t be confirmed till the Season 9 premiere that his character was going to die as a consequence of accidents from the airplane crash that capped off Season 8. It was a traditional (learn: bananas) Gray’s departure, and now we all know extra about why it went down.

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