Katherine Heigl will always remember her former Gray’s Anatomy costar Eric Dane after his tragic demise at 53.
“I debated this put up for days. I’ve by no means been snug grieving publicly,” Heigl, 47, wrote through Instagram on Sunday, February 22. “I share my tears, my tales and my reminiscences with these I’m closest to and, extra occasions than not, I share them solely with the heavens alone. However that silence can usually appear like an absence of care which I couldn’t abide right here.”
She continued, “Rebecca, Billie, Georgia … There may be so little, if in reality something, one can say a few tragic loss like yours. All of the ‘I’m sorries’ and ‘my prayers are with you’ ring a bit hole within the midst of a lot ache and grief.”
Us Weekly confirmed on Thursday, February 19, that Dane died after a battle with ALS. He’s survived by his two daughters, whom he shared with Rebecca Gayheart.
“I’ll say the one factor that has ever introduced me peace once I’ve misplaced somebody I like,” Heigl wrote in her social media tribute. “It’s Robert Frost’s poem ‘Nothing Gold Can Keep,’ of which I’ve tattooed on my physique in my dad or mum’s handwriting, so I’ll always remember that the second of gold was price it. ‘Nature’s first inexperienced is gold, her hardest hue to carry. Her early leaf’s a flower; however solely so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, so Daybreak goes all the way down to day. Nothing gold can keep.’”
Heigl additional revealed that Dane was akin to “gold” within the 1923 poem.
“I’ll always remember Eric’s gold and I’ll endlessly be grateful I bought to delight in it for even a quick second in time,” she concluded. “Thanks for sharing him with us. God Velocity my previous pal, right here’s to your subsequent nice journey.”
Dane and Heigl costarred on ABC’s Gray’s Anatomy as Dr. Mark “McSteamy” Sloan and Dr. Izzie Stevens, respectively. Dane appeared on the medical drama from seasons 2 to eightwhereas OG solid member Heigl left after season 6.
“We’re deeply saddened by the lack of Eric Dane,” an announcement from ABC and twentieth Tv learn earlier this week. “His outstanding expertise and unforgettable presence on Gray’s Anatomy left a long-lasting impression on audiences world wide, and his braveness and beauty throughout his battle with ALS impressed so many. Our hearts are together with his household, buddies and colleagues, in addition to the numerous followers whose lives had been touched by his work.”
Forward of his demise, Dane was lengthy grateful to have acted on Gray’s for therefore a few years.
“I’m happy with (my profession). All of it bought me to the place I’m immediately,” Dane stated in his Well-known Final Phrases interviewwhich premiered on Netflix hours after his demise. “There was a ton of expertise in there. Life expertise, private, skilled. I feel once I actually tried to be good and approached the craft with a certain quantity of effort and focus that I used to be able to doing a little fairly good work.”

