{"id":2291273,"date":"2026-02-20T17:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2291273"},"modified":"2026-02-20T17:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:00:08","slug":"patrick-dempsey-recalls-eric-danes-final-days-mutual-respect-as-greys-anatomy-co-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/patrick-dempsey-recalls-eric-danes-final-days-mutual-respect-as-greys-anatomy-co-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Dempsey Recalls Eric Dane\u2019s Final Days, \u201cMutual Respect\u201d as \u2018Grey\u2019s Anatomy\u2019 Co-Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Patrick Dempsey<\/a> has opened up about the last days for Eric Dane<\/a> before his longtime friend and Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/a> co-star lost a battle with Als on Feb. 19.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was corresponding with him, we were texting, so I spoke to him about a week ago and some friends of ours went in to see him, and he was really starting to lose his ability to speak. He was bedridden and it was very hard for him to swallow, so the quality of his life was deteriorating so rapidly,\u201d Dempsey<\/a> told The Chris Evans Breakfast Show on Virgin Radio UK<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n

Dane played the role of plastic surgeon Mark \u201cMcSteamy\u201d Sloan during an eight-year run on the ABC drama, while Dempsey performed the role of neurosurgeon Derek Shepherd<\/a>, also known as \u201cMcDreamy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was the funniest man \u2014 he was such a joy to work with and I want to just remember…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Patrick Dempsey has opened up about the last days for Eric Dane before his longtime friend and Grey\u2019s Anatomy co-star lost a battle with Als on Feb. 19. \u201cI was corresponding with him, we were texting, so I spoke to him about a week ago and some friends of ours went in to see him, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2291274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2291273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Patrick-Dempsey-Recalls-Eric-Danes-Final-Days-Mutual-Respect-as.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2291273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2291275,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291273\/revisions\/2291275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2291274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2291273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2291273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}