In a secret interview recorded months before Eric Dane’s death, the actor confessed that it was difficult to accept that he would not be there for his daughters at their wedding.
The Euphoria actor, who died Thursday, nearly a year after revealing his ALS diagnosis, appeared in Netflix’s posthumous documentary titled Famous last words.
The 50-minute film was released after Dane’s death, in which the late actor shared his intimate final reflections, including a final farewell to his daughters.
During the conversation with Brad Falchuk, Dane revealed that it was difficult for him to come to terms with not being able to walk down the aisle with his daughters on their big day.
“But at the same time, a big part of me won’t be there for my kids… most likely I won’t be there to walk my kids… walk my girls down the aisle and have grandkids, and that’s hard to deal with,” Dane admitted.
Elsewhere in the interview, Dane, who welcomed his daughters Georgia and Billie with wife Rebecca Gayheart, revealed the most important things to him as a father.
“Well, I think showing up is the most important quality. I haven’t been perfect at that. But I’ve always been there when it mattered,” he said.
On his regrets in life, Dane recalled, “Yeah, well, their mom and I aren’t together anymore. We’re still really best friends, but we’re not together. So because of, you know, just the distance and the fact that we live under separate… in separate houses, a lot of time is lost there.”
“But I’ve made sure I can be there as much as possible, especially when it counts.”
