Eric Dane, the first public release after Sla diagnosis: on the red carpet, hand in hand with his girlfriend Jannell Shirtcliff

Last April the actor Eric Danefor all the Dr. Mark Sloan Of Grey’s Anatomyhad revealed: I am sick of SLA». Then a few days ago, guest of Good Morning America, The fifty -two -year -old had provided tears, in tears, not very comforting updates on his health: «The right side of my body no longer works, I believe that in a few months I will also lose the accident». Despite the disease, Eric has never stopped working. So much that he just has paraded in Los Angeles on the red carpet of the premiere of Countdown, TV series in which the character Nathan Blythe plays: “I will go on until the wheels are broken,” said the actor to the journalists present at the evening. Adding: “Work keeps me awake, it makes me go on.” With him, on the red carpet, there was the girlfriend director Jannell Shirtcliff. The two, all smiling, trod the red carpet holding hands.

Eric and Jannell would have been together for some time, however there have been numerous ups and downs among them: «They have had a fluctuating relationship for over three years “declared a source close to the actor a Entertainment Tonight“But they keep us very much to each other.” And in this delicate period, “you are very present” in his life: “Eric after ALS’s diagnodes asked her to stay next to him. And more united than ever».

Dane can count on the support of the girlfriend but also on that of the ex -wife Rebecca Gayheartfrom which he had two daughters: Billie Beatrice, 15 years old, and Georgia Geraldine, 13 years old. Rebeccathat Eric married in 2014, after Sla diagnosis he had asked for the cancellation of their divorcepresented in 2018 and never became official. “When things get more difficult, I turn to my wife. I call Rebecca, talk to her every day. We managed to become best friends and the best parentsshe is my greatest supporter. I rely on her, “the actor told in recent days. In short, among the spouses, there was no return of flame. So much so that Dane has just paraded on the red carpet, all smiling, with his girlfriend Jannell Shirtcliff.

On the other hand Eric, despite the disease, continues to hope: “I don’t think this is the end of my storyI don’t feel, in my heart, that this is my end. I am fighting with all my strength, but there are many things out of my control“, He said in recent days. Adding that in this difficult period it is “angry»Just because he would like to be present as long as possible in the life of his daughters:« My father was taken to me when I was little. Now there are good chances that I will be taken away by my daughters, which are still small».