“Grey’s Anatomy” Actor Says He Was Fired During Battle With Addiction

The actor Eric Dane, 51 famous for the character Mark Slone in “Grey’s Anatomy “, he stated, in an interview with a podcast, that his departure from the series did not happen by his choice, but rather by the program’s producers themselves. “It wasn’t ceremoniously like, ‘You’re fired.’ It was just ‘you’re not coming back’”, he recalled.

Nicknamed McSteamy In the series, the artist revealed that, at the time he was released, he was struggling with drug and alcohol addiction. Despite this, he does not believe that this was the cause of the dismissal, “although, definitely, [isso] didn’t help,” he said on the Armchair Expert podcast.

Eric Dane said he was sober for “three or four years” before joining Grey’s Anatomy, but relapsed during the 2007 writers’ strike. “If you take the eight years I was on ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ I was fucked up the longest. than sober,” he said. “And that’s when things started to go wrong for me.”

Regarding the real reason for his dismissal in 2012, the actor has a hypothesis: “I was starting to become, like most actors who spend a significant amount of time on a show, you start to become very expensive for the network.” , he said, saying he has no resentment towards those responsible for the series.

In the interview, the actor did not hold back in praising Shonda Rhimes , creator of “Grey’s Anatomy”, which is currently in its 20th season. “She protected us publicly, she protected us privately. I love Shonda Rhimes,” he said.

For Eric Dane to leave the series, his character Mark Slone died in a plane crash in season 9. Just a month later, the actor was already announced in another series, “The Last Ship” where it stayed for five seasons.

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