Eric Dane Reveals the 5 Words He Told His Daughter Every Day While He Was Living With ALS in Posthumous Memoir
Eric Dane Reveals the 5 Words He Told His Daughter Every Day While He Was Living With ALS in Posthumous Memoir
Juliana UkiomogbeMon, October 19, 2026 at 8:26 PM UTC
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A new excerpt of Eric Dane’s posthumous memoir, My Book of Days: A Memoir in Moments, has been published by Maria Shriver’s TheSunday Paper.
In the brief passage, the late actor revealed the five words he told his 14-year-old daughter, Georgia, while he was living with ALS.
“I say those five words aloud, today, and every day, dictating a text to Georgia, my thirteen-year-old daughter. I speak slowly into my phone, which Cynthia, my nurse, holds up to my mouth,” he wrote.
While Eric Dane was living with ALS, the late actor told his daughter Georgia, 14, five words every single day.
Billie Dane, Eric Dane, and Georgia Dane at the ‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’ premiere on May 30, 2024, in Hollywood.Credit: Getty Images
The Euphoriastar told her, “Good morning, I love you,” according to his forthcoming posthumous memoir My Book of Days: A Memoir in Moments, out on November 3.
In the excerpt published by Maria Shriver’s The Sunday Paper, Dane continued, “I say those five words aloud, today, and every day, dictating a text to Georgia, my thirteen-year-old daughter. I speak slowly into my phone, which Cynthia, my nurse, holds up to my mouth.”
“I nod. Cynthia lowers the phone and places it on the nightstand next to me,” he wrote. “She may as well have placed it thirty miles away on the beach in Malibu. I can’t reach it, can’t use it, can’t even see it because I can’t turn my neck. I nod again, close my eyes, and hear Cynthia padding across the floor, leaving the room. I exhale lightly, then breathe in the morning. The sunlight dapples through the blinds and rinses my face. My day begins.”
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Rebecca Gayheart, Eric Dane, Georgia Dane, and Billie Dane at the 16th Annual Chrysalis Butterfly Ball on June 3, 2017.Credit: Getty Images
Dane, who died on February 19 following his battle with ALS, shared two daughters, Georgia and Billie, 16, with his wife, Rebecca Gayheart.
Elsewhere in his memoir, in an excerpt published byPeople, he recalled a moment when he had to be saved by Georgia and her friend while they were on vacation in Mexico following his 2024 diagnosis after he noticed that he couldn’t swim. He then called his wife, Rebecca Gayheart. “Georgia hands me my phone. ‘What happened?’ Rebecca says. ‘I can’t swim, Rebecca,’ I say. ‘I can’t swim.’”
Eric Dane and Georgia Dane on March 21, 2013.Credit: Theo Wargo/Getty Images
The Grey’s Anatomy actor continued, “She explodes into tears and I weep with her. We cry together. Finally, the tears slow, become reduced to gasps, and when we’re both cried out, Rebecca says, ‘I was afraid of this day. I knew it would come. I’ve been dreading it.’”
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