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| Eric Dane exposes the actual reason behind his firing from 'Grey's Anatomy' |
Eric Dane thinks he was sacked from "Grey's Anatomy."
The 51-year-old star of "Euphoria" spoke out about leaving the long-running ABC series after six seasons as Dr. Mark Sloan from 2006 to 2012.
"I didn't leave as much as I think I was let go," Dane acknowledged on Friday's episode of Dax Shepard's "Armchair Expert" podcast.
When Shepard said that the actor was "struggling" with drug and alcohol addiction at the conclusion of his stint on the show, Dane replied, "I was struggling. They didn't let me go because of it, though it certainly didn't help."
Dane clarified that he believes he was let go due to financial reasons.
“I was starting to become — as most of these actors who have spent significant time on the show — you start to become very expensive for the network,” he said.
“And the network knows that the show is going to do what it’s going to do irrespective of who they keep on it—as long as they have their Grey they were fine.”
He went on to say that he "wasn't the same guy they had hired" and that he understood why the producers chose to let him go.
Dane also thanked the show's creator, Shonda Rhimes, for remaining "really great" throughout the situation.
"She guarded us ferociously. She defended us both publicly and personally. "I love Shonda Rhimes, and she protected me, but I was probably fired," Dane said.
"It wasn't ceremoniously like, 'You're fired,' it was just like, 'You're not coming back,'" he told me.
The "Bad Boys: Ride or Die" actor said he had been clean for "three or four years" before being recruited on "Grey's Anatomy," but relapsed during the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike.
“If you take the whole eight years I was on ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ I was f—ed up longer than I was sober and that was when things started going sideways for me,” he shared.
Dane's character perished in the plane catastrophe that occurred in the Season 8 finale. While he survived that specific episode, his character died at the beginning of Season 9.
He later made a cameo appearance in Season 17, with Chyler Leigh, who portrayed his onscreen love interest, Lexie Grey. Leigh's character also perished in the collision.
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