Eric Dane talks about why he’ll “probably get fired” from Grey’s Anatomy

Eric Dane Opens Up About His Delisting Gray’s Anatomy After six seasons playing Dr. Mark Sloan, known as McStimmy, on the hit ABC series. (Spoilers below!)

The actor was introduced at the end of the second season as a guest star. He became a regular character in the third season after receiving positive feedback for his first appearance. Over the following seasons, Sloane became a fan-favorite character, but after a plane crash at the end of season eight, it was revealed that he would succumb to his injuries, dying at the beginning of season nine.

Dane returned to the show briefly in season 17 when Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) was in a coronavirus-induced coma and was visited by Sloan, her sister Lexie Gray (Chyler Leigh), her husband Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), and George O.J. Mali (TR Knight) and Andrew DeLuca (Giacomo Gianniotti).

the trance The actor stopped Dax Shepard The Chair Podcast Earlier this week, he revealed that he had not specifically chosen to leave Gray’s Anatomy When it was written off.

“I think they let me go,” he told the host, explaining that he was struggling with addiction at the time. “They didn’t release me for that reason, although that certainly didn’t help. I was starting to become, like most of these actors who have been on a show too long, too expensive for the network. And the network knows the show is going to do what it’s going to do no matter who they stay on. As long as “They have Gray, they’re fine.”

“I wasn’t the same person they hired,” he continued. “So I understood when I was let go. And Shonda [Rhimes] “She was really great. She protected us fiercely. She protected us publicly. She protected us privately. … But I might have been fired. It wasn’t a celebratory, ‘You’re fired,’ it was more like, ‘You’re not coming back.’

At the height of his fame while he was there ashen‘s, Dane entered rehab due to his addiction to painkillers and had been suffering from depression over the years. He shared that when he joined the show, he had been sober for three or four years, so he was able to differentiate between what was reality and what wasn’t, but overall, he doesn’t think he handled the fame that came with it very well.

“If you take the entire eight years Gray’s Anatomy“I had sex longer than I was sober,” he revealed. “That’s when things started going sideways for me,” he said, adding that the sudden popularity may have played a role in his relapse. “It was overwhelming, and I think I just wanted to pretend it wasn’t that way and that I was okay with it. Act like you were there, but you weren’t.”

Danny currently plays Cal Jacobs in trancethe father of Nate Jacobs (Jacob Elordi), and one of the few adult characters on the show.