Eric added, “I wanna be there for all that. So, I’m gonna fight until the last breath on this one.”
The fight in him was also fueled by hope to be there for his daughters Billie and Georgia, especially as his own father died when Eric was 7-years-old.
“I’m angry because my father was taken from me when I was young, and there’s a very good chance I’m going to be taken from my girls while they’re very young,” he tearfully said in an interview with Good Morning America in June. “At the end of the day, I just want to spend time with my family and work a little bit if I can.”
While Eric had a long and varied career, it was his role as Dr. Mark Sloan starring on season two of ABC’s long running Grey’s Anatomy that gave Eric a whole new fan based. And while the character was known as McSteamy, Eric didn’t quite see himself the same way.
“My exterior did not match my interior,” he shared on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert in 2024. “That was weird for me because I never saw myself as that. It was a real source of self-doubt. I felt fraudulent.”
After leaving Grey’s Anatomy at the end of season nine in 2012, he starred in a number of film and TV shows like the series The Last Ship and on the HBO series Euphoria.
For a look at what Eric shared about his battle with ALS before his death, keep reading.
