Eric Dane lifts lid on Grey's Anatomy firing: I was struggling

Eric Dane has shared immoderate idiosyncratic details astir wherefore helium thinks helium was fired from the deed showGrey's Anatomy.

The 51-year-old Euphoria star was a portion of the long-running deed ABC show, playing Dr. Mark Sloan for six seasons betwixt 2006 and 2012.

"I didn't permission truthful overmuch arsenic I deliberation I was fto go," Dane admitted connected Friday's occurrence of Dax Shepard's "Armchair Expert" podcast.

It was pointed retired by Shepard that Dane was struggling with cause and intoxicant addiction astir the clip helium near the show, to which the histrion said: "I was struggling. They didn't fto maine spell due to the fact that of that, though it decidedly didn't help.

"I was starting to become, arsenic astir of these actors who person spent important clip connected the show, you commencement to go precise costly for the network," helium said.

"And the web knows that the amusement is going to bash what it's going to bash irrespective of who they support connected it, arsenic agelong arsenic they person their Grey they were fine."

Praise for the show's creator

It seems similar determination was small successful the mode of atrocious humor arsenic Dane praised the show's creator, Shonda Rhimes, for being "really great" passim the ordeal.

"She protected america fiercely. She protected america publicly, she protected america privately. I emotion Shonda Rhimes and she protected maine but I was astir apt fired," Dane recalled.

"It wasn't ceremoniously like, 'You're fired,' it was conscionable like, 'You're not coming back,'" helium said.

"If you instrumentality the full 8 years I was connected 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was f***ed up longer than I was sober and that was erstwhile things started going sideways for me."