Eric Dane initially thought his ALS symptoms were the result of "texting too much".
The Grey's Anatomy star died in February 2026 at the age of 53 two years after he was diagnosed with the degenerative neurological disorder and he opened up about the early stages of his illness in his candid autobiography My Book of Days: A Memoir in Moments, revealing he first noticed a problem when he started struggling to eat sushi with chopsticks in January 2024.
