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A controversy surrounding the actor, who died last week at the age of 53, arose this week following a statement by actress Laura Ann Tull, who worked with him in “” in the 2000s.
Hours before his death was announced, Laura used her Threads profile to say that Dane “deserved what he is getting now”. In his account, he “hated” her after she said she loved classic literature to someone on the team who read Jane Austen on the set of the series. “He called me weird without even talking to me and talked to Cynthia Youngblood about me,” he added.
According to her, in 2005 she suffered from an autoimmune disease and needed work to get medical help, but the actor defamed her and “took away what kept her mentally healthy”. “Now he also has an autoimmune disease, karma is cruel. I should sue him”, he concluded in one of the publications.
With the news of Eric Dane’s death, the actress shared the announcement and said: “He was a bully and an asshole.” In other posts, she even claims to have seen “the cruel side” of Dane, that he behaved like a “misogynist” the last times they were together.
She says she left the production in 2011, and the following year she filed a complaint against Dane and Patrick Dempsey, co-star of the series, who also allegedly participated in the bullying. “In 2012, after my call, there were rumors that ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ was going to fire Dane or Dempsey. That was in early 2012. They fired Dane in September,” he explained. In fact, in the same year, in the ninth season, Dane’s character died in a plane crash, and returned to make a cameo in the production in 2021, in a flashback.
With the controversial comments, Laura became the target of attacks on social media accusing her of lying and other insults. About this, she said on Instagram: “Shonda Rimes and her fans are horrible”.
During his lifetime, the actor even commented on his dismissal from the series, considering that it was due to his problems with alcohol addiction and his salary being too high for the network.
For the Armchair podcast in 2024, he stated: “I didn’t leave, I was fired. They didn’t fire me because of that (difficulties), although it didn’t help. But I was becoming, like actors who spend a lot of time on a show, very expensive for the network. (…) I wasn’t the same guy they had hired, so I understood when I was fired, and Shonda was amazing, she protected us fiercely, publicly and privately. It wasn’t ‘you’re fired,’ but it was a ‘you’re not coming back.’” Even though he commented on his dismissal, he never cited behavioral issues with co-stars as a reason for his departure.
