"I wasn't the aforesaid feline they had hired."
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Eric Dane's been successful plentifulness of things astatine this point, but you decidedly cognize him champion from his clip connected ABC's long-running TV play juggernaut Grey's Anatomy.
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Eric played Mark Sloan on Grey's for six years — from 2006 to 2012, specifically. He besides came backmost connected the amusement for a impermanent spot successful 2021, but we won't spell into the specifics of that quality due to the fact that it's a large spoiler.
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So, Eric precocious appeared connected the Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard podcast, and during the occurrence helium went into the nonstop specifics (as helium sees it, astatine least) astir his Grey's departure — which, helium truly hasn't spoken astir successful the past.
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“I didn’t permission truthful overmuch arsenic I deliberation I was fto go,” helium said, noting that helium was "struggling" astatine the clip with substance maltreatment issues.
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"They didn’t fto maine spell due to the fact that of that, though it decidedly didn’t help," helium specified, earlier besides explaining that his longevity connected the amusement itself — and the resulting terms tag of his wage that came with it — was apt the crushed wherefore helium yet took his last bow.
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"As astir of these actors who person spent important clip connected the show, you commencement to go precise costly for the network,” helium explained.
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“And the web knows that the amusement is going to bash what it’s going to bash irrespective of who they support connected it—as agelong arsenic they person their Grey, they were fine.”
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Eric besides said that helium "wasn't the aforesaid feline they hired" by the extremity of his run, and that helium "understood" when, and why, his fig was up — and helium had thing but benignant words for Grey's caput honcho Shonda Rhimes, too.
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“She protected america fiercely," helium said of Shonda, who helium besides called "really great." "She protected america publicly, she protected america privately…I emotion Shonda Rhimes and she protected maine but I was astir apt fired."
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"It wasn’t ceremoniously like, ‘You’re fired,’ it was conscionable like, ‘You’re not coming back.’”
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