Emmys 2025 producer on Eric Dane’s absence from show

They’re addressing his absence. 

During the 2025 Emmys on Sunday night, Eric Dane was scheduled to appear onstage for a “Grey’s Anatomy” tribute, alongside former co-star Jesse Williams, celebrating 20 years of the Shonda Rhimes medical drama. 

However, Dane, 52, who revealed in April that he had been diagnosed with ALS, missed the appearance. 

Emmys producerJesse Collins told Variety in a story published Monday,  “I don’t know the details of that,” referring to Dane’s absence. 

“I just was told that he wasn’t able to make it. And fortunately, Jesse was able to present by himself.”

Hosted by comedian Nate Bargatze, the 2025 Emmys saw wins for “The Pitt,” “Severance,” and “The Studio,” while “The White Lotus” got shut out.

Dane’s health announcement, meanwhile, came weeks after he scuttled plans to divorce his wife, Rebecca Gayheart, whom he married in 2004. 

Dane gave his first interview since his diagnosis in June on”Good Morning America.”

He told Diane Sawyer that he has only “one functioning arm.”

“My left side is functioning, my right side has completely stopped working,” Dane explained. “[My left arm] is going. I feel like maybe a couple more months and I won’t have my left hand either. It’s sobering.”

Fellow Emmys producer Jennae Rouzan-Clay told Variety on Monday that the “Grey’s Anatomy” tribute wasn’t planned to be elaborate or feature a set mimicking the long-running ABC drama. 

“It was just a celebration with the two of them,” she said, referring to Dane and Williams.

The Post reached out to Dane for comment. 

Williams, 44, ended up presenting the award for Directing for a Drama Series alone during the ceremony, and he didn’t mention Dane or “Grey’s Anatomy.” 

On the red carpet on Sunday night before the ceremony, Williams told Entertainment Tonight, “I had a really wonderful time working with [Eric] in particular. But the show has just had and continues to have a really remarkable, emotional, intellectual impact on people all over the globe.”

He also told E! that he loved working with Dane.

“You know, on and off screen, that’s my brother,” Williams said about his former co-star.

“He’s solid. The man’s just solid, and we have to be careful, you know, as men to still, you know, take care of ourselves and he’s got a perfect balance going.”

In June, Dane explained that he started having symptoms of the neurodegenerative disease that affects muscle movement a year and a half ago when he had weakness in his right hand. After nine months of testing, he got the ALS diagnosis. 

The “Euphoria” actor, who shares daughters Billie, 15, and Georgia, 13, with Gayheart, also recalled the time that he lost functionality in his legs while he was snorkeling, which led to one of his daughters having to rescue him.

“She dragged me back to the boat,” said Dane. “I was like, breaking down in tears. I made sure she got back to the water with her friend and continued on with the snorkeling. I was just heartbroken.”

Amid his health battle, he said he’s become closer to Gayheart.

“We have managed to become better friends and better parents,” he shared. “She is probably my biggest champion and my most stalwart supporter. And I lean on her.”