Rebecca Gayheart details Eric Dane's final week of life: ‘Had no idea that was it'

Rebecca Gayheart has opened up about the final days of husband Eric Dane’s life, from family sleepovers in his room to having “no idea that was it” during his last trip to the hospital. Dane died at 53 in February, less than one year after publicly announcing he had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Gayheart, 55, spoke with NBC special correspondent Maria Shriver on TODAY Nov. 3, the release day for Dane’s posthumous memoir, “My Book of Days: A Memoir in Moments.” The actor shared how she and their two daughters “never, ever anticipated” that they would lose him in February. “He had gone to the hospital so many times before, and they would patch him up, so to speak, and he would come home,” Gayheart said. “And he’d be OK. And we’d go back to the normal routine, which did change week by week.” She recalled the first day of Dane’s final trip to the hospital. “I said, ‘Listen, I’ll be back. I have a dinner. I’m going to this event.’ I had no idea that