Overview

• In a new interview with People, Gayheart said their daughters, Billie, 15, and Georgia, 13, are “really suffering” and the family is taking things day by day.
• She said professional therapists are helping them focus on hope and to handle the situation with dignity and love.
• Gayheart withdrew her 2018 divorce filing in March 2025 and said the illness has brought the family closer, though the circumstances are heartbreaking.
• Dane did not appear at a planned Grey’s Anatomy 20th-anniversary gathering during the Sept. 14 Emmy festivities, then shared an I Am ALS clip urging more research.
• Dane announced his ALS diagnosis via People in April 2025 and discussed its daily reality in a June Good Morning America interview with Diane Sawyer.