Eric Dane Describes Waking Up With ALS In First TV Interview Since Announcement

Eric Dane said he cannot hide from the fact that he has ALS.

“I wake up every day and I’m immediately reminded that this is happening,” the recently diagnosed “Grey’s Anatomy” alum told Diane Sawyer in an interview preview shared Thursday. (Watch the video below.)

“It’s not a dream,” Sawyer said.

“It’s not a dream,” the actor replied.

Despite living with the incurable disease, which ravages the nervous system, Dane explained: “I don’t think this is the end of my story. I don’t feel like this is the end of me.”

Sawyer asked Dane whom he called first ― presumably to deliver the news of his amyotrophic lateral sclerosis diagnosis.

Dane appeared to well up with emotion as he bowed his head. The snippet ended there. Sawyer’s full interview airs Monday on “Good Morning America.”

The actor revealed he had ALS, sometimes called Lou Gehrig’s disease, in an April issue of People.

“I am grateful to have my loving family by my side as we navigate this next chapter,” he said.

He said he planned to keep working on HBO’s “Euphoria,” in which he plays Cal Jacobs, the father of Jacob Elordi’s Nate Jacobs character.

The TV star rose to fame as hunky plastic surgeon Mark Sloan, aka McSteamy, on “Grey’s Anatomy” from 2006 to 2012.

Dane, 52, has two teenage children with wife Rebecca Gayheart.