Eric Dane, 52, who played a heartthrob doctor on Grey’s Anatomy, has just opened up on exactly why he cancelled his Emmy Awards gig.

Dane, known as “McSteamy” on the long-running drama, was scheduled to present at the TV awards show in mid-September with former Grey’s co-star Jesse Williams, and then he had an accident.

Fans had wondered why he was absent, but he cleared up the confusion in a Thursday interview with The Washington Post explaining that he had a hard fall in his kitchen due to his amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) diagnosis.

“ALS is a nasty disease… So I was in the hospital during the Emmys getting stitches put in my head," Dane said.

Dane, who opened up publicly to People about his battle with the neurodegenerative disease in April, said he was “upset” that the hospit

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