Dax Shepard just lately informed CNN that he “hated” the late Eric Dane once they first met and stated they nearly had a “fist fight” after an altercation at an AA assembly.
“Eric Dane, I can now say I met in recovery, and we hated each other. I hated him!” Shepard recalled. “I thought he was a bit of a bully. And we were in a meeting, he threatened a younger member of the group, and this had been simmering for a long time, and I said, ‘Let’s go. Outside. Right now.’ It was on. And we walked outside to a fist fight in the driveway of an AA meeting.”
Despite their disagreement, Shepard stated they continued to attend the identical assembly and ultimately began to grasp one another higher.
“God bless both of us,” Shepard stated. “We kept coming back to the same meeting. Over the course of the next two years, I found myself starting to kind of relate to him. I heard his story.”
“His father shot himself in his house when he was a little boy,” Shepard stated. “And his mom came upstairs and said, ‘I’ll tell you what happened if you promise that you won’t cry.’ So that little boy held onto that. And then that little boy grew up without a dad, like I grew up without a dad, and he was so in search of masculine validation, and it took all these shapes that I hated. That I’m sure he hated in me.”
He continued, “I remember he had his share one time and I said, ‘I can’t believe I’m gonna say this, but that’s one of my favorite shares I’ve ever heard.’ Maybe a week or two later, one of his shares, he said, ‘I can’t believe I’m gonna say this, but I think I’ve come to fall in love with Dax.’ And then we became friends.”
Shepard stated he later started visiting Dane in his house, the place they’d discuss their troubled upbringings.
“I came to fall in love with a very scared man trying and hoping he had become a man, and I related,” Shepard stated. “I ended up loving him so much.”
