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.

Former "Grey's Anatomy" star Eric Dane is speaking out for the first time in a television interview about his battle with ALS, a degenerative neurological disorder.

In this first interview since revealing his ALS diagnosis in April, Eric Dane says, "I don’t think this is the end of my story."