In a moving conversation with Maria Shriver, Rebecca Gayheart opens up about her late husband Eric Dane’s courageous battle with ALS, the legacy of hope that he left behind and the touching memoir he penned in his last year of life. “I think Eric really helped bring some visibility to this disease,” she says.

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