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Headline: Patrick Dempsey reveals Eric Dane was 'starting to lose his ability to speak' before his death

Caption: The actor, who played Derek Shepherd alongside Dane's Mark Sloan on the medical drama for several seasons, addressed Dane's death while promoting his new TV show Memory of a Killer on Virgin Radio's The Chris Evans Breakfast Show on Friday. Dempsey admitted that he felt "very sad" when he woke up in the U.K. on Friday morning and learned that Dane had died, less than a year after he publicly revealed his amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) diagnosis. He was 53. "It's hard to put into words. I feel really so sad for his children..."

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