Eric Dane dies with ‘no regrets over sex tape scandal’

Scandal followed him throughout his life after a leaked video surfaced in 2009 showing Dane and his wife, Rebecca Gayheart, in a bathtub with another woman.

In 2014, the Grey’s anatomy star confessed that he regretted making the tape, saying, “We all make mistakes.”

Dane added, “The only thing I regret is getting the person I love most into this: Rebecca.” But he went to his grave having changed his tune because of his regret.

He added in a 2019 interview: “Looking back now, was it a mistake? Absolutely not. Three consenting adults, including my wife? I did nothing wrong.”

The woman in the video was identified at the time as former beauty queen Kari Ann Peniche, for whom she had posed Playboy. In the video, Gayheart can be heard telling her to lie down because she was high.

But the tape did not mention a specific drug.

Dane added about his initial statement that he regretted the tape: “I was most likely referring to the drug use that was referenced in the video, and was that a mistake? Again, I don’t necessarily think I was breaking any laws and corrupting anyone. We were just three people taking a bath.”

Dane added that he didn’t feel it necessary to say sorry about the video: “I don’t regret it. I don’t regret it, and I don’t apologize for my life experience. It’s my life experience and I’m at peace with it.”