Eric Dane, wamamaye cyane kubera gukina muganga w’uburanga Dr. Mark ‘McSteamy’ Sloan muri Grey’s Anatomy, yongeye kugaragara i Los Angeles, ariko amafoto yihariye ya DailyMail.com agaragaza ko atakimeze nk’uko abantu benshi bamwibuka, nyuma yo gutangaza ko yasanganwe indwara ikomeye ya ALS.
Uwo mukinnyi w’imyaka 52, wagaragaraga ananutse kandi ashegeshwe n’uburwayi, yari yagiye gusura inshuti ye muri Los Angeles aho abana n’umugore we w’umukinnyi w’amafilimi, Rebecca Gayheart, n’abakobwa babo babiri.
Yari yambaye agakoti k’agatambaro gafunguye k’amabara y’ifu y’ifu, isengeri y’umweru n’ipantalo y’uruhu rw’inka, kandi atari asigaye asa nk’uri kure cyane n’umuganga mwiza w’icyamamare yakinnye, ndetse byageze aho ashyigikirwa n’inshuti ye y’umugabo kugira ngo agende.
Eric Dane yatangaje ayo makuru mu itangazo yageneye People Magazine mu mpera z’icyumweru gishize, agira ati:
“Namenyeshejwe ko ndwaye ALS. Nshimishijwe no kugira umuryango unyitaho n’unkunda turi kumwe muri iki cyiciro gishya cy’ubuzima.”
Nubwo yasanganywe iyo ndwara, Dane yavuze ko agifite gahunda yo gukomeza akazi ke, kandi ko azasubira ku iseta ya filime Euphoria – aho akinana na Sydney Sweeney na Zendaya – muri iki cyumweru.
Yagize ati:
“Mfite amahirwe yo kuba ngishoboye gukora kandi ntegereje kugaruka kuri Euphoria mu cyumweru gitaha.”
ALS – izwi ku izina ryayo ry’uzuye nka Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis – ni indwara ikomeye yibasira ubwonko n’umutwe w’umugongo, igatuma udutsi dufasha imikaya kugenda dupfa buhoro buhoro. Izwi kandi nka Lou Gehrig’s Disease, izina yahawe n’umukinnyi wa Baseball wayisanganywe mu 1939.
Ibimenyetso byayo bya mbere birimo gukurura imikaya, intege nke no kugabanuka k’umubiri biterwa no gupfa buhoro buhoro kw’uturemangingo twitwa motor neurons tugenzura uko umuntu yimuka.
Mu gihe kigenda gishira, abarwaye ALS batakaza ubushobozi bwo kuvuga, kugenda no guhumeka ubwabo.
Nta muti uraboneka w’iyo ndwara, kandi benshi mu bayandura bapfa mu gihe cy’imyaka itatu kugeza kuri itanu nyuma yo kuyisanganwa.
Urebye uko Dane ameze, asa n’uri mu ntangiriro z’uburwayi. Nubwo yagaragaye ananutse cyane, aracyashobora kwigenza wenyine.
Mu kwezi gushize, umugore we Gayheart w’imyaka 53 yanditse asaba guhagarika dosiye y’ubutabera yari isaba gatanya nyuma y’imyaka irindwi bari batandukanye. Mu kiganiro yagiranye na E! yavuze ko we na Dane “ari inshuti magara.”
Nubwo yagaragaje ko icyemezo cyo kureka gatanya cyatewe n’uko “bari begeranye cyane”, igihe cy’icyo cyemezo kigaragaza ko kuba Dane yarasanganywe ALS nabyo byaba byarabigizemo uruhare.
Yavuze kandi ko kubana nk’umuryango no kurera abana babo bombi, Billie Beatrice w’imyaka 15 na Georgia Geraldine w’imyaka 13, byari ibindi mu byabigizemo uruhare.
Yagize ati:
“Turi inshuti za hafi. Turarera abana bacu neza. Twasanze hari uburyo bwo gukomeza kuba umuryango, kandi mbona abana bacu babikuramo inyungu, natwe kandi ni uko.”
Dane na Gayheart bashyingiranywe muri Ukwakira 2004 mu muhango wabereye i Las Vegas. Gayheart yari yarabanje kugirana umubano w’imyaka 13 uhuzagurika n’umuyobozi w’amafilimi Brett Ratner, w’imyaka 56. Abakunzi ba kera ba Dane barimo Alyssa Milano (52) na Lara Flynn Boyle (55).
Mu 2009, bashyizwe mu kaga ubwo urubuga Gawker rwatangazaga amashusho y’amabanga yabo bari kumwe n’uwari Miss Teen USA Kari Ann Peniche, basangira ibiyobyabwenge bambaye ubusa.
Mu 2011, Dane yajyanywe mu kigo cy’indwara z’ibiyobyabwenge kubera kwiyongera ku miti yari yahawe nyuma yo kugira imvune mu mikino.
Mu 2017, akazi kuri filime The Last Ship, aho yakinnye nka Komanda Tom Chandler, karahagaze by’akanya gato kugira ngo avurwe ihungabana.
Umwaka wakurikiyeho, Gayheart yatanze gatanya avuga ko batumvikana, ariko ntibigeze batandukana burundu, none ubu bongeye kubana nyuma y’imyaka irindwi batandukanye.
Nubwo bagize ibihe bikomeye n’ibigoye, bombi bakomeje akazi kabo: Dane yibanda kuri Euphoria aho akinana na Jacob Elordi, ariko anafite indi filime yise Kabul itarajya hanze, ivuga kuri guhinduka kw’ivanywaho ry’ingabo z’Abanyamerika muri Afghanistan mu 2021, aho hapfuye abasirikare 13.
Gayheart we, ibikorwa bye bya vuba bibarirwa mu 2019, aho yagize uruhare rukomeye nk’umugore wa Brad Pitt muri filime y’icyamamare Quentin Tarantino Once Upon A Time in Hollywood.
