Actress Rebecca Gayheart opened up about the "particularly difficult" experience supporting her daughters amid their father Eric Dane's ongoing battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

In a Nov. 17 episode of the "Broad Ideas Rachel Bilson & Olivia Allen" podcast, the "Grey's Anatomy" alum's estranged wife revealed a valuable lesson she wants to model for her teen daughters, Beatrice, 15, and Georgia Geraldine, 13.

"I am definitely trying to show (my daughters) that we show up for people no matter what. And he is our family, he is your father. We show up, and we try to do it with some dignity and some grace and just get through it, and that we will get through it the best we can," she told Bilson and Allen. "I mean, it's super complicated for me."

The Kentucky native filed for divorce from Dane in 2018, following 14 years of marriage, before dismissing the case earlier this year, according to E! and People.

Despite being separated for the past eight years, the pair have expressed respect and fondness for each other, with the "Euphoria" actor telling Diane Sawyer in a June interview that Gayheart is "probably my biggest champion, my most stalwart supporter, and I lean on her."

Gayheart emphasized that she doesn't want her daughters to have any regrets regarding Dane, so she is facilitating space for them to spend as much time with him.

"This one is particularly difficult, because I just want to make sure I provide them with the opportunity to spend time with him. So that they don't ever look back and go, 'I wish I would had spent some time with my dad, or I wish I would have said this to him, or asked him these questions, or been there for him in a different kind of way,'" she added.

'There's no perfect way to navigate'

Amid an unfathomably challenging time, Gayheart also wants her children to learn to take care of themselves.

"You don't know if you're doing it right. Nobody does, and no matter how you do it, it's gonna be right and wrong. Again, two things can exist. Like, there's no perfect way to navigate such big, heavy life circumstances," she said. "You can show up for someone, and be there for them, but you also have to show up for yourself."

Ultimately, she hopes that her teens could reflect on this period of their lives and feel good about the way they handled things.

"I don't know what their takeaway will be. I know it's super complicated right now. I just hope they can get through this and feel okay about it," she said.

Dane revealed his ALS diagnosis in April, a month after Gayheart dropped the divorce filing. He has since worked to bring awareness to the debilitating illness while being vocal about his own battle.

"I want to ring every bell," Dane said during a speech in Washington, DC, while meeting with the I AM ALS organization on Sept. 29. "I have two daughters at home. I want to see them graduate college, get married, maybe even have grandkids. You know I want to be there for all that so I'm going to fight until the last breath on this one."

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