Rebecca Gayheart is navigating a personal chapter.
The Beverly Hills, 90210 alum—who shares kids Billie, 15, and Georgia, 13, with estranged husband Eric Dane—enjoyed a date night with Hard Rock cofounder Peter Morton at Italian restaurant E-Baldi on Dec. 3, with the duo packing on the PDA outside of the Beverly Hills restaurant.
While Gayheart, 54, and Morton, 78, have been linked romantically since 2023 and have occasionally been photographed out together, including at the Chanel and Charles Finch pre-2025 Oscars dinner in March, they've yet to publicly address their status.
E! News has reached out to Gayheart and Morton's reps for comment and has not yet heard back.
The Jawbreaker star's latest outing comes shortly after she spoke out about her relationship with Dane following his ALS diagnosis.
"I am trying to show them that we show up for people no matter what," Gayheart explained on the Nov. 17 episode of the Broad Ideas with Rachel Bilson and Olivia Allen podcast. "He is our family. He is your father."
"We show up," continued the actress—who had filed for divorce from Eric in 2018 after seven years of marriage and dismissed her filing this past March a month before the 53-year-old shared his diagnoses, "and we try to do it with some dignity and some grace and just get through it. We will get through it the best we can."
Eric has also been dating since their breakup and most recently stepped out in June with filmmaker Janell Shirtcliff. The Euphoria star and filmmaker attended the Los Angeles premiere of Prime Video's Countdown, one of his latest acting projects.
E! News had reached out to Dane and Shirtcliff's reps for comment on the relationship, but did not hear back.
As the Grey's Anatomy alum continues to navigate his acting career amid his ALS journey, Eric is also bringing continued awareness to the disease.
"I think it’s imperative that I share my journey with as many people as I can because I don't feel like my life is about me anymore," he explained during a Dec. 2 virtual panel hosted by the nonprofit I AM ALS. "I would love my life to be all about me, but I just can't. I don't think I would be able to move forward if that were the case. It's been a propulsive sort of component to my existence."
As Eric's journey continues, read on for his story, in his own words.
Opening Up About His Private Health Battle
Eric Dane shared that he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, in April 2025.
"I have been diagnosed with ALS,” Dane told People at the time. “I am grateful to have my loving family by my side as we navigate this next chapter.”
Returning to Set
The Euphoria star made it clear that he wasn’t stepping away from the screen amid his diagnosis, sharing in April 2025 that he was continuing to film the final season of the HBO series.
And Dane, whose Amazon MGM Studios series Countdown debuted over the summer, admitted that acting has kept him “sharp” has he navigates his health battle.
"I feel great when I'm at work," he explained to E! News in June 2025. "Of course, there have been some sort of setbacks, but I feel pretty good. My spirit is always pretty buoyant, so at the end of the day, that's all that matters."
Detailing His First Symptoms
Two months after sharing his diagnosis, the Grey’s Anatomy alum spoke candidly about his journey, including the symptoms that led to his diagnosis.
"I started experiencing some weakness in my right hand," Dane told Diane Sawyer in a sit-down on Good Morning America in June 2025. "I didn’t really think anything of it at the time. I thought maybe I’d been texting too much or my hand was fatigued, but a few weeks later I noticed it got a little worse."
After nine months of appointments, which involved visiting two hand specialists and two neurologists, Dane was told he had ALS.
"I will never forget those three letters," the father of two explained. "It's on me the second I wake up. It's not a dream."
“Sobering" Road Ahead
While sharing how the rare degenerative disease has affected him physically so far, he also detailed where he sees the progression headed.
“My left side is functioning, my right side has completely stopped working," Dane shared during his interview with Sawyer. "I feel like maybe a couple more months, and I won’t have my left hand either. It’s sobering."
A Close-Knit Support System
As Dane goes through this health battle, his wife of over 20 years, Rebecca Gayheart, who filed to dismiss their 2018 divorce in March, has been by his side.
“I call Rebecca. I talk to her every day,” Dane shared during his interview with Sawyer. “We have managed to become better friends and better parents, and she is probably my biggest champion and my most stalwart supporter, and I lean on her."
According to Gayheart, she and Dane are the “best of friends.”
“We are really close. We are great co-parents,” the Beverly Hills, 90210 star explained to E! News April 9, 2025. “We really figured out the formula to staying a family and I think our kids are benefiting greatly from it and we are as well.”
Prioritizing Family Time
While Dane has been marking milestones with his and Gayheart’s daughters Billie and Georgia, he’s admitted he resents how his ALS is affecting the lives of his family members.
"I'm angry, because my father was taken from me when I was young," the actor, whose father died by suicide when he was a young boy, said during his GMA interview. "And now there's a very good chance I'm going to be taken from my girls while they're very young. At the end of the day, all I want to do is spend time with my family and work a little bit, if I can."
Emmys Absence
Dane was set to present at the 2025 Emmys alongside his Grey's Anatomy costar Jesse Williams on Sept. 14 but ended up missing the award show. A few weeks after his absence, Dane shared that he had to skip the show because of a hospital visit.
“ALS is a nasty disease," he said during an interview with The Washington Post published on Oct. 2. "So I was in the hospital during the Emmys getting stitches put in my head."
"I was a really upset about it,” Dane added. “But you know, there was nothing I could do about it."
His Hopes for the Future
Dane met with doctors and representatives from the I Am ALS organization in September, 2025, and spoke with California congressman Eric Swalwell about federal funding towards research for the currently incurable neurological disease.
“I wanna ring every bell,” Dane told Swalwell in a TikTok video posted by the politician on Sept. 29. “I have two daughters at home. I wanna see them graduate college, get married, maybe have grandkids.”