Alyssa Milano Pays Tribute to 'Charmed' Love Interest Eric Dane

Alyssa Milano is mourning the loss of Eric Dane.

The 53-year-old actress took to Instagram to pay tribute to her former co-star on Thursday evening (February 19), following the news of his death after battling ALS.

Alyssa and Eric co-starred as love interests on The WB’s Charmed in seasons five and six, and they also dated in real life. He played Jason Dean, a mortal businessman that Alyssa‘s Phoebe met online, and their relationship ended after he found out she was a witch.

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“I can’t stop seeing that spark in Eric’s eye right before he’d say something that would either make you spit out your drink or rethink your entire perspective. He had a razor-sharp sense of humor. He loved the absurdity of things. He loved catching people off guard,” Alyssa wrote.

“And when it came to his daughters and Rebecca, everything in him softened. He carried them with him even in rooms where they weren’t present. You could see it in the way his voice changed when he said their names. A breathtakingly beautiful family,” she continued. “The spark. The mischief. The tenderness he kept guarded but never totally hidden.”

“He convinced me to get my pixie cut and my nose piercing. He also was with me on the walk when we found Lucy, my beloved rescue chihuahua. He called me “Milano,” as if it was the only part of my name that mattered,” Alyssa concluded. “My heart is with the people who were lucky enough to be his home.”

In the Men of Charmed documentary, Alyssa mentioned that she channeled her emotions from their real life breakup into their characters’ break-up scene, recalling the exact moment where they broke up and incorporating that into the scene.

Pictured here: Alyssa and Eric attending the Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star premiere together in September 2003 in Los Angeles, which was right before the debut of Charmed season six.