Rebecca Gayheart's relationship with Eric Dane is "super-complicated"

During an appearance on the Broad Ideas podcast, she explained: "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. I mean, it's super complicated for me.

"We've been separated for eight years. The kids live with me 100 per cent of the time. There's been lots of just stuff, other stuff, but I try to stay optimistic about it all ...

"I'm trying to learn from it and [be a] role model for them [for] how to go through something like this, which is really hard."

Rebecca added: "I don't know if I'm doing it well or if I'm doing it in the wrong way or the right way. I'm just showing up. I'm showing up, and I'm trying to be there for them. I guess time will tell ... They're good girls who are just going through a lot ...

"It's all very humbling. And I think one piece of this that I hope I'm passing to my kids is the idea that you can show up for someone and be there for them, but you also have to show up for yourself, and that this is life.

"Life, sadly, is just moments, good and bad, strung together. There's gonna be good ones, there's gonna be bad ones, there's gonna be exciting ones, it's gonna be really sad."

Rebecca also insisted she's encouraging the kids to spend as much time as possible with their dad as his disease progresses.

She said: "[My focus is giving them] the opportunity to spend time with [their father] so that they don't ever look back and go: 'I wish I would have spent some time with my dad'."