In an episode of his podcast, ArmChair Skilled, Shepard shared to visitor Brad Pitt about how the 2 nearly received right into a battle at a males’s group Alcoholics Nameless assembly.

“In the course of the assembly, he goes, ‘Should you hit that timer once more, I’m gonna f–king throw you in that candle,’” Shepard recalled of Dane shedding it at considered one of his buddies through the assembly.

Shepard’s quick response was to say to Dane, “That is it, motherf–ker, let’s go. Rise up, let’s go exterior.”

“I am gonna beat the f–k out of him in Tom’s driveway,” he advised Pitt on his newest podcast episode. “At an AA assembly, the place we’re coming for therapeutic and understanding.”

Though that they had their fiery second as soon as upon a time, Shepard reassured listeners that he and Dane are actually good buddies.

“Eric Dane, who I now f–king love, I’ve such a sweetness for him, all of us had a mini-group. He was internet hosting. However once we first have been round one another, it was not good,” the Child Mama star admitted.

Shepard and Dane beforehand talked about their confrontation when Dane was a visitor on Armchair Skilled in June 2024. Dane shared his facet of the story, and his thought course of on the time.

“Any individual I introduced … who in all probability should not have been on the assembly … didn’t cease, was droning on,” he remembered. “Dax’s good friend … saved resetting this timer each time the man would go over. The timer went off, like, seven occasions.”

The Gray’s Anatomy actor then confessed he threatened to set the individual “ablaze” and that is when Shepard received concerned, calling him exterior for a brawl. Nonetheless, the battle by no means occurred as a result of their sponsor stepped in and stopped the argument from escalating.

Shepard stated he and Dane in the end bonded over their shared love of vehicles and the truth that they carry “the very same bag of bulls–t.”

Within the newest podcast, Pitt additionally recalled the bonding he skilled within the males’s group and shared it was one thing he’ll all the time worth.

“It was AA. It was after I was first getting sober. I simply thought it was simply unbelievable,” he stated. “Males sharing their experiences, their foibles, their missteps, their needs, their aches, and plenty of humor with it. I assumed it was a very particular expertise.”