Dax Shepard ‘Hated’ Eric Dane at First, Says They Almost Had a ‘Fist Fight’ Outside an AA Meeting: ‘This Had Been Simmering For a Long Time’

Last sentence of the article: “I ended up loving him so much.” I have zero opinion on Dax Shepard either way, but it sounds like he was telling the story of the roundabout way they became close, and Variety decided to pick the most outrage-bait beginning for their headline.

Everything I know about Dax Shepard has been against my will

Read the story before assuming. Here's a portion: “God bless both of us,” Shepard said. “We kept coming back to the same meeting. Over the course of the next two years, I found myself starting to kind of relate to him. I heard his story.” “His father shot himself in his house when he was a little boy,” Shepard said. “And his mom came upstairs and said, ‘I’ll tell you what happened if you promise that you won’t cry.’ So that little boy held onto that. And then that little boy grew up without a dad, like I grew up without a dad, and he was so in search of masculine validation, and it took all these shapes that I hated. That I’m sure he hated in me.” He continued, “I remember he had his share one time and I said, ‘I can’t believe I’m gonna say this, but that’s one of my favorite shares I’ve ever heard.’ Maybe a week or two later, one of his shares, he said, ‘I can’t believe I’m gonna say this, but I think I’ve come to fall in love with Dax.’ And then we became friends.” Edit: Eric shared this story on Dax's podcast for the whole world already.

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Just your standard, classless, clickbait headline. It's ultimately a story about how he became friends with the guy. Not about how he hates him.

The third most famous guy from Without A Paddle getting super famous is why podcasts were a mistake.

I don’t hate Dax, used to kinda like him but both and wife over share. Not as bad as Jada…

This was so sad: “His father shot himself in his house when he was a little boy,” Shepard said. “And his mom came upstairs and said, ‘I’ll tell you what happened if you promise that you won’t cry.’ So that little boy held onto that. And then that little boy grew up without a dad, like I grew up without a dad, and he was so in search of masculine validation, and it took all these shapes that I hated. That I’m sure he hated in me.” I hope Dane really found some peace in sobriety and growing. Interesting too that he had two girls. Hopefully that helped him deal with some of those issues around “masculinity”.

This is the most poorly written article Ive ever read in a major publication. Pretty sure this is straightforwardly pulled from his podcast and arranged by AI in a linear order. There is no story. This is an aside.

This is clickbait. He talked about this with Eric Dane and again with Brad Pitt on his podcast. A lot of red flag behavior from this dude, but this ain’t it.

I hear lots of people hate Dax.

I guess all of the "anonymous " information shared in those meetings is null and void once you're dead. Good to know Dax!

I read that as AAA - then I laughed at the thought of them, waking in separately, to plan a trip. Then getting into an argument over who has the cooler trip. Then launching into a fist fight, while some retired senior citizen, who is just a volunteer, panics. To me, who is two edibles in, this is probably the funniest thing I have ever thought of. Enjoy and smile 😊

I can't imagine there's a man on this earth who upon meeting Dax *doesn't* want to punch him in the face.

Why does this guy brag about fighting all the time? Dude can't decide if he wants to be known as the badass tough guy that "almost" gets into fights all the time or an untrained self-help b*** that overshares for attention. Wasn't the stuff with Dane in AA? That shit's supposed to stay private.

This is like the third “Dax Sheperd wants to fight a guy” story I’ve heard this year.

I think it’s a sign of personality disorder to have such strong feelings for people that alternate from one extreme to the other

Dax shepherd stop chasing attention you deserve challenge 2026 edition

Sometimes its best to just not say something and this is absolutely one of those times.

Him and the wife have a bad case of saying everything that comes into their mind on public platforms. We all cringe or are dumbfounded, sure it’s a tactic to make money. But they make me wish I never learnt to read sometimes.

Dax loves Dax more than Dax loves Dax.

Wow he’s in AA? I never knew…

wtf are these stories on dax and what are these weird judgements on them… like if you actually listen to the dude and even loosely follow them the impression I get is he’s a pretty good and loving husband and father. The two of them seem to genuinely love each other and despite their wealth and Hollywood stuff they both seem surprisingly normal for two people at that level. Idk them obviously but I see these posts sometimes and they’re so different from what I gather from having actually listened to his podcasts or seen of the two of them interacting.

Dax Shepard is a sociopath

I don’t have an issue with Dax other than the fact that he seems determined to impress upon the world he is some sort of tough guy, despite having zero martial arts or grappling background. 

The Dax Shepard hate is so boring now. If you’re not a fan of his and it makes you angry to hear about him, just don’t click on articles about him

Who the heck is Eric Dane?

Cool who f****** cares

I read the whole thread and not one of you haters actually stated a reason to not like Dax. I’m going to keep supporting him bc no decent reason to not like him.

Dax Shepherd is the biggest d*****. That’s it. He’s just a big f****** d*****.

Dax Shepard just strikes me as somebody with no redeeming qualities.

Cavemen sh*t haha

Cher and coco have some issues with dax also.

Dax is such a d***** bag. Everything I learn about him I dislike.

Every single time this man opens his mouth I hate him more than I hated him the last time. It also colors my view of his wife.

Christ, learn to read a room

I despise everyone that made Dax Shepard famous.

He’s an a******

Dax gives short bus kid energy.

I do not care for this man and have never actively seemed out information about him because I find him so f****** annoying. I’m not going to read this, just here to say the title alone is continuing the tradition of annoying the f*** out of me.

So much for what happens in here stays in here. Here. Here.