United Kingdom, April 10 -- Rebecca Gayheart refuses to see her marriage breakdown as a "failure".

The 53-year-old actress split from 'Grey's Anatomy' star Eric Dane - with whom she has daughters Billie, eight, and six-year-old Georgie - in 2018 after 15 years of marriage but she has insisted that they are still the "best of friends" all this time later

She told E! News: "We are best of friends. We are really close. We are great coparents

"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.

"I think it's important to not look at a relationship that ends as a failure. It's just a season. It wasn't a failure. It was a huge success. We were married for, I mean, we ...