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He shares his story now with abcs Michael Strahan. What is this all about . I am making a video blog of myself. This is intended to be a gift for you, my child, who i have not yet met. Reporter on the football field, Steve Gleason was known for being fast and fearless. In 2006, he became a hero to a city that really needed one. This block clinching a win for the new Orleans Saints in their first home game after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the city. A hero then. A hero now. But for a very different reason. I have been diagnosed with amiotrophic lateral sclerosis, a disease in the motor neurons. The disease is almost always fatal. Reporter just a few weeks after this devastating news, steve and his wife michelle found out they were having a baby. Do you think it already has a hard head . That comes from his dads side . Reporter they started filming everything. Love letters and life lessons for their son. While steve still has a chance. I feel like he had this terminal diagnosis but we felt like we could walk on water. Hello. Hello. Hey, how are you . How are you now . It was one of the happiest moments of both our lives, knowing we were going to have a baby and this is going to happen. Do you remember that day . Reporter since then, als has robbed steve of his ability to move, to talk, and to breathe. Today he relies on a computer to speak. I had some incredible moments on the football field. But ive had even more uplifting moments off the field. Since diagnosis. Were doing the coolest thing we could do, right . Thats right. Its a boy there thats my boy reporter they captured 1,300 hours of memories for their son, named rivers. Reporter the making of the new documentary called gleason. Im choosing to live with disease. And live with passion, intention, purpose. Reporter an unflinching story of love, marriage, and fatherhood. Daddy. Daddy. Reporter under the impossible pressures of als. I love you. Ive been thinking about fathers and sons a lot. At this point it looks like were not going to have the normal fatherson relationship. What are you passing on to rivers . Besides a hard head. Its a constant work in progress. Ive tried to share not only my memories and my loves but also my shortcomings. I cant go out and play catch with you. I cant throw you batting practice. But im going to do everything i can to be a good father. To give you what a son needs from his father. And im going to be around, buddy. Its not going to be easy but its going to be awesome. Reporter the movie, revealing intimate moments not just of strength, but also of struggle. Its crazy, man. I am to the point where i barely go out of the house by myself. Michelle goes everywhere with me now. She helps me shower. She helps me put on my clothes. She helps me eat. All marriages have their challenges, their ups and downs. Why did you decide to share these moments . We could have made a movie that glosses over the hard parts and just showed the hero part and the easy parts. But thats just its almost like a falsity. We wanted to show the truth. You have a mom who is just incredible. Incredible. Remarkable. Amazing. And were both so lucky to have her. Go, go throughout this film there is moments of incredible humor. How do you keep that going . How do you laugh in certain moments that other people say you should almost be crying . Youve got to do something, and were both funny. Were both funny people, i think. Go, daddy, go so laughing has been one of the best solutions to get through this. Id like to say im a naturally funny dude. But in reality, i think i just have no choice. Dy ever tell you i think you got funnier after diagnosis . Reporter their humor and courage seem to be speaking to people. The film is receiving critical acclaim and its already getting oscar buzz. Director clay twill jumped at the chance to tell the gleason story. When i joined the project i felt the story was going to be about this guy who through a tragic set of circumstances was finding his purpose and kind of this father and son story. But what i didnt know and what nobody talked about was michelles experience. I think any caretaker, youre always kind of there trying to make things easier for him. I just feel like its what i do. Its our relationship. Its what we do. Its just kind of like part of our life. Like this is what it is. So i set up things for him in the morning, set up things for him in the night. Help him walk, brush his teeth, help feed him. Its just kind of like a new part of life. Just like it is learning how to take care of rivers. Reporter for a football star losing the ability to move is almost unthinkable. For steve and michelle, losing the ability to communicate was worse. Im excited for the day when you are teaching me. The losing of the voice is the scariest and saddest part, i think, of this process. Its a brutal time. It transpires that reporter just like on the football field, steve refused to give up. He researched this place where you can actually voice bank. So his mechanical voice is going to be his voice. Then it goes to Eye Technology where he talks with his eyes. But hes talking a letter at a time. Hi, michelle, you rock. Reporter since talking takes steve a bit of time, we gave him our questions in advance. Making sure that all als patients have access to this kind of technology has become one of steves missions. With the help of his family and teammates, he created a nonprofit called team gleason. A. L. S. Doesnt just kill you, it steals your life a little bit at a time. Unless we stop it first. Most of what als takes away, technology can give back. I love you. I love you reporter maybe most importantly, the technology has given steve time to watch rivers grow. I often feel inadequate as a father. Fortunately, because of this badass technology and equally badass care crew, im able to be very involved in rivers life. Did you make any new friends today . No. I didnt. Did you play with dylan and april . No, he had fever. I pick up rivers every day from school. Hes going to try harder than any other dad because he cant talk. Rivers is fast, hes slow, eye difficult, its easy to quit. Steve is not a quitter. Can you count to october 19 in this one, two theres my thinking. My life aint easy. But its awesome. Nothing worthwhile is easy. Reporter for nightline, im Michael Strahan in new york. One, two, three, four, five he is indeed awesome. Gleason opens in select theaters across the country this weekend. Up next, how adorable animals plus a veterinarian with animal magnetism equals a social media superstar. Later, putting new wind beneath her wings. How the star of wicked and frozen is breathing new life into the role bette midler made famous. 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Im not actually kidding when i say hes been named people magazines sexiest beast charmer alive. Now hes broadening his appeal, racking up over 366,000 followers on instagram. So were once again checking in on this reallife dr. Mcdreamy who spent time with abcs nick watt for our series social stars. So were scabbed up here. Reporter he smolders behind that mask. Muscles ripple beneath the scrubs. Hes saving a bunny rabbits life. Im not going to show his face just yet. First, what do colleagues have to say about dr. Evan anton . Instagram adonis. Virile veterinarian. One person shouldnt than good looking, its not fair to the rest of us. Do you find yourself staring at him . You get used to it. But at first, a little bit. Reporter and parents of the pets he treats . My pets happy, im happy. When i see him, hes easy on the eyes. How c how many hot guy dozen you see on the street every day, then having him be your vet . Reporter has an owner ever said, youre just a chippendale pretending to be a vet . Yeah, yeah, it has. Theyre like this guy looks like a model, i want a real doctor. Does he look like a real doctor . No, i question it sometimes. He looks like he plays a vet on tv. Reporter he is mcdreamy, vintage clooney, all in one. Here he is in all his glory. An exotic pet specialist. People magazines sexiest beast charmer alive. Closing in on 400,000 instagram followers. Refresh my phone and it would be a few more hundred, a few thousand every couple of minutes, it was crazy. Reporter posts like this, this, and this. Exotic. Comments like this. If hes a vet, im an animal. This guy is literally perfection. And, found my husband. Marriage proposals . Yeah, weve gotten a few of those. Reporter but the 31yearold dreamboat is, im afraid, engaged to be married. And not to someone who stalked him on instagram. Okay, lets break this down. Why has his social media star ascended so . If you were an ugly veterinarian, this would not have happened. I dont know, whatever, i mean, we see cool stuff, maybe not. Reporter dr. Evan started working at the Conejo Valley veterinarian hospital in california three years ago. Everybody i know wants to knowfy work with that hot doctor. I started about a year or so into practice, maybe six months, started posting neat cases, neat animals. We see so many cool things. People started saying, i dont care about the snake, wasnt to look at the dreamy doctor . That happens sometimes yeah. What does your day look like . You look like you go to the gym. Thank you. Getting to the gym is something i like to do daily. Just get some training in. Reporter he does. Every day. Two hours a day if hes not too busy saving animals lives. He paid his way through vet school as a fitness train over the side. Im beginning to hate this guy. I hear hes also a nice guy. He is, which is his saving grace. But it kind of its kind of irritating when a really goodlooking person is also nice. Its like, cant you be mean so i can hate you for that . Reporter sometimes all it takes to succeed on social media is a pretty face and a rockhard body. Like Instagram Mega star brocko hearn who weve profiled before. Do you have a girlfriend . I dont, actually. Reporter with dr. Evan theres more. On instagram he posted a video of a baby. Okay. Animals and babies . Every girls drooling. Reporter part of the peel as with any social media star is genuine passion. Its not an act . No, i dont think youre going to go through this much school and work, its a lot of work. Reporter you cant fake that youre enjoying extracting a stinking compacted egg from inside a macaws you know what. There must be something wrong. Bad temper . Flatulence . Late . Bad breath . Slow to surgery. Apparently youre not that great at timekeeping. Is that right . Is that what they said . Im trying to find the achilles heel. Can i tell you a secret . Yeah. When he first started working here, before he would go into an exam room, he would like stand in front of the door. Do this. Straighten scrubs, put on a smile. And then walk in. It was very entertaining. Dont tell him i told you that. Its not a dumb question. Are any of the animals grateful . I think animals can be grateful. I had a bird, it had a fish hook stuck in its beak. Its an immediate fix and they can make an association to it. Its all about association with pets. Reporter twinkkys about to go under dr. Evans knife. Good luck, twinkie. Dr. Evan will take good care of you. You dont care that dr. Evans is good looking. But he is. Oh, she does. Look at that face. Shes happy. Reporter my wife says she needs to take our dog in for a checkup. Hang on. We dont even have a dog. Im nick watt for nightline, thousand oaks, california. Next, the big news about a cult classic soon to be remade for the small screen. 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You are the wind reporter lifetime announcing their plan to put new wind beneath the wings of the beloved movie beaches. Jumping into the role of c. C. Bloom, originally portrayed by bette midler, idina menzel of frozen. Some fans are not too happy firing off on twitter with a lifetime remake of beaches . Worst idea ever. We black out the whole town and hit the five casinos at the same time reporter its not the first time hollywood tried to reinvent the wheel. Sometimes successful. Take oceans 11. Everybody cut loose reporter also a slew of flaps. Even fancy footwork couldnt carry footloose. Thats the glory of love reporter heres to hoping lifetimes take on an old classic will have a new generation of fans singing about the glory of love. Not wishing they had just said let it go. Let it go well have to see for ourselves. Thanks for watching abc news. Tune into Good Morning America tomorrow. As always were online on our Facebook Page and at abcnews. Com. Good night, america. 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