How Dawson’s Creek Stars Are Reuniting to Support James Van Der Beek Amid Cancer Battle
James Van Der Beek‘s health is keeping him on the sidelines.
The 48-year-old announced he’ll have to skip the planned Dawon’s Creek cast reunion set for Sept. 22 after contracting two stomach viruses as he battles stage 3 colorectal cancer.
“This is the evening I’d been looking forward to MOST since my angel Michelle Williams said she was putting it together, way back in January,” he wrote of his former costar on Instagram Sept. 21. “So you can imagine how gutted I was when two stomach viruses conspired to knock me out of commission and keep me grounded at the worst possible moment.”
“Despite every effort… I won’t get to be there,” he added. “I won’t get to stand on that stage and thank every soul in the theater for showing up for me, and against cancer, when I needed it most.”
The one-night-only event will feature original cast members of the WB teen drama series including Michelle, Katie Holmes, Joshua Jackson, Mary Beth Peil, John Wesley Shipp, Mary-Margaret Humes, Nina Repeta, Kerr Smith, Meredith Monroe and Busy Phillips doing a live reading of the Dawson’s Creek pilot episode at the Richard Rodgers Theatre to benefit the F Cancer foundation.
