James Van Der Beek Says He Was Forced To Come Out With His Cancer News -- Apologizes To Loved Ones Who Learned About His Diagnosis Online
James Van Der Beek is opening up more about his cancer. On Sunday, the Dawson’s Creek alum shocked fans after revealing a colorectal cancer diagnosis.
He told People he’s been “privately dealing with this diagnosis and [has] been taking steps to resolve it.” The 47-year-old noted there’s “reason for optimism” and that he’s “feeling good,” but didn’t share anything else in terms of how long he’s been battling the disease, what stage it’s in, or what he means by “there’s reason for optimism.” But he’s since revealed that sharing the news in this way wasn’t his plan… But he was forced to.
Hours after going public with the news through People, James took to Instagram to talk more about it: However, that plan was unfortunately derailed when he was informed that his deeply personal news was going to leak.
He wrote: How awful! Poor James. It already must be so tough to navigate his diagnosis, but adding this stress on top of it all must have been just so hard… Related: ’90s MTV Star Chose Alternative Medicine Over Double Mastectomy — Now Her Cancer Is Stage 4 The One Tree Hill star concluded by apologizing to loved ones who had to learn about the news online due to the unfortunate way he was forced to go public with the news on an accelerated timeline: See his full post (below): James got a ton of support in the comments, including from his wife Kimberly, whom he shares six children with.
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