James Van Der Beek publicly revealed his colon cancer diagnosis in November 2024, preempting a planned report by a tabloid newspaper.The actor shared the news on Instagram, expressing regret that he couldn’t control the timing of the announcement.
Van Der Beek disclosed he received the diagnosis in august 2023.He explained his decision to share the data publicly sooner than he intended was prompted by the impending, unauthorized publication of his medical status. “I apologize to everyone to whom I was not able to tell this myself,” he wrote, adding, “but nothing in this entire process went the way I would have wanted it according to my favorite timeline…”
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