In Capeside, these residents stick together.

Twenty-two years after last appearing on the hit WB drama, “Dawson’s Creek, ” Mary-Margaret Humes is supporting her former on-screen son, James Van Der Beek .

The actress, 71, who played Dawson Leery’s mom, Gale Leery, during the show’s six-season run, from 1998 to 2003, revealed she privately battled colon cancer in 2007. 10

The news comes days before the “Dawson’s Creek” cast is set to reunite on Monday for an F Cancer benefit. The charity event will support Van Der Beek, 48, who announced in 2024 that he was diagnosed with stage 3 colorectal cancer .

“It was just about ready to break out of the wall,” Humes told Us Weekly in an interview published Tuesday. “It could’ve been a terrible situation, but we caught it in time.

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