Despite looking forward to the long-awaited Dawson’s Creek reunion, actor James Van Der Beek has announced he won’t be in attendance.

“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…” Van Der Beek, 48, wrote via Instagram on Sunday, September 21, just one day before the reunion was scheduled to take place.

“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,” he continued. “Despite every effort… I won’t get to be there. 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.”

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