James Van Der Beek has unfortunately had to drop out of the upcoming Dawson’s Creek reunion.

The 48-year-old actor, who played Dawson Leery, was set to reunite with his co-stars for a live reading of the pilot episode as part of a benefit for his own cancer journey.

However, the night before the reading was to take place (on Monday, September 22nd), James took to social media to announce he can no longer attend due to illness, and he revealed the actor who will step in to read his lines.

“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…” James shared on Instagram . “So you can imagine how gutted I was when two stomach viruses conspired to knock me out of commission and keep me gro

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