James Van Der Beek has announced he will not take part in an upcoming “Dawson’s Creek” reunion , due to health issues, citing “two stomach viruses.”

“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…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,” the actor wrote Sept. 21 on Instagram.

Van Der Beek , who announced in November 2024 that he had been diagnosed with Stage 3 colorectal cancer , was set to take part in a Sept. 22 reading of the show’s pilot at New York City’s Richard Rodgers Theatre, along with co-stars Michelle Williams, Katie Holmes, Joshua Jackson, Mary Beth Peil, John Wesle

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