James Van Der Beek found a way to make a surprise — and rare — virtual appearance at the Dawson’s Creek cast reunion amid his cancer battle.

Ahead of the Monday, September 22, live reading of the Dawson’s Creek pilot at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway, Van Der Beek, 48, revealed he wouldn’t be able to attend while healing from an illness.

“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,” he wrote via Instagram on Sunday, September 21. “Despite every effort … I won’t get to be there. I won’t get to stand on that stage and thank every soul i

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