{"id":192167,"date":"2025-12-19T18:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/192167\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T18:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:30:07","slug":"james-van-der-beek-makes-jaw-dropping-confession-about-his-cancer-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/192167\/","title":{"rendered":"James Van Der Beek makes jaw-dropping confession about his cancer diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"James<\/p>\n

James Van Der Beek makes jaw-dropping confession about his cancer diagnosis\u00a0<\/p>\n

James Van Der Beek recently got candid and opened up about his colorectal cancer diagnosis.<\/p>\n

On Friday, December 19, the 48-year-old American actor appeared on Today show, where he touched on different topics with Craig Melvin.<\/p>\n

During the conversation, Beek revealed that he was first diagnosed with third stage colorectal cancer in 2023 and how he felt after finding a life-changing disease.<\/p>\n

Voicing his thoughts, the Dawson\u2019s Creek star said, “I went into shock. But you know, one of the things I was really lucky about was when I heard the news, I was like, \u2018This is gonna be the best thing that\u2019s ever happened to me.\u2019”<\/p>\n

He added, “I had this little voice in my head that said, \u2018You\u2019re gonna make changes in your life that you would never, ever make if you didn\u2019t have this extreme of a diagnosis, and it\u2019s gonna add healthy, happy years to your life.'”<\/p>\n

Being honest, Beek went on to confess that his battle with cancer gave him a new perspective as he started to appreciate things in a new light. <\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t think I knew what it was to slow down before. I don\u2019t think I knew what it was to really look at everything I eat, everything I put in my body,\u201d he quipped.<\/p>\n

Notably, the \u201cbiggest change\u201d that came in the Dancing with the Star dancer\u2019s life after cancer diagnosis was \u201cself-love.\u201d<\/p>\n

“What I realized was is, I\u2019m still worthy of love \u2014 my own love, God\u2019s love,\u201d James Van Der Beek stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Van Der Beek makes jaw-dropping confession about his cancer diagnosis\u00a0 James Van Der Beek recently got candid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-192167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}