{"id":283472,"date":"2026-02-14T07:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T07:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/283472\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T07:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T07:18:10","slug":"why-did-former-teen-superstar-james-van-der-beek-need-help-to-pay-his-medical-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/283472\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did former teen superstar James Van Der Beek need help to pay his medical bills?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">On top of the costly treatments, Van Der Beek was not making the same cash that he&#8217;d seen in the prime of his career decades ago. He had said he was paid &#8220;almost nothing&#8221; for Dawson&#8217;s Creek and his contract didn&#8217;t include residuals &#8211; payments writers, actors and directors receive when their work is re-aired on television. Actors on other still-popular shows from that same period, like Friends, are said to make about $20m annually from such payments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On top of the costly treatments, Van Der Beek was not making the same cash that he&#8217;d seen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-283472","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\/283472","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=283472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}