When James Van Der Beek reflected on life and death amid his cancer battle: ‘I had to look my own mortality’
James Van Der Beek, the actor everyone remembers as Dawson from ‘Dawson’s Creek’, has passed away at 48. He spent more than two years fighting stage 3 colorectal cancer, and he didn’t try to hide any of it. He talked about it with honesty and grit, right up until the end on February 11, 2026….