James Van Der Beek shocked attendees at a Dawson's Creek reunion with a touching video message after the actor was compelled to drop out of the charity occasion resulting from a abdomen virus.
Throughout his shock look, Van Der Beek thanked his former forged mates and the followers for attending the reside studying of the Dawson's Creek pilot episode to lift cash for F Most cancers.
“I've been wanting ahead to this evening for months and months ever since my angel Michelle Williams stated she was placing it collectively,” Van Der Beek stated. “I can't consider I'm not there. I can't consider I don't get to see my forged mates, my stunning forged in particular person.”
The actor, who introduced that he had been identified with colorectal most cancers in 2024, expressed gratitude for his “beneficiant” followers and forged mates.
“I need to stand on that stage and thank each single particular person within the theater for being right here tonight,” he continued. “From the forged to the crew to all people who's doing something and has been so beneficiant, and particularly each single final one in every of you – you're the finest followers on this planet.”
“It's simply completely humbling simply how a lot you probably did for this evening, and I simply need to say thanks. Thanks to each single particular person right here,” he stated, earlier than introducing his understudy for the night, Lin-Manuel Miranda. “And, clearly, on Dawson's Creek, I had no understudy, however that is Broadway, and I wanted one. So we figured we'd attempt to discover anyone who had by no means understudied on this theater earlier than.”
Van Der Beek had announced simply the evening earlier than that he would now not be capable to attend the charity occasion contracting “two abdomen viruses.”
“Regardless of each effort… I received't get to be there,” Van Der Beek wrote. “I received't get to face on that stage and thank each soul within the theater for exhibiting up for me, and in opposition to most cancers, after I wanted it most.
The remainder of the Dawson's Creek forged have been in attendance, together with Michelle Williams, Katie Holmes, Joshua Jackson, Nina Repeta, Kerr Smith, Meredith Monroe, Mary Beth Peil, John Wesley Shipp, Mary-Margaret Humes and Busy Philipps.
On social media, Van Der Beek lamented not with the ability to attend the reside studying in New York Metropolis, however inspired followers to benefit from the one-night-only occasion.
“Everybody please get pleasure from all of the love in that room. Shine some on my household. I will likely be beaming and receiving from afar in a mattress in Austin,” he wrote.
