{"id":3382,"date":"2026-03-05T15:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=3382"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:00:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:00:38","slug":"beloved-dawson-creek-stars-wife-shares-gofundme-as-family-struggles-after-cancer-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=3382","title":{"rendered":"Beloved \u2018Dawson Creek\u2019 Star\u2019s Wife Shares GoFundMe As Family Struggles After Cancer Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"182\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">James Van Der Beek<\/span><\/span>, known for <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Dawson\u2019s Creek<\/span><\/span> and <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Varsity Blues<\/span><\/span>, died at 48 after battling stage 3 colorectal cancer.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"184\" data-end=\"491\">Following his death, his wife <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Kimberly Van Der Beek<\/span><\/span> and their six children are facing financial uncertainty. A GoFundMe organized by friends says the family struggled with mounting medical costs during his illness and is now trying to keep their home and maintain stability for the children.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"493\" data-end=\"689\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Van Der Beek was diagnosed in August 2023 and passed away on Feb. 11, surrounded by loved ones. The fundraiser, created to help with living and education expenses, has raised over $700,000 so far.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ob-readmore-th-position\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/38HAyJAhlR4?si=1covo7q5nrXq4xq7\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>James Van Der Beek, known for Dawson\u2019s Creek and Varsity Blues, died at 48 after battling stage 3 colorectal cancer. Following his death, his wife <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=3382\" title=\"Beloved \u2018Dawson Creek\u2019 Star\u2019s Wife Shares GoFundMe As Family Struggles After Cancer Battle\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3384,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions\/3384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}