James Van Der Beek wanted to share his cancer diagnosis on his “own terms.”
Just hours after the “Dawson’s Creek” alum revealed his colorectal cancer diagnosis in a statement to People published Sunday, he took to Instagram to explain why the news had to come out sooner than he expected.
“There’s no playbook for how [to] announce these things, but I’d planned on talking about it at length with People magazine at some point soon… to raise awareness and tell my story on my own terms,” the actor captioned a video montage reel.
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