James Van Der Beek made his first crimson carpet look since asserting his stage III colorectal most cancers battle.
Van Der Beek, 47, stepped out on the premiere of Sidelined: The QB and Me in Los Angeles on Thursday, November 14. He sported a brown, checked swimsuit with a persimmon-colored sweater beneath.
The actor stars within the Tubi movie, which follows the highschool love story of a dancer and a quarterback, alongside Siena Agudong, Drew Ray Tanner, Noah Beck, Josh Zaharia and Mia Shanks.
Van Der Beek, who was recognized with colorectal most cancers in 2023, revealed his well being scare earlier this month.
“I’m very cautiously optimistic. I’m in a spot of therapeutic, my vitality ranges are nice,” he informed Individuals in a November profile. “After I’ve been out of the woods utterly for what appears like a accountable period of time, I’ll circle again and allow you to know. I’ve quite a bit to dwell for.”
The Dawson’s Creek alum privately accomplished therapy.
“For those who’ve heard about it, I’ve most likely touched on it,” he informed the outlet. “This has been a crash course within the mastery of thoughts, physique, and spirit. I assumed, ‘That is both going to take me out of the physique, or it’s going to show me how you can actually dwell in it.’”
He added, “I’d at all times related most cancers with age and with unhealthy, sedentary life. However I used to be in superb cardiovascular form. I attempted to eat wholesome — or so far as I knew it on the time.”
Van Der Beek stated that his most cancers was found following a colonoscopy process.
“I felt actually good popping out of anesthesia, that I’d lastly achieved it,” he recalled to Individuals. “Then the gastroenterologist stated, in his most nice bedside method, that it was most cancers. I feel I went into shock.”
James is now leaning on his internal circle for help, together with his spouse, Kimberly Van Der Beek, and their six kids: Olivia, 14, Joshua, 12, Annabel,10, Emilia, 8, Gwen, 6, and Jeremiah, 3.
James, who has additionally been candid about Kimberly’s a number of being pregnant losses, underwent a vasectomy shortly after Jeremiah’s beginning.
“I figured the one manner we’re going to cease that is if we’ve some medical intervention,” he joked to Individuals earlier this month. “I stated, ‘Pay attention, guys, you realize Daddy has some surgical procedure on his non-public elements, so simply be actually cautious whenever you run as much as me to not stumble upon something.’”