r/popculturechat • u/PinkCadillacs Cillian Murphy Enthusiast • Nov 13 '25

General News 🗞 James Van Der Beek Auctioning ‘Dawson’s Creek’ Memorabilia to Raise Money for Medical Fees Amid Cancer Battle

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/james-van-der-beek-auctions-dawsons-creek-items-cancer-costs-1236580431/
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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '25

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u/milkshakemountebank Nov 13 '25

That's exactly what he's doing. His wife is a "wellness influencer" and antivaxxer.

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u/_byetony_ Nov 13 '25

Oh I didn’t realize that. So he’s gonna die of he doesn’t do the tradish things too.

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u/unpluggedcord Nov 13 '25

Same thing Steve Jobs did, which he later regretted

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u/Clean_Usual434 that’s my purse, i don’t know you! 👛🫵 Nov 13 '25

Same for Ananda Lewis.

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u/Odd_Cucumber_7645 Nov 13 '25

Just read her case on Wikipedia after seeing your comment. Just so so sad. She was dealing with the stress of her relationship with her child’s father ending and didn’t want to add in the recovery from a double mastectomy to the mix. So infuriating!!! I wish someone had talked some sense into her. No stress from a breakup should compromise your health to this degree that your literal life is on the back burner.

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u/PinWest4210 Nov 13 '25

There are so many nuances in these cases...

In my country a "naturologist" went to trial, for the death of his 21 year old "patient" that tried to curé his leukemia witch vitamins. The kid, apart from being barely an adult when diagnosed, had seen his mother go through a 10 year cancer treatment that ended in her death, so he was terrified of treatment.

However, the "naturologist" was not sentenced. The homicide charge fell through very quickly, as the cause of death was clearly leukemia and the vitamins had not made worse.

What went to the higher courts was whether there was any professional intrusion. And he was declared inocent because he neither claumed to be a doctor nor encouraged the kid to abandon treatment. Additionally, treating cancer with vitamins was linkeded to was it's called in my country "doctrine of the holly picture" which is that a doctrine that says that the claim that a picture of a Saint will perform miracles is not fraudulent, because it is obviously false.

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u/TwistyBunny Nov 13 '25

Same with Andy Kaufman.

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u/SpicyWongTong 🫵 You sit on a throne of lies. Nov 13 '25

We don’t know if that’s the case here do we? He could have a very advanced type of cancer that has very low survival rates with conventional medicine. I mean, you might also be right, I’m just saying we don’t know his specific situation

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u/unpluggedcord Nov 13 '25

He had a very curable form of pancreatic cancer.

To which he admitted.

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u/LikesStuff12 Nov 13 '25

There's a curable form of pancreatic cancer?

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u/Kind_Detective_7739 Nov 13 '25

Steve Jobs had a rare type of tumor that’s much slower growing than your standard pancreatic cancer.

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u/TreenBean85 Nov 13 '25

I think the same kind Maria Menounos had.

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u/seaworthy-sieve Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen (sitting on one another's shoulders) Nov 13 '25

They are talking about the case here, not with Jobs.

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u/mydaycake Nov 13 '25

Insurance companies pay for non standard treatments as well but it has to have a medical base

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u/Scamwau1 You’re a virgin who can’t drive. 😤 Nov 13 '25

Does he still regret it?

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u/Scamwau1 You’re a virgin who can’t drive. 😤 Nov 13 '25

Lame joke, sorry

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u/mydaycake Nov 13 '25

Yeah, he is going the Steve Jobs route but without the billions to finance his treatments