{"id":30184,"date":"2026-07-01T15:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=30184"},"modified":"2026-07-01T15:00:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:00:58","slug":"dawsons-creek-stars-wife-shares-gofundme-amid-family-struggles-after-cancer-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=30184","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dawson\u2019s Creek\u2019 Star\u2019s Wife Shares GoFundMe Amid Family Struggles After Cancer Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ad_ph\">\n<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"84\" data-end=\"374\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">James Van Der Beek<\/span><\/span>, best known for <em data-start=\"138\" data-end=\"154\">Dawson\u2019s Creek<\/em> and <em data-start=\"159\" data-end=\"174\">Varsity Blues<\/em>, has died at age 48 following a battle with stage 3 colorectal cancer. He passed away surrounded by his family, leaving behind 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.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"376\" data-end=\"654\">In the aftermath of his death, a GoFundMe campaign organized by friends of the family reports that Kimberly is facing serious financial strain while trying to maintain stability for the children, including keeping their home and covering essential living and education expenses.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"656\" data-end=\"822\">The fundraiser has already received significant community support, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars as the family navigates an uncertain and difficult future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\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":"<p>James Van Der Beek, best known for Dawson\u2019s Creek and Varsity Blues, has died at age 48 following a battle with stage 3 colorectal cancer. He passed away surrounded by his family, leaving behind his wife, Kimberly Van Der Beek, and their six children. In the aftermath of his death, a GoFundMe campaign organized by&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=30184\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;\u2018Dawson\u2019s Creek\u2019 Star\u2019s Wife Shares GoFundMe Amid Family Struggles After Cancer Battle&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30186,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30184\/revisions\/30186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}