James Van Der Beek apologizes to loved ones for hiding his cancer diagnosis: 'Plan had to be altered'

"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."

"Apologies to all the people in my life who I'd planned on telling myself. Nothing about this process has occurred on my preferred timeline... But we roll with it, taking each surprise as a signpost, pointing us toward a greater destiny than we would have discovered without divine intervention."

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