James Van Der Beek has opened up about new particulars relating to his well being a month after going public with his Stage 3 colorectal most cancers.

The Dawson’s Creek alum just lately appeared onGood Morning America for his first dwell tv interview with Robin Roberts since revealing his most cancers analysis to Folks journal. “Bodily, I’m nice. I’m feeling actually good emotionally. , it’s quite a bit,” he advised Roberts about his well being.

Van Der Beek defined how “shocked” he was when he first obtained his analysis due to how wholesome he thought he was. “I used to be doing what I assumed I wanted to do by getting a colonoscopy, which clearly, I did have to do,” he mentioned.

The Varsity Blues actor beforehand admitted that he was having irregular bowel actions earlier than receiving his analysis. He tried to chop espresso out of his food plan to repair the issue, however when it didn’t work he went to the hospital.

“I used to be in wonderful cardiovascular form. I used to be consuming what I assumed was wholesome, and I had an entire agenda for what I assumed my yr could be and what I assumed my priorities could be within the subsequent couple of weeks and months,” he advised Roberts. “And the fact that each one of that was going to vary and take a distinct trajectory — it felt like a nightmare, truthfully, at first, that I couldn’t fairly get up from. And yeah, it’s quite a bit.”

Since receiving his analysis, Van Der Beek mentioned he’s spent about “90 p.c of the time” specializing in what life modifications he could make that he by no means would have made earlier than and feeling grateful for a way these modifications can profit him.

As for the opposite 10 p.c, he was “a sobbing, terrified mess.” “However, yeah, it’s been an train in simply being current to all of it and actually simply permitting the concern to return up and have a look at it and in addition say, ‘All proper, why is that this in my prescription? Why are all these feelings developing and the way can this be nice for me?’”

The actor additionally talked about how grateful he was for his household’s assist, together with his spouse Kimberly and their six kids: Olivia, Joshua, Annabel, Emilia, Gwendolyn, and Jeremiah.

“A few of them are very outward with their fears, and so they discuss them and a few of them, it manifests in different methods and different behavioral methods or they get actually quiet,” he mentioned about his kids. “If I might get them to cease calling it butt most cancers, I’d be psyched. My six-year-old nearly each different day goes, ‘Daddy, how’s your butt most cancers going?’ So, yeah, they hold it gentle.”

Van Der Beek’s most cancers analysis was first revealed in an announcement revealed in Folks journal. “I’ve colorectal most cancers. I’ve been privately coping with this analysis and have been taking steps to resolve it, with the assist of my unimaginable household,” the assertion learn. “There’s purpose for optimism, and I’m feeling good.”

Colorectal most cancers is a sort of most cancers that begins in both the colon or the rectum, that are each a part of the big gut within the physique’s digestive system.