{"id":2279652,"date":"2026-02-12T23:42:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2279652"},"modified":"2026-02-12T23:42:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:42:42","slug":"james-van-der-beek-said-years-before-his-death-he-got-almost-nothing-from-dawsons-creek-residuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/james-van-der-beek-said-years-before-his-death-he-got-almost-nothing-from-dawsons-creek-residuals\/","title":{"rendered":"James Van Der Beek said years before his death he got ‘almost nothing’ from \u201cDawson’s Creek\u201d residuals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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James Van Der Beek<\/a> previously opened up about how he got “almost nothing” from Dawson’s Creek <\/em><\/a>residuals, which helps explain why his family is currently struggling financially in the wake of his death.<\/p>\n

“There was no residual money,” Van Der Beek told\u00a0TODAY.com<\/a> in 2012.\u00a0“I was 20.\u00a0It was a bad contract. I saw almost nothing from that.”<\/p>\n

Van Der Beek starred as the titular teen on Dawson’s Creek<\/em>\u00a0for all six seasons, from 1998 through 2003. He revealed in that same 2012 interview that he decided to star in\u00a0Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23 <\/em>“when the [Dawson\u2019s Creek<\/em>] money ran out,” and he realized he needed to “buckle down” and sign on to projects to provide for his wife, Kimberly, and six children.<\/p>\n

“It is very easy if you have all the money in the world to just sit back and coast,” Van Der Beek said at the time. “But if you realized that you are going to have to start providing for yourself and for your family, it really forces you to buckle down.”<\/p>\n

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