GOOD TERMS

‘Dawson’s Creek’ Star Offered Blessing to Ex-Wife Before Passing

Heather McComb remarried 16 years after her divorce from James Van Der Beek.

Heather McComb said that she received blessings from her ex-husband on her new marriage before his passing. “Just to have his blessing on this marriage was something that I will always hold in my heart,” McComb, 49, the ex-wife of the late actor James Van Der Beek, said in an interview with Us Weekly. The Dawson’s Creek star died on Feb. 11, 2026, due to colorectal cancer, leaving behind his wife, Kimberly Van Der Beek, whom he was married to for 16 years and had six children with. The two wed the same year as McComb and Van Der Beek’s divorce, which came after seven years of marriage. Given McComb’s statement, the two seem to have ended on amicable terms. “I think that when I look back, that is really what I hold in my heart—how he loved everybody in his life, especially Kimberly and those beautiful kids.” McComb married actor and writer Scott Michael Campbell on May 30, just under four months after the passing of her ex-husband. Kimberly has since spoken out about her husband’s passing. In a tribute to her husband posted to her Instagram three months after his passing, she said, “Words just don’t capture what grief is.”