Why does former teen superstar James Van Der Beek need help paying medical bills?

As well as expensive treatments, Van de Beek isn’t making the same money he was at the peak of his career decades ago. He has said that he was paid “almost nothing” for his work on “Dawson’s Creek” and that his contract did not include residual fees – payments that writers, actors and directors receive when their works are rerun on television. Actors on other still-popular shows during the same period, such as Friends, are said to have earned around $20 million a year from such payments.