Busy and Joe Battle Brain Tumors Together | Durham News

Durham News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Aug 27, 2026 · 1m

Busy Philipps and Joe Amabile, both from Bachelor Nation, are sharing their powerful journeys after discovering brain tumors — a shocking twist that brought them together in unexpected solidarity. Joe, who revealed his diagnosis in July, is now weeks post-surgery and already planning to run a marathon, while Busy shared her story just recently, after a full-body scan in February caught a slow-growing, malignant tumor — one she almost skipped due to grief over her Dawson’s Creek co-star James Van Der Beek’s cancer death. Her ex-husband convinced her to go ahead, and though surgery was…