Will Reeve, 34, of 'Good Morning America' Shares a Personal Health Update – Details

Just months into married life, he found himself confronting a situation that forced him to rethink how closely he listened to his own body. What followed would also bring him face-to-face with a deeply emotional connection to his family's past.

Recently, Will Reeve found himself navigating a health crisis that would test his new marriage almost immediately. It began with a change that seemed easy to dismiss, but what followed eventually brought him back to a place already deeply connected to his family's history.

The 34-year-old ABC News national correspondent is now speaking publicly about the experience for the first time, explaining that the example set by his late parents has shaped the way he is approaching his own difficult chapter.

"I was raised to share one's struggles if, in doing so, that might help others," Will told People in its September 29, 2026 report. For Will, the timing of what happened made the experience particularly emotional.

A New Marriage Before Everything Changed

Only months earlier, Will had married Event Planner Amanda Dubin Reeve, 30, following a romance that almost failed to get past the first date. According to Vogue's account of their nuptials, the pair matched online in the late summer of 2022, although COVID, travel, and scheduling conflicts repeatedly got in the way of meeting.

They finally arranged a date for that fall — only for Will to be unexpectedly sent to the U.K. to report on Queen Elizabeth II's death.

Amanda later texted him condolences while he was working in London, apparently not initially realizing he was there as a television correspondent rather than because of some connection to the royal family. Will then became so consumed with the assignment that he failed to reply for more than a week.

Once he realized what had happened, however, he explained that he had not meant to ghost her and asked for another chance. Amanda agreed, and they finally met for coffee at Banter on Sullivan Street in Greenwich Village.

"It was apparent to both of us right away that there was a connection," Will recalled. "Even potential for something big." The couple became engaged on November 8, 2024, after Will organized an elaborate proposal at Ralph Pucci International in New York's Flatiron District.

With help from Amanda's mother and Will's adoptive parents, Ralph and Ann Pucci — who became an important parental presence in Will's life after he lost his own parents — he arranged flowers, candles, a photographer, and even a harpist. Amanda initially believed they were simply stopping at an event at the gallery.

Will eventually had to tell her, "I'm going to need you to put your phone away," before leading her through the space and proposing in front of a window overlooking the Empire State Building.

Their wedding followed on January 17, 2026, at the Rubell Museum in Miami, with approximately 300 guests taking part in a weekend filled with deeply personal touches. For Will, many of those details were about making sure his late parents, Christopher and Dana Reeve, remained part of the day.

He wore gold cufflinks that had belonged to his father and a brooch belonging to his mother. Amanda also gave him a pocket square embroidered with the words "I love you" in Dana's handwriting, taken from an old letter. The newlyweds even wore Christopher and Dana's wedding bands, which Will's family had preserved for decades.

Will walked down the aisle to Norah Jones's "Sunrise," one of his mother's favorite songs and one Norah had performed at Dana's memorial service in 2006. Two chairs at the ceremony were deliberately left empty, each marked with a flower in honor of his parents. "I thought about all the moments in my life they'd missed out on," Will said, "but also how present they felt in the room and in the ceremony."

Later, he shared a special mother-son dance with Ann, who, along with her husband and children, had taken him in following his mother's death nearly two decades earlier. It was the start of married life Will and Amanda had spent years building toward. Then, only a few months later, their vows were tested in a way neither could have anticipated.

The Health Scare That Changed Their Newlywed Year

Will has recently revealed that this past spring he was diagnosed with testicular cancer, which later spread to lymph nodes in his abdomen. However, the good news is significant: following treatment, Will said he was cancer-free as of a September 8 checkup. "I'm going to be fine," he said. "But this was a heck of a chapter."

The first warning came in April, when Will was taking a shower and noticed a tender lump on one of his testicles. His initial reaction was hardly one of alarm. "I assumed it was nothing or would go away," Will recalled.

However, Amanda, who had been his wife for only about three months at the time, was less willing to take that chance. "It's probably nothing," she told him, "but what if it's something?" She encouraged him to get an ultrasound — a decision that would soon prove enormously important. "I was stunned," Will said.

Surgery Came Quickly

By early May, Will underwent an orchiectomy to remove the cancerous testicle, the standard surgical procedure used in cases of testicular cancer. The operation carried another layer of anxiety because Will had barely any personal experience with surgery. "I hadn't had surgery since I got my tonsils out at 5," he explained.

"So I was more nervous about the unknown of the surgery rather than the overwhelming realization that I would be losing an essential part of my body forever." Will took several days away from work while recovering.

He has repeatedly credited Amanda with not only encouraging him but persuading him to have the lump checked rather than waiting to see whether it disappeared. "We talk about 'in sickness and in health,'" he said. "We got an early test of our vows, just a few months in."

Amanda saw something reassuring in the way they responded together. "The silver lining was that we had validation early in the marriage that we are well-equipped to tackle anything," she shared.

Another Major Question for the Newlyweds

The diagnosis also forced the couple to confront a subject that was especially important so soon after their wedding: whether they would still be able to have children. Will underwent sperm banking because he and Amanda want to start a family. While he explained that an orchiectomy does not necessarily prevent natural conception, he said they did not want to leave their future plans to chance.

"We do want to start a family," he said. "And while an orchiectomy doesn't prevent natural conception, you never know, so you want to be safe." Will also told “Good Morning America” (“GMA”) that the couple's ability to become parents had been one of their biggest concerns following his diagnosis.

Because of the steps they took, Will said they will be able to have biological children in the future through medically necessary IVF. "We really want to be parents, and the great joy is that we are going to be able to have children, our own children," he said. "And that's what we want to do."

Then Came More Difficult News

Initially, Will and Amanda hoped the entire ordeal would amount to what he called "a momentary blip in an otherwise great time in my life." Further testing, however, made clear that his treatment was not finished. Will said 95 percent of the testicular cancer identified was embryonal carcinoma, an aggressive form of the disease.

That finding led to another major procedure. On June 10, Will underwent a six-hour operation to remove dozens of lymph nodes from his abdomen. Three of those lymph nodes tested positive for testicular cancer. That result meant Will would also need two rounds of chemotherapy.

Still, he said the doctors treating him consistently emphasized another word beginning with C. "Every doctor I saw along the way was using what I call the good C-word — 'cure,'" Will noted. He took roughly two and a half weeks away from "GMA" while recovering from the operation.

His Treatment Brought His Family History Full Circle

There was another aspect of the experience Will could hardly ignore. His father, "Superman" Actor Christopher, had been thrown from a horse when Will was only two years old, leaving the actor paralyzed from the neck down. Will grew up watching Christopher and his mother, Dana, advocate for spinal cord injury awareness and research and establish the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.

Christopher died in 2004 at age 52. Two years later, Dana died from lung cancer at just 44 years old. Will was only 13.

Will's own diagnosis therefore led to a surreal and painful coincidence: 20 years after his mother died from cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering, he found himself inside the same institution receiving cancer treatment of his own.

"The irony is not lost on me that 20 years after my mom died of lung cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering, there I was in the same building getting treated for cancer," he said. The experience, he explained, gave him an unexpected perspective on both of his parents at once. As a cancer patient, he felt he was gaining some understanding of what his mother had endured.

At the same time, relying on Amanda during treatment helped him better understand what life had been like for his father during the final nine years of Christopher's life, when Dana and the rest of the family helped care for him.

"And there I was with my wife, who, since the day I met her, has reminded me in so many ways of my mom, now playing the role of wife and caregiver," Will reflected.

Going from 'GMA' to Chemotherapy

Even while receiving treatment, Will tried to maintain as much normalcy as he could. On chemotherapy days, he sometimes went directly from the "GMA" studios, where he is a frequent contributor, to the hospital. He also underwent cold-capping in an effort to preserve his hair.

Never one to miss the humor in an uncomfortable situation, Will joked that the helmet "looked like the under side [sic] of a manta ray." Anti-nausea medication helped considerably. "I never really felt sick at all," he said, although the side effects did not disappear entirely.

Among them were 24-hour headaches and bone pain, symptoms Will described as a kind of "ailment whack-a-mole." He completed his second round of chemotherapy on July 31, taking several days off after each round to recover. "My colleagues at ABC are like family to me and have been with me every step of the way," he said.

Why Getting Checked Mattered Significantly

Looking back now, Will believes one decision made a crucial difference: he did not continue ignoring that first physical change. "I'm fortunate that I caught this early," he said. "Yes, I had to jump through some flaming hoops to get to the other side, but it could have been much worse had I ignored it or delayed going to the doctor."

His follow-up care will initially involve scans and bloodwork three to four times per year to monitor for a possible recurrence, with that frequency expected to decrease over time. "The experience has taught me to pay attention to my body," Will shared. It has also reinforced another lesson: "And lean on your people.”

For Will, that support began with Amanda but extended to his siblings, Alexandra and Matthew Reeve, as well as extended family, close friends and colleagues.

He said the experience has also pushed him to "live even more intentionally and simply." "It's easy to get caught up in the madness of modern life and forget what's most important," he added.

'I Learned Grief All over Again'

Will’s life has already included extraordinary loss. He was only a child when his father's accident reshaped daily life for the entire family, and he later watched Christopher live for years unable to move or breathe independently. "And then he died, and I had to learn what grief was," Will recalled.

Not long afterward came another devastating blow. His mother — who Will noted had never smoked — developed lung cancer and died. "I learned grief all over again at a different level," he said. That history, however, also gave Will a model for how adversity could be transformed into something constructive.

"Watching my parents up close take the adversity they faced in their lives and repurpose it into something hopeful left a major impact on my life and how I try to live it," he said. Now that lesson has become intensely personal.

Will said the love he has received from family, friends, and even strangers throughout his life helped convince him to speak about his diagnosis — not simply to tell people what happened, but in the hope that his experience might help somebody else pay attention to their own body.

And he has one request for those who might feel sympathy for what he has been through. "For all the people who care about me, I'm so grateful and also ask that any sympathy one might have be channeled into love and care for those closest to them," Will Reeve stated, "because we all need to love and care for the people in our lives."