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.