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.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.