Dustin Diamond, who played Screech in Saved By The Bell, has been hospitalized.
The star may be battling cancer, reports TMZ.
Discomfort And Unease
Sources at the Diamond team told the publisher that the star was admitted to a Florida hospital last weekend, after experiencing pain all over his body and a “normal general feeling of discomfort and unease”.
Doctors have been conducting tests and biopsy to find out what is wrong, yet her medical team is concerned about being diagnosed with cancer.
Medical Background
It is known that Diamond’s family has a history of the disease, whose mother died of breast cancer, however it is unclear what kind of cancer this might be.
Diamond is famous for playing Screech for four seasons of Saved By The Bell.
The star was significantly not present in the reboot that began in 2020, probably due to his difficult history and show.
Career Performance
While most of Bell’s actors continued to have successful careers like Mario Lopez and Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Diamond did not have an easy time.
He released a sex tape (which he later revealed wasn’t actually him) and a book that painted an unflattering portrait of his colleagues that he similarly back-pedalled on.
Speaking to Oprah’s Where are they now? in 2013 said he “felt lost” when, at 23 years of age, his role as Screech came to an end.
“I wanted a year or two off just to myself because I felt like I’d earned it,” Diamond said.
Three years later in 2009, Diamond released a book detailing what happened behind the scenes of Saved by Bell.
The novel, Behind the Bell, sparked controversy when it revealed that the new characters and young cast were involved in drugs and sex, but Diamond says he did not write anything about it in depth.
“I was a first-time author so they had a ghostwriter,” Diamond said.
“I talked to a guy a few times so the book has some truth in it and a lot of the stories were just throwaways. I expected I was going to be sent a copy to proofread and OK … and I was sent the copy and they said ‘This is done.’”
The most shocking allegations in the pages of this finished product are that Mario Lopez was in love with a woman and raped her and that the US network NBC paid her to keep quiet.
Understandably, Diamond’s former Saved by the Bell co-stars weren’t thrilled by the claims.
