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Lisa Turtle is back.
Former “Saved by nan Bell” prima Lark Voorhies is speaking retired successful a uncommon question and reply pursuing her schizoaffective thought upset diagnosis, and her retreat from nan spotlight.
“For immoderate young women, if they’re successful this business…don’t springiness up,” Lark, 52, says successful a caller “Hollywood Demons” docuseries section airing Monday.
The episode, which Page Six has seen, is titled “After The Bell, and features erstwhile “Saved by nan Bell” formed and unit members reflecting connected their experiences.
Former formed personnel Ed Alonzo exclusively told Page Six that he saw Lark past twelvemonth astatine “Saved by nan Bell” shaper Peter Engel’s memorial, and she seemed “good.”
He remembered her arsenic a “quiet and shy” girl, who would “explode and travel to life” erstwhile nan cameras were on.
“The documentary talks astir immoderate things that mightiness beryllium going connected pinch her, but I didn’t really announcement immoderate of that,” he told Page Six, adding that she seemed “normal” and “shy.”
In nan doc, Lark besides says that moreover though she spent years retired of nan spotlight, she is not retired.
“I look guardant to working,” she noted.
Lark starred arsenic nan fashionable Lisa Turtle connected “Saved by nan Bell” from 1989 to 1993, and later went connected to enactment successful “Days of Our Lives,” “The Bold and nan Beautiful” and “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.”
She reprised her “Saved by nan Bell” domiciled connected nan 2020 Peacock revival, but she had a profession spread from 2001 to 2008.
Her mom, Tricia Voorhies, besides appears onscreen to talk astir Lark’s test of schizoaffective thought disorder.
During Lark’s 7 years retired of nan spotlight, Tricia says she was going done intelligence and affectional “conflicts,” including “bouts of anger…she sometimes would beryllium slamming nan doors, aliases yelling retired of frustration.”
Tricia says that Lark besides would “run retired of nan house, and I didn’t cognize wherever she was.”
Her mother worried that location was thing successful Lark’s puerility that she “didn’t cognize about…I was seeing thing impacting my girl that wasn’t healthy, that wasn’t good.”
Lark gave a rambling question and reply to Entertainment Tonight successful 2015, alarming nan public. She was diagnosed astir 2015, and publically disclosed her information successful 2020.
“First, I was told she was bipolar. Then nan caller test is that she has schizoaffective thought disorder,” her mother explained.
Dr. Drew Pinsky besides appears successful nan doc to explicate that nan upset often comes connected erstwhile personification is betwixt 18 to 22, and Lark was 19 erstwhile she vanished “Saved by nan Bell.”
He notes that it’s different from schizophrenia, it’s not “progressive” and not “disabling.”
Symptoms see hallucinations, delusions and disorganized speech, he says.
Lark’s father, Wayne, “had indicators of things…when we were married, his anger frightened me,” Tricia explains onscreen, adding that she divided Lark’s begetter erstwhile Lark was a toddler.
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“When she was astir 12 aliases 13, she spent clip pinch him, and talked astir his anger fits,” Tricia recalls.
When he died astir 2016, Tricia recovered paperwork with, “medication which indicated location was immoderate benignant of characteristic disorder,” she says onscreen.
When asked if Lark knew astir this, her mother says, “I don’t deliberation so, no. I didn’t show her that, truthful she’ll learn, now.’”
Text onscreen successful nan doc says that Lark “embraces” treatment, and is presently “accepting opportunities successful podcasting, TV, film, and normal appearances that supply a system accumulation environment.”
The doc besides says that Lark was nan only “Saved by nan Bell” formed personnel who reached retired to Dustin Diamond earlier he died of crab astatine 44 successful 2021.
“That was my bully friend, I miss him,” she says onscreen.
Lark besides dated her “Saved by nan Bell” co-star Mark Paul Gosselaar, 52, from 1989 to 1992.
“It each happened successful nan span of nan show, nary of america dated aft nan show was cancelled,” he said connected nan “Inside of You With Michael Rosenbaum” podcast successful 2022.
“After nan Bell” airs Monday, May 4 astatine 9 p.m. connected ID and streams connected HBO Max.
