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Late “Saved by nan Bell” prima Dustin Diamond erstwhile pulled a weapon connected a chap character during an on-set argument, a erstwhile accumulation adjunct claims.
“I don’t retrieve what started it,” erstwhile “Saved by nan Bell: nan New Class” accumulation adjunct Scott DeVaney says successful nan “Hollywood Demons” docuseries section “After nan Bell.”
According to DeVaney, who didn’t sanction nan different actor, during nan incident, Diamond shouted, “I could person you fired” astatine nan unnamed chap formed member.
This “led to Dustin pulling retired a butterfly knife. It’s a very physically threatening thing,” he claims.
DeVaney alleges that Diamond “didn’t effort to strike” nan different character pinch a knife, but nan altercation ended “with [Diamond] successful tears, and he runs off.”
The erstwhile accumulation adjunct explains connected nan docuseries that his “best read” connected nan business was that Diamond was “pulling retired each nan stops to show his power, but reached this affectional crescendo pinch these threats … I deliberation moving disconnected and crying was nan only way available.”
Diamond starred successful “Saved by nan Bell,” arsenic nan nerdy Screech from 1989 to 1993, and reprised nan domiciled for “Saved by nan Bell: The New Class,” which aired from 1993 to 2000.
He died of crab astatine property 44 in 2021.
According to DeVaney, erstwhile Diamond was connected “The New Class,” he was coming disconnected nan large deed of nan first show, “but he was still an insecure teen astatine that time,” who wanted to show everyone, “‘I’m nan large boss, I’ve sewage nan gravitas, I’m really nan prima of nan show.”
The accumulation adjunct claims that during his clip connected “The New Class,” he saw Diamond “treat a batch of group poorly.”
Diamond’s clip connected “The New Class” was “pretty bananas from nan jump,” DeVaney says.
His dressing room was, “immediately a small odd. He had pictures of knives and guns successful his dressing room,” DeVaney says.
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Diamond’s friend, Mark Bridge, confirms successful nan doc that Diamond utilized to transportation a pouch weapon around.
Diamond’s father, besides named Mark, besides confirms that he sewage a telephone telephone aft nan incident, telling him that Dustin “threatened somebody.”
He adds that his boy was “dealing pinch difficult things,” specified arsenic his brother’s decease astatine property 8 from a bosom condition, and his mother was besides dying of cancer, astatine nan time.
Diamond had a rocky way aft “Saved by nan Bell,” including a activity tape, and a 2014 arrest, pursuing an altercation successful which he allegedly stabbed a man in a Wisconsin bar.
In 2015, he was convicted of carrying a concealed limb and disorderly conduct, and served 3 months successful jail. He was concisely sent backmost to jailhouse for violating his probation and failing a supplier test.
Some of his friends appeared successful nan doc to opportunity that they judge he was misunderstood.
Lizette Santiago, different erstwhile friend, says that Diamond “wasn’t utilized to group caring astir him.”
She recalls that he sewage a batch of “hate” from nan public, and said, “there was a clip we were stepping successful New York City and I deliberation personification threw thing astatine us, for illustration ‘Screech sucks.’”
In a uncommon interview, Diamond’s chap “Saved by nan Bell” formed personnel Lark Voorhies says successful nan doc, “That was my very bully friend. I miss him.”
“After nan Bell” airs Monday, May 4 astatine 9 p.m. connected ID and streams connected HBO Max.
