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The star of Saved by the Bell, Dustin Diamond, died on February 1, 2021.
Dustin Diamond, best known for playing Samuel “Screech” Powers in the hit NBC comedy, Saved by the Bell, Died on February 1, 2021, as reported by TMZ. The famous actor was 44 years old.
The cause of Dsuton Diamond’s death was due to stage 4 cancer, a diagnosis he discovered just three weeks ago. On Monday, Dustin Diamond’s friend Dan Block had told The Sun, “We don’t have a specific time, but we know Dustin needs a miracle to overcome the small cell carcinoma he’s been diagnosed with.”
“He was told the average life expectancy is weeks to five months, but a small percentage of people have lived from one to two years being stage 4 cancer,” Block continued. “We hope she’s one of those people who survives adversity and we spend as much time with her as possible.”
Getty ImagesActor Dustin Diamond joins the cast of “The Awesome 80’s Prom” at Webster Hall on May 21, 2010 in New York City.
A representative of the actor told TMZ that Diamond’s father was by his side when he died on Monday, February 1 in the morning. “His condition had worsened enormously since last week,” according to TMZ. Diamond was removed from the respiratory machines to take the actor to a palliative care center after Dustin Diamond’s cancer metastasized to his lungs.
“It started as a tumor in his neck,” Block revealed. “A big knot in my throat, which was very visible.”
“He was diagnosed with this brutal and relentless form of malignant cancer just three weeks ago,” his representative told In Touch media. “In that time, he managed to spread quickly throughout his system; the only pity he showed was his quick and sharp execution. Dustin did not suffer. He did not have to be immersed in pain. That is why we are grateful. “
Dustin’s mother’s death was also due to cancer, if any, breast cancer. He was previously engaged to Amanda Schutz, but the two never married. In 2009, he married his lifelong girlfriend Jennifer Misner, however, the couple separated in 2013, according to The Sun.
Here’s what you need to know about Dustin Diamond:
1. Dustin Diamond wanted to spend the rest of his life with his girlfriend
Getty ImagesActor Dustin Diamond poses for a portrait during the 2007 Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2007 in Park City, Utah.
On January 12, TMZ reported that Dustin Diamond, who was born on January 7, 1977 in San Jose, California, had been hospitalized in Florida after feeling “full body pain,” which doctors later discovered. which was terminal cancer.
On Jan. 21, Diamond completed its first round of chemotherapy, CNN reported, and another round was already scheduled.
Roger Paul, Dustin Diamond’s representative, told The Sun: “Dustin hopes to spend more time with his girlfriend, play his bass / video games and make videos for his fans on social media.”
2. A friend of Dustin revealed that the actor had 2 wishes before he died
Block told The Sun about Diamond’s last wish. “There are two things Dustin asked for,” he said, “the ability to talk to Justin Chancellor about music and being able to visit Disney World to see Star Wars Galaxy Edge.”
“Dustin was learning to play several songs and wanted to form a band as a tribute to Tool,” Block continued. “He was in the process of starting the band before he was diagnosed with cancer. He was playing the song and playing with his bass while watching YouTube videos.”
3. Diamond appeared in dozens of films after playing the role of Screech
Dustin Diamond spent more than a decade of his life playing the role of Screech in Saved by the Bell, and made numerous derivative series and films for television between 1989 and 2000, according to his page of IMDB.
Like its co-stars, Tiffany Amber Thiessen, Mario Lopes and Mark-Paul Gosselaar, popular comedy served as a starting point to pursue a career on the big screen. Between 2001 and 2020, Dustin Diamond appeared in nearly two dozen films.
He starred Scavengers of scavengers of 2014, played the role of Oliver Jaffe in Bloody hearts of 2015 and, in 2016, played the role of Raynard in the horror film Joker’s Wild.
4. Dustin Diamond published a revealing memoir about life as a child star, revealing BTS details from “Saved By the Bell”
In 2009, Dustin Diamond published a memoir, Behind the bell, Where he aired many dirty rags from his experience as a child star, and how he was really behind the scenes of the famous NBC comedy, stories that inspired a lifetime of film in 2014.
Diamond’s book details the “extreme lifestyle of the cast and crew: sex, drugs, and wild parties,” as he describes it on Amazon. His memoirs “give readers the daunting story of a former childhood star” and the things he had to do to position himself as a dramatic actor after his years playing the beloved comic nerd in high school. of fiction Bayside.
When NBC’s The Peacock repeated Saved by the Bell in 2020, Diamond was not asked to be a part of it. In a November interview with Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live !, former Diamond co-star Elizabeth Berkley revealed that she hadn’t spoken to him “in a long time,” but hoped he might appear in a future season. :
We’ll see if there’s another season. Maybe it’s something to explore and I haven’t talked to him in a long time. Honestly, since I think we finished the show, it’s the last time I talked to him, but not for anything bad. I mean, he was always kind to me and has had his life, but I’ve really kept in touch more with Mark-Paul (Gosselaar), Tiffani (Thiessen), Mario (Lopez) and then every now and then. , Lark. (Voorhies).
5. Diamond fell in hard times and spent time in jail after being convicted of stabbing someone in 2014
Getty ImagesDustin Diamond, second from the left, leaves his preliminary hearing at the Ozaukee County Courthouse on January 5, 2015 in Port Washington, Wisconsin.
Dusti Diamond struggled with his personal life for several after Saved by the Bell came to an end. In 2001, he filed for bankruptcy in California and began a campaign to raise money by selling T-shirts that said, “I paid $ 15 to save Screech’s house,” the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel reported.
In 2006, Dustin Diamond faced foreclosure on his home, and in 2009, We Energies sued the plaintiff in Ozaukee County Circuit Court. The lawsuit claimed that Diamond had $ 2,079.40 in utility bills.
In 2014, Diamond was sentenced to four months in prison in Wisconsin after stabbing someone at a bar, NBC News reported. At the time, Diamond was living in the suburbs of Milwaukee. He was found guilty of stabbing a customer of a bar “in the armpit with a razor.”
Police reported that the injury did not cause fatal injuries to the victim. Her then-fiancée, Amanda Schutz, was also charged and found guilty of disturbing public order.
After 30 days in prison, Diamond was released and later placed on a labor release program. Both he and Schutz had to pay the victim $ 1,500 in damages.
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