American actor Dustin Diamond, who played Screech in the popular TV series “Saved by the Bell”, is hospitalized in Florida (USA), the specialized press reported on Tuesday.
Diamond, 44, was admitted to a hospital in the state over the weekend after feeling full-body pain and general discomfort, according to TMZ, which added that his environment is worried that he would be hospitalized. it could be some kind of cancer.
The actor’s representative confirmed for Hollywood Life that the performer is hospitalized and stressed that “at this moment I am doing more tests to establish” the diagnosis.
According to TMZ, one of the most tests Diamond underwent was a biopsy.
He explained that his concern about a type of cancer was that his family had a history of it, including his mother, who died of breast cancer.
The performer, who played the character Samuel “Screech” Powers, is part of the original cast of the popular 1990s series “Saved by the Bell”, which ran for 4 seasons and was part of the spin-off “Saved by The bell: the college years (“Saved by the bell: the college years”)
Diamond was the only member of the original cast who was not called to relaunch the series last year via the Peacock platform, although the other actors noticed that the door was open.
After the end of the series, his personal life went through some ups and downs.
In 2015, he was sentenced to four months in prison for an altercation in Wisconsin, with a stabbing between them, and five years earlier he had difficulty paying his mortgage.
In 2009, he published a biography, “Behind the Bell”, in which he did not paint a friendly portrait of his former colleagues, which he would later regret, as he confessed in 2016 in an interview with Mario López, who it was part of the show.
Diamond confessed to his former partner that the book was written by another person who interviewed him and later fabricated many of the allegations made in the publication that had to do with drugs and sex.