The new Us Weekly (on newsstands now) has a sneak peek at Dustin Diamond’s shocking tell-all, Behind the Bell, which claims drug use and sex were rampant on the set of the hit NBC Saturday-morning sitcom Saved By the Bell.
“I could smell a certain ‘smoke,’ wafting from from the crack” underneath his castmates’ dressing rooms, says Diamond, 32, who played the dork Screech.
He also alleges costar Mark Paul Gosselaar — who played popular Zack Morris — used steroids before production started on 1994′s short-lived Saved by the Bell: The College Years.
“He suddenly exploded with manliness, loading 25 pounds of muscle on his once-scrawny frame in, oh, about a month,” says Diamond, who is not in touch with any of his costars. (Gosselaar, 35, has dismissed his costar’s so-called revelations to Us: “We weren’t in rehab and Mr. Belding wasn’t my crack dealer.” His rep had no comment.)
Diamond — who filed for bankruptcy in 2001 and had his own sex tape released in 2006 — goes on to say his costars hooked up off-camera.
“If Kelly [Tiffani Thiessen] was interested in Slater [Mario Lopez] one week, then backstage there was a lot going between them in Mario [Lopez]‘s room,” he tells the new Us Weekly. “Then, if Jessie [Elizabeth Berkley] kisses Zack, then you know Elizabeth Berkley is going in Mark-Paul’s room.”
Diamond’s claims include how he says Thiessen used guys to further her career; how he says Thiessen struggled with her weight and how he says Mario Lopez was a serial womanizer who “hit on every costar”.
Recently, the Saved By the Bell cast did a reunion photo shoot for People Magazine. Can you guess which Cast member wasn’t invited to join? Yup, Screech. It has been said that due to his lack of communication with the rest of the cast, his sex tape, and his upcoming tell all book, he was intentionally left out of the shoot. Honestly, no matter how much of a douche this guy is, you just can’t leave Screech out of Saved By The Bell reunion photo. It’s just not the same without the geek.
The rest of the cast still looks great, and I came across a picture of Zack’s real life wife and it’s obvious he is still pulling schemes to this day. Milf!
