RIP Screech

[XCR1250]

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[Kivalo]

Well thank God it wasn't Kelly Kapowski. Yummy!!

But yeah RIP Screech.

[Blackstar]

He was an interesting character.  RIP

 

 

In 2001, Diamond filed for bankruptcy in California. On June 13, 2006, he asked The Howard Stern Show listeners to visit his website and purchase a t-shirt. He said he hoped to sell 30,000, which read "I paid $15.00 to save Screeech's house" (spelling "Screech" with an extra E for copyright reasons) in order to raise $250,000 and avoid foreclosure on his house.^[30]

In 2006, Diamond directed and released his own celebrity sex tape, Screeched – Saved by the Smell. Several years later, Diamond said in a Where Are They Now? interview on the Oprah Winfrey Network that he was not in the sex tape; rather, a stunt double had his likeness superimposed.

He appeared as a host at the 12th annual Gathering of the Juggalos.

In 2009, Diamond published an inside story of the show's cast and crew, from his point of view, titled Behind the Bell.^[15] The book paints an unflattering portrait of many of Diamond's colleagues and their alleged, sordid backstage behavior; some of these claims have been repudiated by Diamond's colleagues and questioned by critics.^[16] Diamond also alleges, in the book, that he has had sex with 2,000 women, one of them NBC's VP of children's programming, Linda Mancuso, who was 18 years his senior.^[17][18]

Diamond later commented on the book's content in a December 2013 appearance on a "Where Are They Now" segment on the OWN Network in which he stated that the book was ghost written by an author who simply interviewed him and compiled the book from his answers. He claimed that many parts of the book, such as allegations of teen sex and drug use, were fabricated from very minor statements he made during the interviews, such as his remark, "Yeah, there were a bunch of kids on set with hormones so...what do you think?"

On December 26, 2014, Diamond was arrested in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, for possession of a switchblade knife, which he was alleged to have pulled during a bar altercation in which a man was stabbed.^[31][32][33] Amanda Schutz, his fiancée,^[34] was found guilty of disorderly conduct and fined $500.^[35] On May 29, 2015, he was convicted of two misdemeanors: carrying a concealed weapon and disorderly conduct. He was cleared of the most serious charge, recklessly endangering public safety.^[36] On June 25, he was sentenced to four months in jail.^[37] He served three months and was released on probation. His probation agent determined that he had violated his terms, and he was rearrested in May 2016.