Dustin Diamond dead: Saved By The Bell star dies at 44 after relentless cancer battle
Actor Dustin Diamond has died after battling stage four cancer. The US star was best known for his role as Screech on Saved By The Bell
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On Monday, Dustin Diamond of
Saved by the Bell fame died at the age of 44 following a three-week battle with cancer. Diamond was hospitalized last month and his team announced that the actor was battling carcinoma, a specific kind of cancer that attacks the skin surrounding organs. In a statement, Diamond s spokesperson, Roger Paul, said, Dustin did not suffer. He did not have to lie submerged in pain. For that, we are grateful.
In recent years, Diamond had become a regular subject of controversy. In his time after exiting
Written by Associated Press on February 1, 2021
“Saved by the Bell” star Dustin Diamond died Monday after a three-week fight with cancer, according to his representative. He was 44.
“Dustin did not suffer. He did not have to lie submerged in pain. For that, we are grateful,” the actor’s spokesman, Roger Paul, said in a statement.
Diamond, best known for playing Screech on the hit ’90s sitcom, was hospitalized last month in Florida and his team disclosed later that he had cancer. Diamond had carcinoma.
Former co-star Mario Lopez took to Twitter to say farewell: “Dustin, you will be missed, my man. The fragility of this life is something never to be taken for granted.” Another co-star, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, called Diamond “a true comedic genius,” adding “I will miss those raw, brilliant sparks that only he was able to produce.”
Dustin Diamond, Screech from ‘Saved by the Bell,’ dead at 44
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Dustin Diamond, the actor who played the fun-loving, dippy Screech on ‘90s teen sitcom “Saved by the Bell,” has died. He was 44.
TMZ, which first reported Diamond’s death, said the actor died Monday morning of stage 4 lung cancer small cell carcinoma that started elsewhere in his body.
Diamond was diagnosed with cancer three weeks ago after being hospitalized in Florida.
“In that time, it managed to spread rapidly throughout his system; the only mercy it exhibited was its sharp and swift execution,” the actor’s agent, Roger Paul, said in a statement, as reported by Variety. “Dustin did not suffer. He did not have to lie submerged in pain. For that, we are grateful.”