Dustin Diamond has come under fire for some of the allegations made in his book, Behind The Bell. However, Diamond claims that didn’t really write the book. Now with the Saved By The Bell Lifetime movie on the way, the Screech actor has opened up about the truth behind some of the book’s more sensational claims.
Diamond recently spoke to The Daily Beast about the truth behind his book:
“It was written by a ghost writer. I talked to a guy a few times, so there were people up in arms, ‘Oh! He’s putting all this trash out.’ But I was like, ‘I didn’t even write it!’ It has my name on it, but it was written by a ghost writer. So the things like that, the Fit Club, the porn, and the book were kind of like the one, two, three of the bad-boy image. But I’m done with that. Like I said, I think it backfired a bit. But honestly, on the flip side, I think it did break the image. People did only see me as an 11-year-old goofball from a Saturday morning campy TV show.”
Diamond went on to add that the false events of the book will not play into the film:
“It’s going to be happy. Here’s the thing. It was based on my book, loosely, but that’s not to be taken seriously because the production staff and everybody knows that the way it worked was that I talked to a guy on the phone for a few hours. He was from a French Canadian publishing company, a first-time writer. They didn’t want to trust with me 80,000 words so they gave me a ghost writer. So I talked to him on the phone and he was supposed to take that and write a transcript and fill it out with stories. It tells stories like it’s coming from me, but at one point it refers to someone as a ‘douchenozzle.’ I’ve never used that word in my life. So it’s all coming from this guy who I spoke to a few times. And I was supposed to get a draft copy of the book to proofread, but I never did. I got a final copy, which was what was going to press. I was like, “What the hell? This isn’t right. This isn’t right.’”
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