“Saved By The Bell” Star Mark-Paul Gosselaar Opens Up About Dustin Diamond Rumors

When Saved By The Bell star Dustin Diamond died in 2021, rumors swirled that he had fallen from grace and no longer had relationships with his former co-stars. 2019 Mark-Paul Gosselaar told Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live that he hadn’t spoken to Dustin since 1994. However, during a recent panel discussion with fellow Save By The Bell stars Mario Lopez and Elizabeth Berkley, Mark-Paul wanted to set the record straight on Dustin Diamond and their supposed feud. According to People, an audience member asked if the cast members had reconciled with Dustin before his cancer death.  

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Mark-Paul said, “Well, just to clear, there was nothing to reconcile because that beef that was created was created out there, not here,” he explained.

It seems Dustin Diamond didn’t love his time on Saved By The Bell as much as some may have thought, but writing about the experience didn’t’ space other cast members.

“He wrote a book, we kind of looked at it and said, ‘Oh Dustin.’ We never took it personally,” Mark-Paul explained. “Dustin was substantially younger. I say substantially because, you know, when you were a teenager, if you were 17 and somebody was 14, it was light years, right?”

Elizabeth agreed and said, “Honestly, it was more like how after high school, you keep in touch with some friends more than others, but there was not a negative [feeling].”

The cast added that Dustin Diamond was like their little brother and Saved By The Bell wouldn’t have been the same without him.

“Because Saved by the Bell would not have been what it was without him,” Elizabeth added. “And so when we all got back together and did that, I know that they had been planning on and they have actually talked to him. Franco [Barrio], our producer, had talked to him about doing [the show].”

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