If you really want to read Dustin Diamond‘s Saved By the Bell tell-all Behind the Bell but can’t stomach the thought of giving that man ten cents, this blog post is for you!
The site 11 Points has listed the 11 biggest bombshells from the book. An excerpt:
Mario Lopez raped a girl, and NBC paid her hush money. Definitely the most damning accusation in the book… but one that Diamond doesn’t hedge (like many of the upcoming points). He flat-out says that Mario Lopez “lured [a girl] back to his pad… and was forced to have sex against her will.”
NBC’s lawyers stepped in to maintain the image of its clean teen stars, though, and paid the girl to be quiet. “And my understanding,” Diamond writes, “is that it wasn’t a boatload of cash, either, somewhere around fifty grand.”
I found this “Variety” article about Lopez being accused of date rape, so there is other corroboration on this. It’s amazing — back in 1993, before the Internet turned the American celebs gossip press into the British celebs gossip press, a huge “SBTB” fan like me never heard a word of this. If this date rape accusation had happened 15 years later, within moments of the story coming out a photo of A.C. Slater would’ve been on Perez Hilton, complete with a MS Paint mouth semen.
Where’s the press release claiming this never happened, Mario?! Is this rumor possibly true, just as it’s possible Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990?
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