Dustin Diamond debuts new tell-all book

With a sense of timing that’s as questionable as his acting, former ‘Saved by the Bell’ star, Dustin Diamond has chosen the same week Mackenzie Philips is apparently taking up residency on Oprah to release his own tell-all book.

In this acidic, and no doubt unwelcome new thesis, the 32-year old actor claims drugs and wild sex were part of everyday life for those in the cast, “I could smell a certain ‘smoke,’ [he claims it was cannabis] wafting from the crack under their dressing room doors,” he told Us Magazine.

One of the book’s other unproven claims is that Mark Paul Gosselaar  [ 'Zack Morris'] used steroids to bulk up before filming began on 1994′s blessedly short-lived sequel, ‘The College Years.’

“He suddenly exploded with manliness, loading 25-pounds of muscle on his once-scrawny frame in about a month,” says Diamond, who is, surprisingly, no longer in touch with his co-stars.

For balance, let’s be quite clear that Gosselaar, 35, has dismissed Diamond’s claims, “We weren’t in rehab and Mr. Belding wasn’t my crack dealer.” was the quote from his rep.

Dustin also recounts stories of daily sexual exploits among the show’s cast; His chief problem with which seems to be that none involved him, “If Kelly [Tiffani Thiessen] was interested in Slater [Mario Lopez,] there was a lot going on in Mario’s room,” he recalls. “And if Jessie [Elizabeth Berkley] kissed Zack, you know Elizabeth is going to Mark-Paul’s room.”

Justin goes on to state that, in his opinion, Tiffani used guys and sex to advance her career and was a slave to fad-diets, and that Mario Lopez [allegedly] “hit on every co-star.”

Before you rush over to Amazon, bear in mind – this is the guy who started a stand-up career after “Bell’ closed in 2000 that was so vastly successful, he went bankrupt in 2001. He then leaked his own sex tape in 2006, had his SUV repossessed in November,  and is now at great risk of losing his home…in Wisconsin.

But this lurid book and its unproven tales are not, in the slightest way driven by money.

Perish the thought.