Lark Voorhies is best known for playing rich teen Lisa Turtle on the NBC sitcom “Saved By the Bell”. She is one of four cast members to be carried over from the original Disney Channel show “Good Morning Miss Bliss”. Since the show, she has appeared in a variety of films but many were left wondering what happened to her in recent years.
After a series of bizarre pictures and video, some begin to question if the once child star was sick, suffering from some disease or even if drugs were at play. There were even on-camera interviews where she would frequently stop mid-sentence and stare off, often mumbling to herself or to others who weren’t there.
It was until she appeared on the Dr. Oz show that fans really got an idea of what she was facing: a mental health disorder.
During her February 2020 appearance on Dr. Oz, Voorhies revealed for the first time that she had been diagnosed with schizoaffective thought disorder, a mental disorder that is often misdiagnosed as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. During that visit, she also admitted she was “hurt” to be excluded from the new series.
It was that experience, she explained, that led her to be contacted about doing a cameo in the Peacock “Saved By the Bell” reboot.
She was invited back after sending a note to Dr. Mehmet Oz about her earlier appearance.
“I have you to thank for the wonderful exposure on your show that contributed to the ‘SBTB’ producers rethinking my value to the production,” she wrote. “It’s always so good to be understood and be able to come home! Yes, ‘SBTB’ is home to me.”
According to her mother, Tricia, Voorhies has made “so much progress” since last February, adding, “it’s been incredible.”
“It was a very exciting,” she said of filming her cameo on the show. “I received a call from Elizabeth Berkley, who plays Jessie. She sent me a beautiful bouquet of flowers. And we had a great time shooting it.”
Tricia admitted it felt…