Former Nickelodeon star Tylor Chase strung out, homeless and living in the streets of Riverside, LA. Former child star from Arizona played Martin Qwerly on Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide before falling off the rails as the former actor’s mom shutting down a GoFundme for the former star.
What went wrong…? A former Nickelodeon child star has been found homeless on the streets of Los Angeles in newly released video which has since gone viral on social media.
Tylor Chase, 36, who played Martin Qwerly on Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide (yes the irony….) from 2004-07 was filmed looking unwashed, unkempt and seemingly delirious in Riverside, California this September.
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Former Nickelodeon child star Tylor Chase seen living on the streets in heartbreaking viral video.
Tylor Chase, who played Martin Qwerly on ‘Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide’, has been found living on the streets of Los Angeles in a viral video viewed millions of times… pic.twitter.com/DBSWPFTE5x
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Hollywood child star ends up on the streets
The woman who filmed the former Hollywood actor started by asking the former Disney star if he was on the Disney Channel. ‘Nickelodeon,’ Chase clarified, adding that he was on ‘Ned’s Declassified’.
‘Oh yeah, you’re that kid on it,’ the fan responded, as Chase told her his full name.
The video of Chase sparked widespread concern on social media.
‘This actually breaks my heart,’ one fan tweeted in response to the troubling clip.
‘This made me so sad,’ someone else said.
Posted another, ‘The Hollywood industry is sick.’
The video also led to Chase’s former co-stars expressing shock and sadness.
Former Nickelodeon child actor co-stars respond
Devon Werkheiser, Daniel Curtis Lee, and Lindsey Shaw, addressed the news on Ned’s Declassified Podcast Survival Guide on September 24.
‘There was some bad news that I received earlier this week about our dear friend Tylor Chase. It was a lot to process for me,’ Lee said, describing the video as ‘scary’.
‘When I first saw, I was angry, because I was like, why put a camera on someone’s face in hard times?
‘But then I was upset with myself because I feel powerless because there’s not much that I felt I could do.’
‘I didn’t want to believe it at first, I was like, oh they just caught him at a bad time,’ Lee added.
‘But then I saw some other videos, and it looks like a brother is going through some stuff.
‘I fully believe that he can recover, but that’s also wishful thinking from me.
‘I gotta go and see him, and want to get through this fight, and try to connect with him somehow, but I also don’t want to waste my time and put him on the spot.’
‘It’s a lot to see… and even begin to have an idea of what to do about it,’ Werkheiser added.
‘It is painful and shocking to see where he is currently at… it’s hard to see someone you know and love from a really special time, and a really sweet person, that this is where life has currently ended up, is hard, man,’ Werkheiser further added.
Former child star’s mother shuts down GoFundme
After the video of Chase went viral in September, a GoFundMe was reportedly launched to help the former actor. The page reportedly raised over $1,200 before it was shut down by Chase’s mother.
‘Tylor needs medical attention not money. But he refuses it,’ his mom reportedly said. ‘I appreciate your effort. But money would not be a benefit to him. I have gotten him several phones, but he loses them within a day or two. He can’t manage money for his meds by himself.
Arizona-born Chase started his acting career as a teenager in the early 2000s.
He is best known for playing Qwerly, but also starred in Everybody Hates Chris in 2005 and as Young Adam in the 2008 James Franco flick Good Time Max.
Not immediately clear is what happened to the windfall income the child actor would have been paid and whether he was in the throes of drug addiction, struggling with alcohol related issues and whether he was addressing mental health challenges.
Or whether the former child star had been offered a safe spot to begin the healing process.
