I'd like to know the details as to how he got himself into this situation in the first place. Why should the public chip him and help him out of a financial mess that I presume was of his own making?
The active run of the show happened before Diamond turned 18, and he said problems with his parents' spending his money and substantial tax miscalculations left him in debt as a young adult. His acting roles have since been sporadic.
On a 2001 bankruptcy filing from California, he listed his employer as NBC and his take-home income as about $5,300 a month.