Former child star and comedian Shaun Weiss wants to help actor Tylor Chase in his mental health battle.
This week, a TikTok showing the former Nickelodeon entertainer, who starred in kids' sitcom Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, went viral, showing him looking disheveled while outside an establishment. The clip ended with a GoFundMe page describing Chase as a "resilient soul" who needed help with "safe housing, food, basic necessities and resources he needs to get back on his feet."
The 36-year-old starred in Ned's Declassified as recurring character Martin Qwerly for all three seasons. His last credit was in 2011 video game L.A. Noire.
Weiss, who starred in The Mighty Ducks franchise in the 1990s before seeing a decline in the late 2000s, shared in a new Instagram reel explaining that he wants to reach out to Chase.
"I have received many messages about Tylor Chase," Weiss began. "I reached out to some friends of mine and we have a bed for him at a detox and we have a place for him to go and get long-term treatment thanks to my buddy Mike Jordan at 1111 Recovery."
"All we need to do now is find him," the actor continued. "I'm not in Los Angeles or I would go look for him myself."
Weiss added that he's heard that Chase could be in the La Sierra neighborhood of Riverside and asked if someone could get a "face-to-face" with the actor.
"Please DM me so we can get him some help in time for the holiday," Weiss concluded.
Weiss, who previously battled addiction, homelessness and a string of arrests, has been sober for nearly six years. As People shares, the actor was on an episode of Pod Meets World, where recounted his mugshot going public, which helped speed up his recovery process.
"Because first of all, it made me have to surrender earlier than I might have. Because when you have, you know, stories about you on the news and the narrative really isn't correct, there was nothing I could do about it from a jail cell," he said on the show. "So I had to decide to surrender early on which ended up being a major benefit in the 12-step program."