Disgraced Nickelodeon star Drake Bell appeared to be inhaling from a balloon again as he was spotted for the first time since being reported missing.
Bell, 36, was pictured sitting in the front seat of his car in Los Angeles on Tuesday with the tip of the balloon in his mouth. He wore a black cap, matching T-shirt, and had his phone in front of him.
It is unclear what, if any, substance was inside the balloons.
It comes several months after Bell was seen sucking on inflated balloons in his car outside a Los Angeles smoke shop while his son was in the backseat. The incident occurred while Bell was serving a two year probation for endangering a girl’s welfare when she was just 15.
Earlier this month, Bell went missing in south Florida after reportedly threatening to commit suicide. He was later found unharmed.
Disgraced Nickelodeon star Drake Bell appeared to be inhaling a balloon again as he was spotted for the first time since being reported missing
Over the weekend, Bell called out online trolls for affecting his mental health in a series of new tweets, in which he fiercely denied being a ‘pedophile.’
Nearly two years after pleading guilty to child endangerment charges relating to a girl who met him online and attended one of his concerts in Ohio when she was 15, the actor defended himself against false accusations.
After one Twitter user penned a message urging others not to ‘forget he’s a pedo,’ the father-of-one, replied: ‘Do a second of research. This is what I have to live with everyday. They are literally going to kill me.’
‘Blood [is] on their hands,’ he fired, alluding to the strain that unsubstantiated claims have on his wellbeing amid his divorce from estranged wife Janet Von Schmeling.
In a separate tweet, Bell said it blew his ‘mind how mean people are on here to people clearly dealing with mental health issues.’
‘It’s unreal how cruel you all can be,’ he bemoaned, before angrily responding to another post calling him a pedo.
While his fans told him not to subject himself to reading hateful posts, Bell seemed to hit a boiling point as he told one troll to ‘f**k’ off as he swore ‘to God’ he is not a ‘pedophile.’
His tweets were posted just one day before claiming on Twitter that he learned that his spouse had filed for divorce by reading about it online.
Bell, 36, was pictured sitting in the front seat of his car with the tip of the balloon in his mouth
Earlier this month, Bell went missing in south Florida after reportedly threatening to commit suicide. He was later found unharmed
He wore a black cap, matching T-shirt, and had his phone in front of him
‘I found out my wife filed for divorce from TMZ,’ Bell tweeted in the early hours of Friday. He then posted a link to a YouTube clip of his new song, Going Away.
‘I know exactly what you’re gonna do, with all the s**t you said that wasn’t true, When is everybody going to get a clue, we’re not the same,’ Bell sang in the video. It’s unclear what the inspiration was for the track.
Von Schmeling, 28, said in court docs that she and the actor initially separated from one another in September of 2022.
Schmeling said that the reason behind the breakup after four years of marriage is irreconcilable differences, the outlet reported.
He had his cell phone out as he sat in the front seat of his car
Over the weekend, Bell called out online trolls for affecting his mental health in a series of new tweets, in which he fiercely denied being a ‘pedophile’
The pair are parents to one-year-old son Wyatt Bell, who Von Schmeling is asking for primary legal and physical custody of.
Von Schmeling said that she is open to Bell receiving visitation of their son as part of a divorce agreement.
The news comes a week after the actor took to Twitter April 13 to express his shock at the widespread news that his family had reported he was missing, and officials put out an alert was put out stating that he was missing and endangered.
‘You leave your phone in the car and don’t answer for the night and this?’ Bell wrote on Twitter, with a face with an accompanying tears of joy emoji.
The Newport Beach, California-born performer was reported missing by family prior to being found by police at around 1 p.m. ET April 13 in Florida.
The Nickelodeon alum ’caused concern’ with family before he was reported missing – and then found by police hours later, a source told US Weekly.
The source said, ‘There was some communication with family members that caused concern so they are worried about him and looking for him.’
The insider said that some of his relatives were not even aware he was in Florida where his estranged wife Von Schemling lives with their toddler son.
Bell was spotted in public on Tuesday during a trip to SeaWorld in Orlando with his son.
‘I found out my wife filed for divorce from TMZ,’ Bell tweeted in the early hours of Friday. He then posted a link to a YouTube clip of his new song, Going Away
Janet Von Schmeling, 28, said in court docs that she and the actor initially separated from one another in September of 2022
Bell emerged from his car with the balloon and various items in hand
The news comes a week after the actor took to Twitter April 13 to express his shock at the widespread news that his family had reported he was missing, and officials put out an alert was put out stating that he was missing and endangered
Bell pictured out in Los Angeles in late February
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