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Shaun Weiss has issued a sad update on Nickelodeon star Tylor Chase after he was hospitalised following a viral video.
Concern was first sparked after a social media video of 36-year-old Chase, suggesting that he is currently homeless in Riverside, California, went viral online.
Chase is best known for his role as Martin Qwerly in the Nickelodeon TV series Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide from the 2000s, as well as for his appearances in Everybody Hates Chris and the 2007 movie Good Time Max.
Chase's father has already spoken out, claiming that his son suffers from mental health issues, while Riverside Police Department Public Information Officer Ryan Railsback told the Daily Mail they didn't know how long Chase had been 'experiencing homelessness'.
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Former co-star Daniel Curtis Lee revealed to the Mail that Chase's dad 'instructed' influencer, Jacob 'Jake' Harris, to help his son however he can.
Chase is now said to be receiving urgent medical care in a hospital in Southern California.
The Mighty Ducks star Shaun Weiss also added: "Tylor has been taken to a facility by a mental health crisis team. He is under the care of Riverside County officials.
"The public outpouring of support came at a very crucial time. He is not well. He requires care beyond the scope of standard detox facilities. He needs weeks to stabilise," the star added.
Weiss, who has spoken openly for years about his own path from addiction to sobriety, took to Instagram on Monday (29 December) explaining that 'we're having a really hard time' getting Chase the support he needs.
He stressed that 'Tylor has to want to go to treatment,' adding that: "All the resources are available to him, and it's very frustrating because there is no system in place to help people like this, and our only option now is to what? Watch him wither away on the street?"
Weiss, who once struggled with homelessness and addiction himself before celebrating two years sober in 2022, became involved after a video surfaced earlier this month (20 December) showing Chase living on the streets in Riverside, California.
Weiss said Jacob Harris, owner of Riverside's Shipwreck Barbershop and someone who has been documenting efforts to help Chase, contacted a mental health crisis team.
They evaluated Chase and 'agreed that he needed help,' but they ultimately 'did not keep him' and 'they released him in the middle of the night'.
Harris later told followers that Chase was in a '36-hour medical hold,' during which they were able to get him 'clean, detoxed, physically clean'.
Working with Chase’s family, Harris had arranged for a professional rehabilitation coach from Boston to be ready to support him in staying off the streets, but 'he was not, at the time, willing to accept help from the rehabilitation coach, although he was very receptive toward the information'.
