A FORMER Nickelodeon child star has laid bare his life on the streets, revealing a staggering list of drugs he says he is taking even as his mother urges fans not to help him financially.
Tylor Chase, 36, once a fresh-faced teen actor on Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide, is now roaming the streets of Riverside, California, picking up cigarette butts and discarded Christmas cards.
When reporters found Chase behind a 7-Eleven on Monday, he was digging in the dirt, dressed in a torn jacket, a scruffy LA Raiders polo and pants patched with characters from Rugrats.
His hands were cut and blistered, dirt packed under his fingernails.
Offered food, Chase instead asked for marijuana.
“I could use maybe a joint or a bong. Do you guys smoke weed?” he told the Daily Mail.
He also revealed the list of drugs he says he is taking while living on the streets.
“I like to vape,” Chase said, adding that he takes “Prozac, Adderall, Sudafed, Wellbutrin or also Zoloft,” which he claimed were prescribed by a psychiatrist, though he denied having any diagnosed mental health conditions.
Chase rose to fame at 15 playing brainy Martin Qwerly on the Nickelodeon hit from 2004 to 2007.
After the show wrapped, his acting career fizzled and his life slowly unraveled.
In 2014, he posted bleak poetry online hinting at his mental state.
In one poem titled Bipolar, he wrote: “I’m a leaf in a running gutter with the inevitable fate of ending up in a drain… Perhaps I am doomed. Perhaps I have done nothing. Perhaps I am nothing.”
The former actor eventually moved to Riverside “about seven to nine years” ago, where his mother lives.
He tried to pursue art, self-publishing two fantasy novels in 2020 and continuing to post poetry online until 2021.
But Chase also began spending more time on the streets and racked up a long rap sheet.
Riverside County court records show 12 criminal cases since August 2023, including eight this year.
His most recent arrests involve alleged shoplifting and being under the influence of a controlled substance. Both cases are ongoing.
Riverside Police say Chase is not wanted for any crimes.
Police spokesman Ryan Railsback told the Mail that during all interactions with cops, Chase “has been cordial and cooperative”.
He added that officers offer him shelter, treatment and mental health services weekly, all of which he has declined.
Despite his appearance, Chase insisted he is not homeless.
“I stay around here locally. My mom is here,” he said.
“I have a lot of good people helping me.
“It’s not too shabby. A lot of people help out. It goes a long way.”
Chase said he may move back to Georgia to live with his father and enter a housing assistance programme.
“I’m not really active homeless at this time,” he said.
“I’m thinking that I would like to go see my dad… Probably a housing assistance program in Georgia most likely.”
After videos of Chase looking unrecognisable went viral, a GoFundMe raised more than $1,200.
But his mother, Paula Moisio, demanded it be taken down.
“Tylor needs medical attention not money. But he refuses it,” she wrote in messages shared online.
“Money would not be a benefit to him. He can’t manage money for his meds by himself.”