Disgraced Nickelodeon star Drake Bell’s estranged wife has revealed that she has a new man in her life just five months as he was seen huffing balloons in his car.
Janet Von Schmeling took to Instagram to share a selfie with her new boyfriend as she commemorated ‘national boyfriend day’ on Tuesday just five months after filing for divorce from the 37-year-old former Nickelodeon star.
The 28-year-old’s new man was revealed to me entrepreneur Jim Perez who is founder of the Self Made Club which is a community of ‘self made’ people where they all celebrate success.
Janet – who shares a two-year-old son Wyatt Bell with the child actor – sported an LBD in the selfie along with blush colored heels as she showed off a small Louis Vuitton monogrammed bag designed by Takashi Murakami.
Jim looked handsome in a classic black suit with a crisp white dress shirt and black tie and shoes.
Moving on: Disgraced Nickelodeon star Drake Bell’s estranged wife Janet Von Schmeling has revealed that she has a new man in her life just five months as he was seen huffing balloons in his car; the former couple are spotted together in February 2017
Moving on: The 28-year-old took to Instagram to share a selfie with her new boyfriend Jim Perez as she commemorated ‘national boyfriend day’ on Tuesday just five months after filing for divorce from the 37-year-old former Nickelodeon star
Back in April Janet’s troubled ex Drake appeared to be inhaling from a balloon again as he was spotted for the first time since being reported missing.
Bell was pictured sitting in the front seat of his car in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 25 with the tip of the balloon in his mouth. He appeared to have a cannister in the vehicle with him and wore a black cap and matching T-shirt.
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.
In early April, Bell went missing in south Florida after reportedly threatening to commit suicide. He was later found unharmed.
Over that 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.’
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 (pictured in April)
‘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’.
‘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.
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.
‘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 said in court docs that she and the actor initially separated from one another in September of 2022.
In the balance: Janet and Drake share a two-year-old son Wyatt Bell
Schmeling said that the reason behind the breakup after four years of marriage is irreconcilable differences, the outlet reported.
The pair are parents to two-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 came 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.
Child star: Drake Bell poses with actors Jonathan Goldstein, Miranda Cosgrove, Josh Peck and Nancy Sullivan in the Nickelodeon show Drake & Josh
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.
