How A Former Disney Star Killed A Woman

He drove drunk and killed a woman, but still ended up on the big screen.

Carter Covington
3 min readOct 27, 2020
Photo courtesy of Phil Lewis and the Disney Channel

Millions of children and teens in the 2000s grew up watching the largely popular Disney Channel. They ran home each and every day from their long day of learning to watch their beloved shows before having dinner with their family. Children around the globe were obsessed with the channel and the shows that it aired.

At the channel’s peak, it was bringing in over 45 million viewers each and every week. Shows like The Suite Life of Zack and Cody and Jessie grasped the attention of children all over the world.

Children and teens, alike, looked up to the stars and characters that were portrayed on the shows that they watched.

One of these characters was Mr. Moseby from The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. The character that was adored for his humor and wit, he was played by actor, Phill Lewis.

Although Lewis was seemingly perfect from the exterior, a dark event in his past still lingered.

The day is December 28th, 1991. People from all over the world were still in the Christmas-time spirit. One of these people was Phill Lewis.

Lewis had been out that night at a bar with some of his friends from college. Before he…

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