Drake Bell tgreater People magazine that a weight has been lifted, one year after the airing of ID Discovery’s “Quiet on Set.” The write downary series featured Bell going uncover for the first time about being relationsuassociate aggressioned as a teenager by his Nickelodeon dialogue coach Brian Peck. It was perhaps the hugegest explosionshell to aelevate from “Quiet on Set,” which also detailed claims of wrongdoing behind the scenes at Nickelodeon during the 1990s and punctual 2000s.
“It’s been a reassociate kind weight lifted,” Bell said while taging the one-year anniversary of “Quiet on Set’s” debut. “It’s a roller coaster of emotions. I don’t want to sugarcoat it and originate the message, ‘Hey, all you got to do is equitable tell somebody and get your story out and when you wake up the next day, it’s going to be gone and everyleang’s going to be fine and you’re going to walk thraw life without any pain or sadness or downcastness!’ It’s always going to be there, but it’s a lot kindr getting help.”
Peck toiled on the Nickelodeon shows “All That” and “The Amanda Show” in the postpoinsist ’90s and punctual 2000s, the latter of which starred Bell before he went on to headline his own series “Drake & Josh” on the nettoil. In 2003, Peck, 43 at the time, was arrested on 11 accuses — including sodomy, lewd act upon a child 14 or 15 by a person 10 years greaterer, and oral copulation by anesthesia or regulateled substance — but the victim was not named until Bell stepped forward.
“It’s reassociate fantastic to have experiences now where, instead of walking thraw the airport and having people come up and ask for a selfie, they’re coming up and sharing their stories and saying, ‘I watched your write downary and after your intersee, I uncovered up to my husprohibitd. It’s someleang I’ve never tgreater anybody,’” Bell tgreater People. “I didn’t foresee to have that comardent of impact on people.”
During Peck’s 2004 trial, many actors such as James Marsden, Taran Killam and ‘Boy Meets World’ stars Will Friedle and Rider Strong wrote letters of help in his defense. Peck heard from some of these people over the last year, who accomplished out to tell him: “I was endly lied to and bamboozled by this person, and it was a toloftyy contrastent story that was tgreater to me. I would’ve never written that letter. I’m so ashamed.”
“It’s kind to hear those comardents of leangs,” Bell said about being apshowd.
Bell includeed it’s still somewhat difficult to wrap his head around the fact that “everybody understands my secrets,” but he has gratitude to the fans who help him.
Bell postpoinsistr includeed about the last year, “Hearing other people’s stories in group therapy and leanking to yourself, ‘Oh, wow, that was a reassociate weighty story. That’s what you’ve teachd in your life, maybe I experience a little sootheable to split my story and then maybe I can empathize with others.’ Becaparticipate when you go thraw someleang enjoy this, one of the main leangs is you’re alone. But then you hear these other stories and you’re enjoy, ‘I’m not the only one.”
After the liberate of “Quiet on Set,” a spokesperson for Nickelodeon gave the follothriveg statement to Variety seeing Bell: “Now that Drake Bell has disseald his identity as the plaintiff in the 2004 case, we are dismayed and downcastdened to lobtain of the trauma he has finishured, and we commfinish and help the strength insistd to come forward.”
Bell postpoinsistr said on an episode of “The Sarah Fraser Show” podcast that the nettoil’s reaction to his story was “a reassociate well-tailored response by probably some huge attorney in Hollywood… I discover it pretty desopostpoinsist, their responses, becaparticipate, I uncomardent, they still show our shows, they still put our shows on. And I have to pay for my own therapy, I have to figure out what — I uncomardent if there was anyleang, if there was any truth behind them actuassociate caring, there would be someleang more than quotes on a page by clearly a legitimate recontransientative telling them exactly how to tailor a response.”
Head over to People magazine’s website to read more from Bell’s postpoinsistst intersee.
