Drake Bell, a yr after speaking concerning the abuse he suffered throughout his Nickelodeon days, discovered the “remedy” in a gathering awaited for a while.
“Drake & Josh”, Bell and Josh Peck, gathered on Peck and Ben Suffer “Good Guys” podcast Remembering their friendship lengthy years, revisiting their profitable sitcom and re -evaluating the way in which wherein the bell of the abuse skilled by a former Nickelodeon dialogue coach has had an affect on each. Bell began his stroll in reminiscence with a declaration of non -responsibility.
“I do not know if that is simply because we’ve made many dangerous selections in our life or if it is just from the trauma, however I’ve many issues to recollect many issues,” he mentioned.
The dialog of 1 hour among the many former 38-year-old co-protagonists, who for the primary time shared the display on Nickelodeon’s “Amanda Show” earlier than testing “Drake & Josh” Apocalypse Bell shared last year in the documentary “Quiet on set”. In the four -part ID documentary, Bell became a public on the sexual abuse that he had to face from the former dialogue coach Nickelodeon Brian Peck (no relationship with Josh Peck). Brian Peck was sentenced for sexual abuse on minors in 2004, but at the moment the name of his victim was not disclosed. Bell confirmed in “tranquility on the set” that he is the unidentified victim who refers in the case.
In Monday’s podcast, Peck told his former co-protagonist that during the first days of “Drake & Josh” he was not aware of Bell’s experience and that “this separation began among us” accordingly. Bell explained that the investigations on Brian Peck and “All the things you saw in the documentary” coincided with the filming of the pilot “Drake & Josh”. This made the filming and the return to a set of Nickelodeon complicated, said Bell.
Being on the set was the place where he felt “happier and more comfortable”, but “the worst part was every day I arrived there, the monster was there,” he said. Bell said despite his wishes to focus on the construction of his comic collaboration with Peck, “I returned to the same stage, the same parking, the same changing rooms, the same green room, the same make -up rooms”.
Peck replied: “Everything is triggering”.
Bell recalled how the investigations on Brian Peck’s abuse looked down on production. He said that people on the set presumably allowed the behavior of his abusator and “do nothing”. Bell also recalled “losing hair” due to the stress of the investigation.
“I had these giant crusts in the head,” he said, “they were like golf -size crusts.”
Peck said he wasn’t aware of Bell suffered sexual abuse until “silent on the set”, but he remembered “feeling something happened”. He remembered that he asked Bell during their days of “Drake & Josh” if he was still in contact with Brian Peck.
“You just looked at me how, ‘No. Brian is really bad” and I remember thinking, “Gatcha”, said Peck.
Later in the podcast, Bell recalled the Brian Peck process and that the courtroom “was full of people I thought were my friends”. He said that at that moment he had also asked himself if he was guilty.
“Drake & Josh” marks a complicated moment for time for Bell, but does not want to discourage fans from enjoying the series, which aired on Nickelodeon from 2004 to 2007. “It was there that I was really at ease, happy and enthusiastic,” he said, “and I am very proud of what we have done.”
Bell and Peck will continue their conversation in another episode.
“I contacted Drake privately, but I wanted to give my support to the survivors who were brave enough to share their stories of emotional and physical abuses on sets of Nickelodeon with this world”, Peck He said in March 2024 after the DOC aired.
“Children should be protected,” added Peck at the moment. “Reviving it publicly is incredibly difficult, but I hope it can bring healing for the victims and their families, as well as the necessary changes in our sector.”
After appearing on “Quiet on set”, which focused mainly on the controversial reign of Nickelodeon of the manufacturer Dan Schneider, Bell said last year who wanted to tell his story.
“I could have allowed this to destroy me or make me stronger for him,” Bell said about his son with his ex -wife Janet von Schmeling.
