Former Nickelodeon star Drake Bell is coming ahead to allege he was a sufferer of Brian Peck’s sexual abuse.
In a new clip from the upcoming Investigation Discovery collection Quiet on Set: The Darkish Aspect of Children TV launched on Tuesday, March 5, Bell is seen sitting down for a solo interview the place he’s anticipated to debate his expertise working with Peck.
“The clip reveals that former Nickelodeon star Drake Bell might be sharing publicly, for the primary time, the story of the abuse he suffered by the hands of Brian Peck,” Investigation Discovery introduced through Instagram, “his former dialogue coach who was convicted in 2004 for his crimes towards Drake and ordered to register as a intercourse offender.”
Peck labored as a dialogue coach on Nickelodeon’s All That and The Amanda Present. Bell starred within the latter program from 1999 to 2002 earlier than serving to launch a brand new collection referred to as Drake & Josh in 2004.
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Again in August 2003, Peck was arrested on greater than a dozen expenses associated to sexual abuse allegations involving an unnamed minor, Selection reported.
In Could 2004, Peck pleaded no contest to performing a lewd act with a 14- or 15-year-old and to oral copulation with a minor beneath 16. It stays unclear who these victims are and Bell has not but publicly specified the character of the abuse he skilled.
Per Selection, Peck was sentenced to 16 months in jail and ordered to register as a intercourse offender in October 2004.
Drake Bell. OGUT/Star Max/GC Pictures
Us Weekly has reached out to Peck and Bell’s reps for touch upon the upcoming Investigation Discovery collection.
Quiet on Set: The Darkish Aspect of Children TV is described by Investigation Discovery as a four-part docuseries that uncovers the poisonous and harmful tradition behind a few of the most iconic kids’s exhibits of the late Nineties and early 2000s.
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Investigation Discovery says the collection options “unprecedented entry” to key solid members, writers and crew from quite a lot of previous Nickelodeon exhibits – together with iCarly, Sam & Cat and Victorious – who’re able to share their experiences.
Simply final month, former Boy Meets World stars Rider Sturdy and Will Friedle addressed their sophisticated reference to Peck, who appeared on two episodes of their hit present.
In 2003, each Sturdy and Friedle confirmed their assist for Peck after he was arrested by writing letters to a choose and attending a court docket listening to. Trying again, the actors mentioned they didn’t know the total story. (It stays unclear who Peck’s victims had been on the time of his 2003 arrest.)
“We’re sitting in that courtroom on the flawed facet of every thing,” Friedle recalled on the February 19 episode of their “Pod Meets World” podcast. “The sufferer’s mom turned and mentioned, ‘Take a look at all of the well-known individuals you introduced with you. And it doesn’t change what you probably did to my child.’ I simply sat there desirous to die. It was like, ‘What the hell am I doing right here?’ It was horrifying all the best way round.”
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Friedle admitted he nonetheless struggles together with his choice to face by Peck, including, “We weren’t advised the entire story, however it doesn’t change the truth that we did it. I nonetheless can’t get the phrases out to explain all the issues that I’m feeling inside myself.”
Friedle hasn’t seen Peck in almost 20 years. Sturdy, nevertheless, bumped into the actor at a celebration seven years in the past. “Right here I used to be at this social gathering and I needed to depart,” he mentioned when recalling the surprising reunion. “I used to be so freaked the f—okay out.”
Quiet on Set: The Darkish Aspect of Children TV is about to air on Investigation Discovery Sunday, March 17, and Monday, March 18, at 9 p.m. ET.
Should you or somebody you recognize has been sexually assaulted, contact the Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).
