If there was an upside to doing Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, Drake Bell said it would be the strangers who have approached him with gratitude before sharing their own sad tales of abuse.
03.04.2024 - 23:01 / perezhilton.com
Drake Bell is opening up about his child endangerment case — and claiming he didn’t do as much wrong as people think.
In Tuesday’s Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast, the Drake & Josh alum got candid about his 2021 court case, during which he was accused of sending inappropriate texts to a 15-year-old girl back in 2017. In the end, he ended up pleading guilty to a felony charge of attempted child endangerment and a misdemeanor charge of disseminating matter harmful to a juvenile.
In her reaction to the sentencing, the victim called the actor “the epitome of evil.” She even brought up new allegations, claiming he began grooming her when she was just 12 before allegedly sexually abusing her three years later. So really icky stuff. And tough to revisit after learning what was done to him as a child star on Nickelodeon. But now Drake wants to set the record straight.
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While owning up to his mistakes, the former child star claimed he only ever sent texts and nothing more, explaining:
And yet, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years on probation and community service. So how and why did that happen? The Amanda Show alum went on to admit he WAS in the wrong — things just didn’t go as far as the victim alleged, according to him. He explained:
Hmmm. Well, at least he knows he messed up. The charges as they ended up certainly support his version of events. After all the investigation, he pleaded to child endangerment and NOT anything more vile. Obviously, sometimes suspects are allowed to plead guilty to lesser charges to ensure a conviction. Hmm.
Obviously we want to believe the Found a Way crooner, who
If there was an upside to doing Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, Drake Bell said it would be the strangers who have approached him with gratitude before sharing their own sad tales of abuse.
of sexual abuse, revealed during his 2003 trial that Strong, 44, and nearly 40 others had written character statements to the judge. “I just had the most amazing conversation with @RiderStrong we are all healing together.
Emily Longeretta Drake Bell is healing alongside Rider Strong. Strong, who became close friends with dialogue coach Brian Peck after meeting on “Boy Meets World,” was one of the many actors who wrote a letter in defense of Peck’s character when Bell accused him of sexual assault in 2003. At the time, the victim of the assault was listed as John Doe, but Bell came forward revealing it was him in Investigation Discovery’s “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV.” (At the time, Peck pleaded no contest to two charges of child sexual abuse, was sentenced to 16 months in prison and had to register as a sex offender.) Now, more than 20 years later, Bell and Strong have connected.
Drake Bell has no hard feelings for Josh Peck.
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Drake Bell has slammed Nickelodeon’s responses to the “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV” documentary, calling the network’s apology “pretty empty.” “There’s a very well-tailored response saying, ‘Learning about his trauma,’ because they couldn’t say that they didn’t know about this or what had happened, or anything,” Bell, 37, said during an appearance on the “The Sarah Fraser Show” podcast. “So I think that was a really well-tailored response by probably some big attorney in Hollywood.”“I find it pretty empty, their responses, because, I mean, they still show our shows, they still put our shows on,” the “Drake and Josh” alum fumed.
Quiet On Set “pretty empty”.In the third episode of the four-part series that aired on Discovery, Bell opened up about being sexually abused by dialogue coach Brian Peck aged 15. He was reportedly abused by Peck whilst working on Nickelodeon’s The Amanda Show from 1999 to 2002.
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