Josh Peck Speaks Out on Nickelodeon Abuse Allegations, Confirms Private Talk With Drake Bell: ‘Children Should Be Protected’

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.

Drake Bell opened up more in the fifth episode of Quiet On Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV.

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.

Drake Bell revealed on Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV that Brian Peck, a former Nickelodeon dialogue coach, abused him.

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.

Investigation Discovery has greenlit a new, fifth episode of docuseries Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV that will delve deeper in into the toxic and dangerous culture behind some of the most iconic kids’ television shows of the late 1990s and early 2000s, including allegations of abuse, sexism and racism. 

Drake Bell doesn’t think Nickelodeon‘s response to Quiet on Set was up to par.

Emily Longeretta Directors Beth and Rich Correll, whose letters defending Brian Peck in his court case against Drake Bell were made public in the recent “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV” documentary, are apologizing. “We extend our deepest apologies to Drake Bell and his family, and we deeply regret our decision many years ago to request leniency for someone who we later learned had committed a horrible crime and caused so much pain and trauma to Drake and others. If we had known the truth at the time the letters were written, we never would have written them,” the Corrells said in an exclusive statement to Variety.

Drake Bell is in the middle of the spotlight after the release of the bombshell documentary Quiet On Set. The Nickelodeon star detailed years of abuse at the hands of Brian Peck, opening the floodgates for conversations about the treatment of children in entertainment. The actor has been on a personal rollercoaster for years, finding himself in his own legal battles, getting probation in July 2021 for child endangerment.

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.

Drake Bell revealed on the ID docu-series Quiet On Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV that he was sexually assaulted by former Nickelodeon dialogue coach Brian Peck.

Well, this is a horrifying extra bit of news following everything we’ve learned about Nickelodeon this week.

Josh Peck is sharing his support for Drake Bell and all child stars who have opened up about experiencing abuse on set.

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Josh Peck, of the Nickelodeon hit Drake & Josh, has issued a statement of support of his old co-star Drake Bell, who recently revealed that he’d been sexually abused by a show dialogue coach when he was just 15.

The woman who played Drake Bell‘s mom on the Nick show Drake & Josh is expressing sadness over his abuse claims at the hand of former dialogue coach Brian Peck.

Drake Bell has no hard feelings for Josh Peck!

Quiet On Set, Bell claimed that he was sexually abused by dialogue coach Brian Peck at the age of 15.Coincidentally, the alleged abuser shares the same surname as Bell’s on-screen brother in the popular teen sitcom, Drake & Josh, which ran from 2004 to 2007, however Brian and Josh are not related to each other.The confusion and the sensitivity of the topic has caused some fans to send abusive and hateful messages to Josh Peck online, which Bell has now addressed.The former child actor made a TikTok video in which he said: “I just want to clear something up. I’ve noticed a lot of comments on on some of Josh’s TikToks and some of his posts.