Drake Bell alleges he was sexually abused by Nickelodeon dialogue coach

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Former Nickelodeon star Drake Bell is talking out for the primary time concerning the alleged sexual abuse he says he suffered on the age of 15.

In the forthcoming Investigation Discovery sequence Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, Peck alleges that he was a sufferer of abuse by the hands of actor Brian Peck.

Peck labored as a dialogue coach on Nickelodeon’s All That and The Amanda Show. Bell starred within the latter present from 1999 to 2002 earlier than occurring to take the lead function in his personal Nickelodeon sequence in 2004, Drake & Josh.

In August 2003, Peck was arrested on greater than a dozen costs associated to sexual abuse allegations involving an unnamed minor.

In May 2004, Peck pleaded no contest to performing a lewd act with a 14 or 15-year-old and to oral copulation with a minor below 16. Peck was sentenced to 16 months in jail and ordered to register as a intercourse offender in October 2004.

A trailer teasing Bell’s look in Quiet on Set has been launched on-line, whereas a press launch from Investigation Discovery states: “The clip reveals that former Nickelodeon star Drake Bell will be sharing publicly, for the first time, the story of the abuse he suffered at the hands of Brian Peck, his former dialogue coach who was convicted in 2004 for his crimes against Drake and ordered to register as a sex offender.”

Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV is a four-part docuseries investigating the poisonous work circumstances at kids’s reveals within the Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s. It airs on 17 and 18 March.

Last 12 months, Bell introduced that he came upon that his spouse, Janet Von Schmeling, had filed for divorce by studying about it on-line.

The information of Bell’s divorce got here one week after the Florida Police briefly reported that he was lacking. On 13 April 2023, the Daytona Beach Police Department posted an alert on their Facebook wherein they mentioned Bell was “considered missing and endangered”.

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Hours after the publish was shared, the police confirmed they had been involved with Bell and that he was secure.

Bell had at that time just lately accomplished a two-year probation sentence, after he pled responsible to baby endangerment in June 2021. Allegations in opposition to Bell had been made by a then-19-year-old lady, who first reported the actor to police in 2018 and accused him of grooming her since she was 12.

Bell’s legal professionals disputed claims of images being exchanged and sexual abuse, claiming that there was no proof. When delivering Bell’s sentence, Ohio choose Timothy McCormick mentioned that his “celebrity status let [him] nurture this relationship” with somebody who was a toddler.

After accepting the plea and saying that his “conduct was wrong”, Bell apologised to the lady. “I’m sorry that the victim was harmed in any way, but that was obviously not my intention,” he mentioned. “I have taken this matter very, very seriously. And again, I just want to apologise to her and anyone else who may have been affected by my actions.”