Drake Bell and Rider Strong are speaking.
20.03.2024 - 00:29 / perezhilton.com
Drake Bell slammed three stars of Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide this week — apparently for making jokes about the worst thing that happened to him.
The 37-year-old actor opened up for the first time about the “extensive” and “brutal” sexual abuse he suffered as a child star. He came forward in the documentary Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, revealing he was the previously unnamed victim of former Nickelodeon dialogue coach and convicted child molester Brian Peck. The doc also covered producer Dan Schneider allegedly having inappropriate relationships with and “sexualizing” other child stars of the network.
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While many have voiced their support for Drake bravely coming forward with his story, others have decided to make light of the allegations — specifically, Ned’s Declassified alums Devon Werkheiser, Lindsey Shaw, and Daniel Curtis Lee. The trio hopped on TikTok Live on Monday, where they could be seen laughing and joking about the sexual assault allegations made in the doc. Devon tells Daniel:
Devon does appear to regret his words immediately. He then goes on to recognize that none of them should be making fun of this situation, saying:
When a fan asks if they “were in on it,” the 33-year-old actor laughs again and tells everyone he’s “not talking about this anymore.” Though he does add:
Jeez. Of course, many people have since slammed Devon, Lindsey, and Daniel, as they felt the comments were not only nasty but dismissive of the abuse their peers on Nickelodeon experienced. Even Drake responded to the situation on X (Twitter). And he understandably was upset about the comments. He tweeted on Tuesday:
Oof…
Devon got the
Drake Bell and Rider Strong are speaking.
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.
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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 opened up in his first interview after participating in the Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV docuseries.
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.
Devon Werkheiser, Lindsey Shaw and Daniel Curtis Lee, the former stars of Ned’s Declassified School Survivor Guide, have apologized for making a sexual joke when asked about the Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV docuseries during a TikTok live.
Jack Dunn Devon Werkheiser, Lindsey Shaw and Daniel Curtis Lee, the stars of mid-aughts sitcom “Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide,” have apologized for joking about the new documentary “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV,” which features allegations by former child stars detailing widespread abuse at Nickelodeon, in particular involving producer Dan Schneider. “Earlier this week we were on TikTok Live being asked to comment on the ‘Quiet on Set’ documentary which we hadn’t seen, and a super shit joke came out that was referenced at Daniel and looked like I was talking about Drake and it all overlaps. We fucked up, I get it,” Werkheiser said, speaking on a new episode of the trio’s podcast “Ned’s Declassified Podcast Survival Guide.
The stars of Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide are full of regret about the inappropriate comments they made about one of the darkest times in Drake Bell’s life. Earlier this week, Devon Werkheiser
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