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.
24.03.2024 - 01:43 / perezhilton.com
Drake Bell got real about why he shared his sexual assault story for the first time.
In a new interview on The Sarah Fraser Show podcast, the 37-year-old actor opened up about why he decided to participate in the documentary Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV to talk about the sexual abuse he experienced. Understandably, Drake had been “cautious” about doing the doc. Not only because he would be discussing some painful trauma, but he had been approached about doing another documentary in the past. When he declined the offer, the response, as Drake put it, was “unbelievable.” He recalled:
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What the f**k?! He later began to receive inquiries about Quiet on Set. At first, the singer was reluctant to respond and participate. However, one of the directors, Emma Schwartz, changed his mind. Drake said she was “very sensitive” and he “could tell she was coming from a genuine place” in their interactions over email.
They eventually met in person in Los Angeles. During their meeting, Drake remembered feeling “really comfortable.” But The Amanda Show alum also had been “going through so much in my personal life” that he knew he needed to get help before he could even consider continuing with the project. Shorting after meeting with Emma, Drake said he checked into rehab to process the trauma he went through:
Once Drake left rehab, he became more open to the idea of telling his story for the first time. He continued:
As we know, Drake did bravely share that he was sexually assaulted, revealing he was the previously unidentified victim of Nickelodeon dialogue coach and convicted child molester Brian Peck. The Drake & Josh alum was not the
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.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Steve Burns, who became an icon of children’s television as the host of Nickelodeon‘s “Blue’s Clues” from 1996 to 2002, recently spoke to “Today” and said he watched the viral documentary series “Quiet on Set” in “horror and heartbreak.” The ID Discovery series explores the alleged harassment and abuse that took place at Nickelodeon before and after the turn of the century, which is the same time Burns was the face of “Blue’s Clues.” “I don’t have any particular insight into any of that,” Burns said about the allegations made in the documentary series. “I’m coming to it much the same as anyone else, with horror and heartbreak. It’s just terrible to watch it unfold.
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Emily Longeretta Drake Bell is continuing to tell his story in the latest episode of ID’s “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV” documentary. Titled “Breaking the Silence,” the fifth episode, which aired on Sunday, April 7, began with Bell speaking to host Soledad O’Brien about what has happened since he came forward for the first time about being sexually assaulted by Brian 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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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.