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.
21.03.2024 - 21:33 / perezhilton.com
Well this is f**king disturbing as can be…
We’ve been covering the sad story of Investigation Discovery‘s new four-part docuseries Quiet On Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV for a few weeks now. Most notably, of course, was the revelation that Drake Bell was the 15-year-old previously-unnamed child star who was abused by acting-slash-dialogue coach Brian Peck nearly two decades ago. The fallout from that reveal and the docuseries’ coverage has been all over the headlines for a while. But this one tidbit got left out of much of the coverage thus far — and honestly, it is one of the most disturbing parts of the whole thing!!
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During episode two, which aired back on Monday night, former All That cast member Kyle Sullivan recalled working with Peck way back when. Sullivan was just 14 at the time. He remembered how everybody around the set and all the kids’ parents were totally cool with Brian:
Sadly, that’s how these things so often go — a person in a position of trust taking advantage of that trust in the worst way. But that wasn’t Sullivan’s only revelation during the docuseries. In fact, what he said next was WAY more disturbing. The ex-child star remembered going to a barbecue at Peck’s house one day. There, when he walked into one room of the disgraced dialogue coach’s crib, he saw something unsettling:
Huh… that is a little weird. The identity of the clown is what made it really, really scary, though. Sullivan explained:
***Record Scratch***
Um, WHAT?! John Wayne Gacy?? As in, the so-called “Killer Clown” John Wayne Gacy?! As in, the serial killer John Wayne Gacy?! As in, the guy who was
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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.
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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