Drake Bell Marks One Year Since Telling His Sexual Abuse Story in ‘Quiet on Set’: ‘I Didn’t Expect to Have That Kind of Impact on People’

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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Drake Bell told People magazine that a weight has been lifted, one year after the airing of ID Discovery’s “Quiet on Set.” The documentary series featured Bell going public for the first time about being sexually assaulted as a teenager by his Nickelodeon dialogue coach Brian Peck.

It was perhaps the biggest bombshell to emerge from “Quiet on Set,” which also detailed claims of misconduct behind the scenes at Nickelodeon during the 1990s and early 2000s. “It’s been a really nice weight lifted,” Bell said while marking the one-year anniversary of “Quiet on Set’s” debut. “It’s a roller coaster of emotions.

I don’t want to sugarcoat it and make the message, ‘Hey, all you got to do is just tell somebody and get your story out and when you wake up the next day, it’s going to be gone and everything’s going to be fine and you’re going to walk through life without any pain or sorrow or sadness!’ It’s always going to be there, but it’s a lot nicer getting support.” Peck worked on the Nickelodeon shows “All That” and “The Amanda Show” in the late ’90s and early 2000s, the latter of which starred Bell before he went on to headline his own series “Drake & Josh” on the network.

In 2003, Peck, 43 at the time, was arrested on 11 charges — including sodomy, lewd act upon a child 14 or 15 by a person 10 years older, and oral copulation by anesthesia or controlled substance — but the victim was not named until Bell stepped forward. “It’s really great to have experiences now where, instead of walking through the airport and having people come up and ask for a selfie, they’re coming up and sharing their stories and saying, ‘I watched your documentary and after your interview, I opened up to my husband.