Drake Bell Reflects On ‘Quiet On Set’ & Revelations Of Abuse A Year After Docuseries’ Release: “A Roller Coaster Of Emotions”

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In a sit-down a year after the release of Investigation Discovery’s Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, Drake Bell — whose revelations of experiencing sexual abuse at the hands of his former Nickelodeon dialogue coach/manager Brian Peck triggered massive shockwaves throughout the industry — said he has experienced a “roller coaster of emotions” amid the support he’s received. “It’s been a really nice weight lifted,” he told People. “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.” Bell, best known for his roles in The Amanda Show and as one-half of the starring duo in Drake & Josh, added that it was “nice” to receive apologies from Hollywood colleagues who had previously written letters of support for Peck amid his sentencing for his crimes, for which he received 16 months in prison and was required to register as a sex offender.

Among those who had penned letters were James Marsden, Taran Killam and Boy Meets World actors Will Friedle and Rider Strong, with whom Peck previously worked.

Bell recalled the messages he received as being along the lines of: “‘I was completely lied to and bamboozled by this person, and it was a totally different story that was told to me.