'Drake & Josh' star Drake Bell shares that he was the anonymous teen whose accounts of sexual abuse led to the conviction of Nickelodeon dialogue coach Brian Peck: 'I had no way out. The abuse was extensive and it got pretty brutal.'
"I had no way out. The abuse was extensive and it got pretty brutal," the "Drake & Josh" star shares in upcoming docuseries, "Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV."is speaking publicly for the first time about the sexual abuse he survived as a teenager., the former child star details the abuse repeatedly perpetrated bywhile Bell was a cast member.
Bell’s father and manager, Joe Bell, immediately felt that something was off with Peck. “I started to see Brian just start to hang around Drake too much, and it didn’t sit well with me,” Joe explains in the docuseries, which premieres on Sunday. “Drake would be in the dressing room or something, and in would pop Brian, and just touch Drake, you know, do things that, wait a second. What are you doing? Drake can put that on himself.
The actor goes on to explain that Peck exploited the strained relationship between his two parents, who are divorced, and convinced Bell’s mother to allow teen Drake to cut business ties with his father. Once Joe relinquished his duties as manager, Peck persuaded the actor’s mother to let Bell stay at his house and drive the teen star to auditions.
The actor explains that he didn’t find a way out until he got into a relationship, and his girlfriend’s mother immediately recognized that something was amiss when Peck repeatedly called the actor at her home. She took Bell to her family therapist and encouraged him to share about his experience there.
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