Former Nickelodeon star Drake Bell has revealed that, as a baby, he was sexually assaulted by his former dialogue coach, Brian Peck.
Bell disclosed his story of abuse for the primary time within the new docuseries, Quiet on Set: The Darkish Facet of Youngsters TV.
In 2004, Peck was convicted of committing a lewd act in opposition to a baby and oral copulation of an individual beneath 16, and was sentenced to 16 months in jail. As a result of privateness legal guidelines, the id of Peck’s sufferer had not been made public — till now.
In response to a press launch for Quiet on Set, Bell “will likely be sharing publicly, for the primary time, the story of the abuse he suffered by the hands of Brian Peck, his former dialogue coach who was convicted in 2004 for his crimes in opposition to Drake and ordered to register as a intercourse offender.” A teaser trailer that includes Bell has been launched forward of the docuseries’ premiere, which you’ll see under.
The four-part Quiet on Set: The Darkish Facet of Youngsters TV is about to premiere throughout two nights, March seventeenth and 18th, on Investigation Discovery. It guarantees to uncover “the poisonous and harmful tradition behind among the most iconic youngsters’s reveals of the late Nineties and early 2000s.”
Bell starred in Nickelodeon sequence The Amanda Present and Drake & Josh. In 2021, he pleaded guilty to youngster enlargement associated to his conduct with a then-underaged fan. He was sentenced to 2 years probation and 200 hours of group service.