Drake Bell Says Josh Peck ‘Reached Out’ Amid Sexual Abuse Revelations

Drake Bell is asking fans to lay off his former Drake & Josh co-star amid the fallout from explosive revelations he was sexually abused by a Nickelodeon dialogue coach, saying that Josh Peck had quietly reached out to him behind the scenes.

“Not everything is put out to the public,” Bell said in a TikTok posted on Wednesday.

The actor was featured prominently in Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, a haunting four-part investigative docuseries pulling back the curtain on the danger that child performers were put in on Nickelodeon’s sets in the early aughts.

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