Drake Bell Had 'Amazing' Talk With Rider Strong After Brian Peck Support | 674T3C1 | 2024-04-07 23:08:01
Drake Bell has forgiven Rider Strong for his help of Brian Peck, the person who allegedly assaulted a then-underage Bell.
"I simply had probably the most superb dialog with @RiderStrong," Bell, 37, wrote by way of X on Friday, April 5. "We're all therapeutic collectively. I have nothing however love and forgiveness for him."
Bell claimed in Investigation Discovery's Quiet on Set: The Dark Aspect of Youngsters TV docuseries that he had been sexually assaulted by Peck, now 63, when he was a minor.
Peck, a dialogue coach for Nickelodeon, was arrested in August 2003 for sexually abusing a then-unnamed baby. He pleaded no contest to performing a lewd act with a sufferer round 14 or 15 years previous and to oral copulation with a toddler underneath 16 years previous, which resulted in a 16-month prison sentence. (Brian has no relation to Bell's Drake and Josh costar Josh Peck.)
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Bell's appearance in Quiet on Set, which premiered in March, was the first time he publicly addressed the allegations. The docuseries additionally revealed details from Brian's trial and sentencing, noting that Robust, 44, and a number of other of his Boy Meets World costars had written letters of support advocating for Brian's release.
"He didn't say that nothing had happened. So by the time we heard about this case and knew something about it, it was all the time within the context of, 'I did this factor, I am responsible. I'm going to take whatever punishment the federal government determines, however I'm a sufferer of jailbait. There was this scorching guy! I simply did this thing and he's underage,'" Robust previously recalled on a February episode of his "Pod Meets World" podcast. "And we bought that story line."
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He added, "I by no means heard concerning the other things because, again then, you couldn't Google to seek out out what individuals have been being charged with. So on reflection, he was making a plea deal and admitting one factor — which is all he admitted to us — nevertheless it seems to be like he was being charged with a collection of crimes, which we did not know."
Bell, nevertheless, additional claimed that Robust had been aware of the situation despite his podcast comments.
"RIDER WAS 24 years previous when he wrote the letter and was advised by Brian what he did," Bell claimed by way of social media final month. "He wrote the letter anyway."
When you or someone you understand has been sexually assaulted, contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).
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