After receiving online criticism for staying quiet, Josh Peck has finally spoken about the abuse allegations made by his former co-star Drake Bell.
Bell, recently made shocking allegations on the docuseries “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV” where he accused his dialogue coach, Brian Peck of sexually assaulting him. Fans then have Josh Peck a hard time for not speaking out but on Thursday he released a statement that read: “I reached out to Drake privately, but wanted to give my support for the survivors who were brave enough to share their stories of emotional and physical abuse on Nickelodeon sets with the world,” Peck wrote. “Children should be protected. Reliving this publicly is incredibly difficult, but I hope it can bring healing for the victims and their families as well as necessary change to our industry.”
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Drake also confirmed on Wednesday that Josh reached out to him with a TikTok video where he asked fans to take it easy on his former co-star.
“I just want to clear something up,” Bell said in the video. “I’ve noticed a lot of comments on some of Josh’s TikToks and some of his posts. And I just want to let you guys know that processing this and going through this is a really emotional time, and a lot of it’s very, very difficult. So, not everything is put out to the public.”
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Bell added that his former co-star has been supportive and encouraged fans to lay off their initial criticism.
“I just want you guys to know that he has reached out to me, and it’s been very sensitive,” Bell said. “But he has reached out to talk with me and help me work through this and has been really, really great. So, just wanted to let you guys know that and to take it a little easy on him.”
