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Drake Bell Marks One Year Since Telling His Sexual Abuse Story in ‘Quiet on Set’: ‘I Didn’t Expect to Have That Kind of Impact on People’
Drake Bell marked one year since going public with being sexually abused by his Nickelodeon dialogue coach Brian Peck.
I don’t want to sugarcoat it and make the message, ‘Hey, all you got to do is just tell somebody and get your story out and when you wake up the next day, it’s going to be gone and everything’s going to be fine and you’re going to walk through life without any pain or sorrow or sadness!’ It’s always going to be there, but it’s a lot nicer getting support.” In 2003, Peck, 43 at the time, was arrested on 11 charges — including sodomy, lewd act upon a child 14 or 15 by a person 10 years older, and oral copulation by anesthesia or controlled substance — but the victim was not named until Bell stepped forward. During Peck’s 2004 trial, many actors such as James Marsden, Taran Killam and ‘Boy Meets World’ stars Will Friedle and Rider Strong wrote letters of support in his defense.
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