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Josh Peck Makes Statement Supporting Drake Bell: “Reliving This Publicly Is Incredibly Difficult”


Josh Peck, of the Nickelodeon hit Drake & Josh, has issued a statement of support of his old co-star Drake Bell, who recently revealed that he’d been sexually abused by a show dialogue coach when he was just 15. In an Instagram post (see it below), Peck said, “I finished the Quiet On Set documentary […]

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. “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.” Peck had come under internet criticism for seeming to keep mum after the revelations made earlier this week in the Investigation Discovery Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV documentary series.

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