Former Nickelodeon stars Devon Werkheiser, Lindsey Shaw and Daniel Curtis Lee apologized to Drake Bell after joking about his childhood trauma.
Bell, 37, slammed the former Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide stars after they made an inappropriate joke about him being sexually abused when asked about the docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV during a TikTok live on Monday.
After revealing that she was the victim of “unspeakable” and “brutal” sexual abuse at the hands of her former speech coach Brian Peck, in the four-part series, Werkheiser, Shaw and Lee briefly filmed themselves laughing while declaring how their “The set wasn’t like that.’
‘Daniel, we told you never to talk about it. Go back to your hole, Daniel, and give me your holes,” Werkheiser, 33, joked before immediately backing off at the insensitive comment. ‘Sorry, we shouldn’t joke about this. We really shouldn’t.
After seeing footage of the live broadcast uploaded to X, Bell criticized the actors’ rude words.
Former Nickelodeon stars Devon Werkheiser, Lindsey Shaw and Daniel Curtis Lee have apologized after making insensitive comments that appeared to mock the sexual abuse suffered by child star Drake Bell.
‘Ned’s Declassless… this is wild… laugh guys… laugh… ‘Give me your asses?!’ Actually?!’ she shot.
On Thursday, the trio explained in their Ned’s Declassified Podcast Survival Guide Podcast The comments had been taken out of context.
“If you haven’t seen the clip, if you haven’t seen what’s going on, we were on a TikTok Live and they asked us to comment on the documentary Quiet on Set, which we hadn’t seen, and super shit.” “A joke came up that referenced Daniel and it seemed like he was talking about Drake,” Werkheiser explained.
‘We screwed up. I understand. We hadn’t seen the documentary and everyone was asking us for our opinion on it.’
The Artificial actor later admitted he “felt like a piece of shit” after the Drake & Josh star called them “declassed” and criticized them for “laughing” at his trauma.
“I know it sounds like I’m laughing at this and I wasn’t, but I know what it looks like and that Drake saw it…yeah,” Werkheiser clarified.
“I felt so fucking horrible knowing that Drake saw us in that context.”
Shaw, for his part, said he was sorry that the group showed such “insensitivity” to such a serious issue.
The trio were answering a question about the documentary series Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV during a TikTok live on March 18. I understand. We hadn’t seen the documentary and everyone was asking us for our opinion on it,” Werkheiser, 33, said on his podcast Thursday.
The actors starred in the Nickelodeon show Ned’s Declassified Guide to School Survival from 2004 to 2007.
Bell expressed her outrage on X (formerly known as Twitter) after seeing footage of the trio appearing to make light of her trauma during the TikTok live video.
Drake Bell called out the stars of Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide: ‘Ned’s Declassless… this is wild… laugh guys… laugh…’ he wrote on February 2019)
‘I’m sorry. I know that even when there was no intent or malice behind the things people did for me, I know that it has helped me when people meet me where I am and acknowledge something like, “Hey, that was a punch in the gut, ya.” be”. “Whether it was intentional or not, and yes, gut punches suck,” she said.
After watching the documentary series, Werkheiser apologized on Tuesday X.
‘I watched Quiet on Set tonight and I am horrified by the severity of what Drake and others shared. Really heartbroken by what my fellow actors went through. I can’t believe they weren’t protected. I’m sorry to make the pain worse.
Bell described Peck’s abuse of him, which allegedly began when he was 15 and working on The Amanda Show, as “the worst thing anyone could do to a person.”
In the series, the actor and singer explained that his father had hired Peck, now 63, who was a dialogue coach at Nickelodeon, to coach his young son after his career began to take off.
Bell said the abuse began when she was 15 and working on The Amanda Show. His parents had hired dialogue coach Brian Peck, 63, to work with him after the young actor’s career began to take off. She said Peck abused him for six months.
Bell described Brian Peck’s abuse of him as “the worst thing anyone could do to a person” while appearing on Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV (pictured in Burbank in April 2012).
In the docuseries, Bell’s father, Joe, accused Peck of driving a wedge between him and his son.
He claimed that the sexual abuse began during a casting trip he was on with Peck when he was 15, and explained that he was sleeping on a couch when he suddenly woke up and the coach “sexually assaulted” him.
“I froze and was in complete shock and had no idea what to do or how to react,” he recalled in the document.
He described the abuse as “extensive” and recalled feeling “trapped,” admitting that he now “often looks back on that time and wonders how on earth he survived.”
“Brian and I became very close because we had a lot of the same interests, which, looking back, I think was probably a little calculated,” she shared in the doc, which debuted on Discovery on March 17 and is now available for streaming on various platforms.
Bell’s father, Joe, told viewers that he felt something was wrong from the beginning, but that Brian drove a wedge between him and his son.
“I was always within visual distance of them… I was very attentive,” he told the camera.
“Unfortunately, I started to see that Brian was starting to hang around Drake too much and it didn’t sit well with me.”
Joe said Peck would come into his son’s dressing room and “put his arm around his waist, put his hand on his shoulder or put his hand on his arm.”
“This would happen routinely,” he added.
The young actor remained silent about the abuse, but eventually ‘exploded’ and told his mother what had been happening to him.
‘I have no idea what caused it. “I have no idea what happened, but I just screamed into the phone everything that was happening to me,” she said.
Bell rose to fame alongside Josh Peck in their hit comedy Drake & Josh, which ran for four seasons from 2004 to 2007.
The young actor remained silent about the abuse, but eventually ‘exploded’ and told his mother what had been happening to him. “I have no idea what happened, but I just screamed into the phone everything that had been happening to me,” he said.
Peck was initially charged with 11 counts of child sexual abuse, but he reached a deal with prosecutors in 2004 and pleaded no contest to lewd or lascivious acts with a 14- or 15-year-old child and oral copulation with a minor. sixteen
Peck was initially charged with 11 counts of child sexual abuse, but he reached a deal with prosecutors in 2004 and pleaded no contest to lewd or lascivious acts with a 14- or 15-year-old child and oral copulation with a minor. sixteen.
He was sentenced to 16 months in prison and ordered to register as a sex offender.
That designation did not prevent him from being hired for voice work after his release on Disney Channel’s The Suite Life of Zack and Cody.
His last work listed on IMDB.com was 2015’s Freaks of Nature, a show centered on human, vampire, and zombie teenagers trying to protect their city after an alien invasion.