Drake Bell says Josh Peck reached out after the silence at the set premiere

Drake Bell shared that Jos Peck contacted him after the bomb’s release Quiet on Set docuseries.

“I want to clarify something. I’ve noticed a lot of comments on some of Josh’s TikToks and some of his posts and I just wanted to let you guys know…processing this and going through this is a very emotional time and a lot of it is very difficult,” Bell, 37, said via TikTok on Wednesday, March 20. “So not everything is made public. But I want you to know that he contacted me.”

Bell noted that opening up about the abuse he suffered during his time at Nickelodeon has been a “very sensitive” issue for him, explaining that he struggled with sharing his story. However, Bell was grateful that Peck, 37, checked on him privately.

“He reached out to me to help me get through this,” Bell added. “And he’s really great.”

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Bell encouraged his followers to “take it easy a little bit” with his former Drake & Jos costar, who has not yet publicly commented on the documentary.

The four-part docuseries, which premiered on Sunday, March 17, chronicles the toxic work environment at Nickelodeon in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The series focused on the rise and fall of its creator Then Schneider and other cases of abuse on set.

Bell was the subject of two episodes, in which he came forward about his sexual misconduct lawsuit against the dialogue coach Brian Peck (who is not in a relationship with Josh). Brian, 63, was arrested in August 2003 after being accused of sexually abusing a then-unnamed child, now confirmed to be Bell. Brian pleaded no contest to committing indecent acts with a victim approximately 14 or 15 years old, and to oral copulation with a child under 16 years of age, which resulted in a 16-month prison sentence.

In the Doctor, Bell broke his silence about being groomed and attacked by Brian, who he met while working on it All of that as a teenager.

“I really don’t know how to work that out in front of the camera. … Why don’t you consider the worst things that someone can do to someone as an assault, and that will answer your question,” Bell said. “I don’t know how else to say it. It wasn’t a one-off.”

Josh and Bell continued playing All of that together before they got their own series, Drake & Jos. Although the duo were initially good friends, they fell out after the show ended in 2007. The tension arose in June 2017 when Bell was not invited to Josh’s wedding. Paige O’Brienbut Bell revealed it We weekly two months later, all was well between the former colleagues.

“We’re actually closer than we’ve been in a while… It’s absolutely amazing. It’s all love. We’re brothers, man,” the musician said Us in September 2017. “We have been working together for 18 years, maybe even longer now. So we’ve had our ups, we’ve had our downs, it’s like we’re real brothers. It’s kind of like sibling rivalry and sibling love, and it’s the whole thing.

If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, please contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).