Josh Peck, co-star of the Nickelodeon series Drake & Josh has broken his silence and expressed his support on social networks for the victims of alleged abuse, their testimonies were told in the Investigation Discovery docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, which recounts the abuses that child stars were subjected to within the television network.
Through his Instagram account, in which he has more than 19 million followers, Peck assured that he communicated with his former program partner and expressed his solidarity with the victims.
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The actor also claimed that it took him a few days to process after watching the docuseries. However, his statement comes days after he received negative criticism for not publicly expressing support for his coworker and for uploading a video on TikTok during the release of “Quiet on Set,” with the trending audio “If I haven’t talked to you since 2023, take that as a fuck**g sign that you don’t exist for me anymore.” Some social media users called the video a snub to Bell.
To this, Bell reacted on the same social network and urged his fans to take it a little easier with Peck.
“Processing this and going through this is a really emotional time and very, very difficult.” “So not everything is made put out to the public… But I just want you guys to know he has reached out to me and it been very sensitive but he has reached out to talk with me and help me get through this and it’s been really great,” Bell said in his video
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For her part, Nancy Sullivan, who played the mother of “Drake & Josh,” also expressed her support for Bell on Instagram.
Quiet on Set ran on Sunday and Monday and featured interviews with several actors and former child stars who claimed to have experienced abuse and inappropriate behavior on Nickelodeon. Dan Schneider, producer of several of the network’s successful programs, has been the main person identified in the revelations. Since its broadcast, the docuseries has raised a media storm over child abuse in the entertainment industry.
This story was written in Spanish by Daniel Matute in Cultura Colectiva.
