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Drake Bell and Devon Werkheiser
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Devon Werkheiser, who starred in the Nickelodeon movie. Ned’s Declassified School Survival GuideHe has apologized to Drake Bell for mocking the heartbreaking ID docuseries. Silence on the set: the dark side of children’s television.
On Tuesday, Werkheiser awkwardly joked about the abuse Bell suffered during a TikTok livestream with ned co-stars Lindsey Shaw and Daniel Curtis Lee. In a video that has been slater posted on other social media platforms, Werkheiser jokes to Lee, who is off-camera: “Daniel, we told you never to talk about that. Go back to your hole, Daniel, and give me your holes!
Realizing what he said, Werkheiser tries to correct himself. “Sorry, we shouldn’t joke about this. We really shouldn’t. Our set wasn’t like that,” says Werkheiser, referring to the toxic and inappropriate behavior reported on Nickelodeon shows under the supervision of producer Dan Schneider.
Werkheiser adds: “No, it’s fucking horrible. Drake Bell’s shit, it’s crazy to listen to. That’s fucked up. And that never came to light, which is really crazy. Really wild.”
With the clip of Werkheiser’s comments going viral, Bell called him in X, formerly Twitter. “Ned’s Declassless… this is wild… laugh guys… laugh… “Give me your asses?!!” Seriously?!” Bell tweeted.
After much backlash, Werkheiser, later on Tuesday, posted an apology on. “I feel so sorry for Drake. Gutted I hurt you,” Werkheiser tweeted along with a screenshot of a longer apology statement. “He was being an idiot today. There’s no way to avoid it. I feel horrible that my idiot was talking about this without seeing it. I saw 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 aggravate the pain,” the statement said.
In the four-part docuseries Silence on setBell, the star of the Nickelodeon show Drake and Josh, reveals the extensive sexual abuse she suffered from the age of 15 at the hands of speech coach Brian Peck and also reveals that she provided anonymous testimony that led to Peck’s 2004 conviction for lewd conduct with a minor. The docuseries also profiled allegations of workplace abuse and toxicity from multiple former Nickelodeon child stars, crew and writers that occurred on the sets of Schneider’s numerous shows on the network.