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Devon Werkheiser, Lindsey Shaw and Daniel Curtis Lee, the former stars of Ned’s Declassified School Survivalist’s Guide, have apologized for making a sexual joke when asked about the Silence on the set: The dark side of children’s television docuseries during a TikTok live.
The former stars were criticized by Drake Bell and criticized online for making light of the abuse.
Werkheiser said on the trio’s podcast Thursday that he was joking with Lee and not talking about the documentary, which he claims he hasn’t seen yet.
“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 ‘Quiet on Set’ documentary, which we hadn’t seen, and a super s “A joke came out that “he was referencing Daniel (Curtis Lee) and it seemed like he was talking about Drake (Bell),” Werkheiser said.
“We screwed up. I understand. We had not seen the document and everyone asked us for our opinion on it.”
He went on to say that the group had “no idea” about the “magnitude” of the abuse Bell suffered from the actions of former dialect coach Brian Peck.
“Now that we’ve seen it… I get it,” Werkheiser added. “If I had watched, especially the third episode, and then seen us joking around like that, I would have thought, ‘Are they sociopaths?’ Is something wrong with you?’”
Werkheiser added: “I know it looks like I’m laughing at this and I’m not, 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.”
In the series, Bell said that Peck began abusing him in the early 2000s, when he was 15 years old and working at Nickelodeon.
Earlier this week, another Nickelodeon star who participated in Silence on the set: The dark side of children, He said he was not impressed with the former producer Dan Schneider’s video. addressing the doctor’s claims. .
Alexa Nikolas, who played Nicole Bristow in Zoey 101 and appeared in Silent on set, He said the video “was not an apology.”
“When someone doesn’t come to you personally and apologize, it’s not an apology,” he said. “If you find out from other people, it’s not really an apology, right? An apology is for the person you hurt. “That’s what an apology is for.”