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Nickelodeon star Drake Bell is calling out the stars of “Boy Meets World” Will Friedle and strong rider for her past support of her convicted abuser, Brian Peck.
Bell is breaking her silence about the abuse she allegedly suffered at the hands of Peck in the new docuseries “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV,” premiering tonight on Investigation Discovery.
The docuseries shared unsealed court documents from Peck’s trial, which contained letters of support for the convicted sex offender from Friedle and Strong, as well as other stars such as James Marsden, Taran Killam and the late Alan Thicke.
Alex Nikolas, another Nickelodeon child star and participant in the documentary, shared a post on Instagram criticizing the “Boy Meets World” stars, and Bell responded to fans’ comments by insinuating that they, too, were victims of Peck.
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“Will was 27 and Brian told him what he did, and a lot of people turned around and said no, he wouldn’t write a letter, but they did,” Bell wrote. “Will wasn’t manipulated. Brian admitted it to him and wrote the letter anyway.”
He continued: “Then he (Friedle) worked with me on many episodes of (‘Ultimate Spider-Man’) years later and never said a word to me about it. This is because they were told letters were going to be made public. Everyone “They thought the letters would be sealed forever and no one would ever see them. This is their publicist telling them how to get ahead of the story.”
In a separate comment response, Bell also noted that “RIDER WAS 24 when he wrote the letter and Brian told him what he did. He wrote the letter anyway.”
Bell, Friedle and Strong did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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Friedle and strong addressed his support for Peck on his podcast, “Pod Meets World,” earlier this month, ahead of the release of details about the “Quiet on Set” documentary.
“There’s no way they would have manipulated me like that because I was an adult,” Friedle said. “By the time I heard what had happened, I had known this man for years and years, I had no idea that any of this was happening, obviously, and the idea that now, at 24 or whatever he was, 24 or 25 when I discovered it, I didn’t know it, I couldn’t detect it, it was my failure.”
Strong recalled that Peck admitted to the crime but spun the assault around to make it look like Peck was the victim.
“It was always in the context of: ‘I did this, I’m guilty. I’m going to get whatever punishment the government determines, but I’m a victim of jailbait. There was this hot guy. I just did this, and he’s a minor. And we bought that story,” Strong said.
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Neither indicated whether they knew Bell was the victim or who he was at the time.
In the documentary, Bell detailed alleged abuse by Peck during his time on Nickelodeon, remembering the day the relationship went from awkward to full-blown aggression and abuse when he was 15 years old.
“I was sleeping on the couch where I normally slept, and I woke up with him… I opened my eyes, I woke up and he was sexually assaulting me. And I froze and I was in complete shock and I had no idea what to do or how react,” Bell said.
She continued: “The abuse was extensive. And it got pretty brutal, pretty brutal. I don’t know, I really don’t know how to explain that on camera.”
Peck was accused of sexually abusing a child in 2003 and was later charged with eight counts of sexual abuse. Peck was convicted of lewd act on a child and oral copulation of a person under 16 years of age and spent 16 months in prison.
Nickelodeon issued a statement to Fox News Digital about Bell. “Now that Drake Bell has revealed his identity as a plaintiff in the 2004 case, we are shocked and saddened to learn of the trauma he has endured, and we commend and support the strength it took to come forward,” the statement said.
Original article source: Nickelodeon Star Drake Bell Slams ‘Boy Meets World’ Stars for Supporting Abuser in Previous Trial