Drake Bell Forgives Rider Strong After Letter Of Support For His Abuser: “We Are Healing Together”
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Drake Bell revealed on Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV that Brian Peck, a former Nickelodeon dialogue coach, abused him.
In the trial, Peck presented numerous letters of support from people who had worked with him in the past, including Rider Strong.
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Bell shared an update after conversing with the Boy Meets World alum.
“I just had the most amazing conversation with @RiderStrong we are all healing together. I have nothing but love and forgiveness for him,” Bell posted on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
I just had the most amazing conversation with @RiderStrong we are all healing together. I have nothing but love and forgiveness for him.
— DrakeBell.ethᵍᵐ (@DrakeBell) April 5, 2024
“I haven’t gotten an apology, or a sorry, from anybody that had written letters or was involved in supporting him at all,” Bell said in an interview on The Sarah Fraser Show podcast.
Bell said that some of the people who supported Peck were part of the Drake & Josh crew, who he would work alongside with for many years. The actor was unaware that these people wrote letters of support for Peck until ID petitioned the court to unseal the documents in the case.
“I had no idea that for four years, I was working alongside people who had supported him, and probably in the back of their mind were thinking of me in a certain way, and I thought they were my friends,” Bell said in the podcast.
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