Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide stars apologize to Drake Bell for joking about his childhood sexual abuse: ‘We f**ked up’

Former Nickelodeon stars Devon Werkheiser, Lindsey Shaw and Daniel Curtis Lee have issued an apology to Drake Bell after he joked about his childhood trauma.

Bell, 37, has criticized the stars of the former Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide after they made an inappropriate joke about being sexually assaulted during a TikTok live on Monday when asked about the docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV.

After revealing that he was the victim of “unspeakable” and “brutal” sexual abuse, at the hands of his former dialogue coach Brian Peck, Werkheiser, Shaw and Lee filmed themselves in the four-part series briefly laughing as they explained how their “set was not so .’

“Daniel, we told you never to talk about that. Go back in your hole, Daniel, and give me your holes,” Werkheiser, 33, joked before immediately backtracking on the insensitive comment. ‘Sorry, we shouldn’t joke about this. We really shouldn’t do that.’

After watching footage of the livestream uploaded to X, Bell slammed the actors’ rude words.

‘Ned’s Declassless…this is wild…just laugh guys…laugh…’Give me your h*les?!’ Real?!’ he shot.

On Thursday the trio explained their work Ned’s released podcast Survival Guide podcast the comments were taken out of context.

“If you haven’t seen the clip, if you haven’t seen what’s going on, we were on TikTok Live and were asked to comment on the Quiet on Set documentary, which we hadn’t seen, and a super s* *A joke came out where it referenced Daniel and made it seem like I was talking about Drake,” Werkheiser explained.

‘We messed up. I understand. We hadn’t seen the doctor and everyone was asking us our opinion about it.’

The Artificial actor later admitted he “felt like a piece of s**” after the Drake & Josh star called them “declassless” and criticized them for “laughing” at his trauma.

“I know it seems 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 just felt so terrible knowing that Drake saw us in that context.”

For her part, Shaw said she regretted that the group was so “insensitive” to such a serious topic.

The trio answered a question about the docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV during a TikTok live on March 18. ‘We messed up. I understand. We hadn’t seen the doctor and everyone was asking us for our opinion on it,” Werkheiser, 33, said on their podcast Thursday.

The actors starred in the Nickelodeon show Ned’s Declassified Guide to School Survival from 2004 to 2007

Bell expressed his outrage on X (formerly known as Twitter) after seeing footage of the trio appearing to clarify his trauma during the TikTok live video

Drake Bell called out the stars of Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide: “Ned’s Declassless…this is wild…just laugh guys…just laugh…” he wrote on X (pictured in New York in February 2019)

‘I’m sorry. I know that even if there was no intention or malice behind the things people have done for me, I know it’s just helped me when people meet me where I am and recognize like, “Hey, that was a gut punch, or it was intentional or not, and yes, belly bumps suck,” she said.

After watching the docuseries, Werkheiser apologized on X Tuesday.

“I watched Quiet on Set tonight and was shocked by the seriousness of what Drake and others shared. Truly heartbroken about what my fellow players have experienced. I can’t believe they weren’t protected. I’m sorry I made the pain worse.’

Bell described Peck’s abuse of him, which allegedly began when he was 15 and working on The Amanda Show, as “the worst thing anyone could do to anyone.”

In the series, the actor and singer explained that his father hired Peck, now 63, who was a dialogue coach at Nickelodeon, to coach his young son after his career took off.

Bell said the abuse started when he was 15 and working on The Amanda Show. His parents hired dialogue coach Brian Peck, 63, to work with him after the young actor’s career took off. He said Peck abused him for six months

Bell described Brian Peck’s abuse of him as “the worst thing anyone could do to anyone” when appearing on Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV (pictured in Burbank in April 2012)

In the docuseries, Bell’s father, Joe, accused Peck of driving a wedge between him and his son

He alleged that the sexual abuse began during a casting trip he took with Peck at age 15, explaining that he was sleeping on a couch when he suddenly woke up to the coach “sexually assaulting” him.

“I was frozen and completely shocked and had no idea what to do or how to react,” he recalled in the doctor’s office.

He described the assault as “extensive” and recalled feeling “trapped.” He admitted that he now “often looks back on that time and wonders how on earth he survived.”

“Brian and I became very close because we had a lot of the same interests, which in retrospect was probably a bit calculated,” he shared in the doc, which debuted on Discovery on March 17 and is now available for streaming on various platforms.

Bell’s father Joe told viewers that he sensed something was wrong early on, but Brian drove a wedge between him and his son.

“I was always within eyeshot of them… I was very attentive,” he told the camera.

“Unfortunately, I started to see that Brian was hanging out with Drake too much, and that didn’t sit well with me.”

Joe said Peck would walk into his son’s locker room and “put his arm around his waist, put his hand on his shoulder, or run it down his arm.”

“This would happen routinely,” he added.

The young actor kept quiet about the abuse, but eventually “exploded” and told his mother what happened to him.

‘I have no idea what caused it. “I have no idea what happened, but I just screamed into the phone what happened to me,” he said.

Bell rose to fame opposite Josh Peck in their hit sitcom Drake & Josh, which ran for four seasons between 2004 and 2007.

The young actor kept quiet about the abuse, but eventually “exploded” and told his mother what happened to him. “I have no idea what happened, but I just shouted into the phone what happened to me,” he said

Peck was initially charged with 11 counts of child sex abuse, but reached a deal with prosecutors in 2004, pleading no contest to lewd or lascivious acts with a 14- or 15-year-old child and oral copulation with a minor. 16

Peck was initially charged with 11 counts of child sex abuse, but reached a deal with prosecutors in 2004, pleading no contest to lewd or lascivious acts with a 14- or 15-year-old child and oral copulation with a minor. 16.

He was sentenced to 16 months in prison and ordered to register as a sex offender.

That appointment didn’t stop him from being hired for voice work after his release on Disney Channel’s The Suite Life of Zack and Cody.

His last work on IMDB.com was 2015’s Freaks of Nature, a show in which teens with humans, vampires and zombies try to protect their city after an alien invasion.