Drake Bell and Josh Peck teamed up to talk about "Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV" publicly for the first time --- where it was revealed how Josh first found out about the abuse Drake suffered from their former dialogue coach, Brian Peck.
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00:00Most everybody knows about Quiet on Set,
00:03which was kind of an expose of Nickelodeon
00:06and things that happened there.
00:07And I'm sure you've heard about Drake Bell's story
00:11that he was molested by Brian Peck,
00:15who was the dialogue coach.
00:18There was a lot of criticism after Quiet on Set aired.
00:22Criticism toward Josh Peck, no relation to Brian,
00:27for not speaking out and supporting Drake.
00:30You know, they had a show together, Drake and Josh.
00:33Very, very popular, yeah.
00:34And we didn't really hear from Josh
00:36and a lot of people were really, really upset about it.
00:40So Drake appeared on Josh's podcast
00:43and they talked about it
00:44and talked about what Josh knew and what he suspected.
00:49We were in the middle of the investigation,
00:52but nobody had known anything
00:53because Brian hadn't been arrested.
00:54Right.
00:55So I had to come back.
00:57Worst part about it being,
00:58that was my having the monster in your safe place.
01:06You know, it's like that's the only place
01:07I feel comfortable is when I get to set
01:09and hang out with you guys and we goof around.
01:12And then he was gone and I didn't know anything
01:16except I had a feeling something, something happened.
01:20And I remember we're in the car,
01:22it was you, me, and Jill.
01:24And I said, you still talk to Brian?
01:29And you just looked at me like, no, Brian's a really bad guy.
01:35And I remember thinking, gotcha.
01:38So this is a big deal for a lot of reasons.
01:40Obviously these two just sitting down together
01:42for like fans of the show.
01:43This is crazy because obviously through the years,
01:46they've had a pretty tumultuous relationship.
01:48You know, Drake got very upset
01:50that Josh didn't invite him to his wedding.
01:52They had that whole public spout.
01:53So the fact that they're even sitting down
01:55and talking about this is kind of crazy.
01:57And then also all the hate that Josh was getting
02:00for not speaking up and coming forward
02:02is kind of unfair to him
02:03because as they talk about on the podcast,
02:05he didn't really know what was even going on
02:08until he saw the documentary.
02:10He had no idea any of this was going on.
02:12Yeah, that was my take.
02:13Well, what did he mean when he said,
02:14when you said, Brian's a really bad guy?
02:16I said, got it.
02:17What did he get?
02:18I think what he meant was like,
02:20he expanded a little bit on it and said,
02:22I was a 14-year-old kid at the time
02:25and I just kind of thought like, oh, he's a bad guy.
02:27He didn't really say exactly what he thought happened,
02:29just that he got arrested.
02:31He must've done something bad.
02:32So maybe he was just trying to look the other way.
02:34But regardless, it's just obviously
02:37very, very serious allegations.
02:39And Drake gets into the fact
02:41that it really wasn't spoken about that much
02:43because he was worried it was gonna impact their new show
02:47that they were just launching.
02:48So which was right around the timing
02:50that this was all going down.
02:51How did they come back together?
02:53Once the documentary launched,
02:56obviously Josh saw all the stuff that had happened
02:59and reached back out to Drake.
03:01And that's pretty much why they started talking again.
03:04And at least on the podcast,
03:07it seems like their relationship is stronger than ever.