The sexual abuse at the hands of Brian Peck occurred while Drake Bell was a 15-year-old cast member on 'The Amanda Show.'
The sexual abuse at the hands of Brian Peck occurred while Drake Bell was a 15-year-old cast member on 'The Amanda Show'Nicole Acosta is a staff writer on the crime team at PEOPLE. She previously worked at Daily Voice and doNYC and is a Mercy College graduate.
Bell began acting at the age of 5, amid his parents' divorce. After mostly working in commercials and small TV parts, he landed an acting job on Nickelodeon'sin 1999. The next year, on the first day of the show's second season, Bell met Brian Peck, a dialogue coach who befriended him and would invite him to his house for acting lessons.
“You know anytime I had an audition or anytime I needed to work on dialogue or anything, I somehow ended up back at Brian's house,” Bell continues. “And it just got worse, and worse, and worse, and worse, and I was just trapped. I had no way out. The abuse was extensive and it got pretty brutal.”“I often look back at that time and wonder how in the world I survived," he says.
Bell’s story is one of many included in the docuseries, which features multiple interviews with former cast members, writers and crew from popular teen series like, premieres across two nights on ID from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET/PT on March 17 and March 18.
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