Biggest Allegations from Nickelodeon 'Quiet On Set' Documentary Including Drake Bell's Abuse, Fat-Shaming Comments, & Racist Sketches

Drake Bell Was Sexually Abused by a Dialogue Coach

In the doc, Drake Bell publicly spoke out for the first time about being repeatedly molested by dialogue coach Brian Peck when he was a child.

“Brian and I became really close because we had a lot of the same interests, which looking back, I think that was probably a little calculated,” Drake said.

Drake booked a gig on Nickelodeon’s The Amanda Show in 1999, at the age of 13. The next year, on the first day of the show’s second season, he met Brian Peck, a dialogue coach who befriended him and would invite him to his house for acting lessons.

His dad Joe Bell expressed concerns with production and said he was uncomfortable with Brian always being around his son.

Brian later became Drake‘s manager, coming to acting auditions in Los Angeles, which were at least an hour away from where he lived with his mother, so Drake would frequently spend the night at Brian‘s house, but one night everything changed.

“I was sleeping on the couch where I usually sleep and I woke up to him… I opened my eyes and I woke up and he was…he was sexually assaulting me,” Drake said, who was 15 at the time. “And I froze, and was in complete shock and had no idea what to do or how to react.”

He added, “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. 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 said.

“I remember all of the abusive events, but everything outside of that is very blurry to me, which is a bummer because I experienced a lot of great things in my life and my career during this time,” Drake continued. “But it was so overshadowed and ruined by what I was dealing with on the inside that it made it really hard for me.”