After opening up about his sexual assault by Nickelodeon dialogue and performing coach Brian Peck, Drake Bell known as out the celebrities of “Ned’s Declassified College Survival Information” for joking in regards to the abuse allegations at Nickelodeon.
Devon Werkheiser, Lindsay Shaw and Daniel Curtis Lee, who have been little one stars on Nickelodeon’s “Ned’s Declassified” within the 2000s and now host a podcast discussing the present, made mild of the abuse allegations made by different Nickelodeon stars that have been revealed on the current “Quiet on Set: The Darkish Aspect of Youngsters TV” docuseries.
In “Quiet on Set,” Bell revealed that he had been sexually assaulted by Peck whereas engaged on Nickelodeon’s “All That” and “The Amanda Present” within the late Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s. Peck was arrested in 2003 on greater than a dozen expenses associated to sexual abuse allegations involving an unnamed minor and was pressured to register as a intercourse offender. “Quiet on Set” additionally revealed allegations of emotional abuse and sexualization of kid actors in opposition to Nickelodeon government Dan Schneider, which he has denied.
On a TikTok dwell video Monday, Werkheiser, Shaw and Lee briefly joked in regards to the Nickelodeon abuse allegations and mentioned “our set was not like that.”
“Daniel, we informed you by no means to discuss that. Get again in your gap, Daniel, and provides me your holes,” Werkheiser says, addressing Lee offscreen, in a video posted on X of the TikTok. “Sorry, we shouldn’t joke about this. We actually shouldn’t. Our set was not like that. No, it’s fucking terrible. The Drake Bell shit, that’s loopy to listen to. That’s fucked. And that by no means got here out, which is admittedly wild. Actually wild.”
Werkheiser and Shaw walked again the jokes earlier than studying a remark by a TikTok consumer out loud that mentioned, “So, ya’ll have been in on it?”
“I’m not speaking about this anymore. Not speaking about this anymore,” Werkheiser mentioned whereas laughing. “Guys, we are able to’t joke like this, Jesus. Generally humor helps us transfer via issues.”
Bell responded on X/Twitter Monday evening, writing “Ned’s Declassless…that is wild…chuckle it up guys…chuckle it up. ‘Give me your h*les!!’ Actually?!”
Bell additionally launched a brand new music video Monday evening, titled “I Form of Relate.” In it, he performs guitar in a set that resembles his character’s bed room within the Nickelodeon present “Drake & Josh,” whereas addressing the trauma from his previous.
“I sort of relate / I discovered magnificence in my ache / I’m operating away / From the abuse and all of the disgrace,” he sings within the track. Within the caption of the YouTube video, he wrote that “this track was impressed by my previous and now that my story is being informed I felt the time was proper to share it.”
Selection has reached out to Bell, Werkheiser, Shaw and Lee for remark.