Drake Bell and Devon Werkheiser, Lindsey Shaw and Daniel Curtis Lee
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Ned’s Declassified Faculty Survivor’s Information stars Devon Werkheiser, Lindsey Shaw and Daniel Curtis Lee took to their podcast to specific their regrets after a joke they seemingly made about Drake Bell obtained backlash earlier this week.
On Tuesday, the Nickelodeon youngster stars had been on a TikTok Dwell throughout which they had been receiving feedback from followers asking what their ideas had been on the Quiet on Set: The Darkish Facet of Youngsters TV docuseries, through which Bell got here ahead about his youngster sexual abuse.
Whereas somebody commented, asking in regards to the docuseries, Werkheiser made a joke directed at Lee, saying, “Daniel, we informed you by no means to talk about that. Get again in your gap, Daniel, and provides me your holes!” Followers took that to imply they had been mocking Bell following his claims.
Werkheiser tried to right himself within the video, noting, “Sorry, we shouldn’t joke about this. We actually shouldn’t. Our set was not like that,” referring to the poisonous habits reported on Nickelodeon reveals beneath the purview of producer Dan Schneider on the time.
After Bell referred to as the actors out, Werkheiser shared an apology on X (previously Twitter), writing that he was “gutted” he harm his fellow Nickelodeon star. “I used to be being an fool at present. No manner round it,” he added. “I really feel horrible that my dumbass was even talking about this with out seeing it.”
On this week’s version of Werkheiser, Shaw and Lee’s podcast, Ned’s Declassified Podcast Survival Information, the actors addressed their feedback additional and the docuseries as an entire. Initially of the 45-minute video, Werkheiser defined that they hadn’t seen the docuseries after they made the “tremendous shit” joke.
“Everybody was asking us for our opinions on it, and I get it. Now, having seen the documentary, it’s so disturbing,” he stated. “Now, we’ve watched it, and I get it. If I had simply watched particularly that third episode after which watched us joking like that … I’d be like, ‘Are they sociopaths? Is one thing mistaken with them?’”
Werkheiser additionally addressed Bell retweeting the TikTok video of them, the place the actor-musician wrote, “Ned’s Declassless…that is wild…chuckle it up guys…chuckle it up…”Give me your h*les?!!” Actually?!” The Unhealthy Sister actor stated he felt like a “piece of shit” after seeing that.
“I do know it appears to be like like I’m laughing at this, and I fucking wasn’t, however I do know what it appears to be like like, and that Drake noticed it … yeah,” he stated on the podcast episode. “I simply felt so fucking terrible, understanding that Drake noticed us in that context.”
Later within the podcast, Shaw famous that, no matter their not having gone by means of what different Nickelodeon youngster actors went by means of, they shouldn’t have joked about it in any capability and been insensitive to what everybody else struggled with.
“I hate that this occurred. I hate that we compounded any trauma round this example which means a lot to every of us,” Shaw stated. “I’m sorry. I do know that that even when there wasn’t an intention or malice behind issues individuals have performed for me, I do know that it has simply helped me when individuals meet me the place I’m and acknowledge like, ‘Hey that was a intestine punch, whether or not it was intentional or not.’”
Bell wasn’t the one youngster star to return ahead on Quiet on Set. Different actors, in addition to crew and writers on The Amanda Present, Zoey 101, iCarly, Victorious and Sam & Cat, opened up within the four-part docuseries about abuse, sexism, racism and inappropriate habits on the set of the reveals, led by Schneider.
In a video completely obtained by THR, Schneider addressed the docuseries, noting that he “may see the harm in some individuals’s eyes.”
“It made me really feel terrible and regretful and sorry,” he stated. “I want I may return, particularly to these earlier years of my profession, and convey the expansion and the expertise that I’ve now and simply do a greater job and by no means, ever really feel prefer it was OK to be an asshole to anybody, ever.”
Quiet on Set is streaming on Max now.