Drake Bell Calls out "Ned’s Declassified" Cast for Joking about Sexual Abuse

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Drake Bell Calls Out "Ned’s Declassified" Cast for Joking about Sexual Abuse
by Ryan Schwartz
March 19, 2024


Drake Bell is calling out a trio of fellow Nickelodeon grads for making light of his childhood trauma.

In a TikTok Live, the cast of "Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide" could be seen laughing about the recent revelations that Bell suffered sexual abuse at the hands of convicted child sex offender Brian Peck, a former dialogue coach.




"Ned’s Declassified" star Devon Werkheiser yukking it up with his former co-stars, who initially remain off screen.

“Get back in your hole, Daniel [Curtis Lee],” Werkheiser jokes. “Give me your holes!” He then looks directly into the camera to say, “Sorry, we shouldn’t be joking about this. We really shouldn’t.” But he continues laughing.

“Look, this is about us,” he claims, referring to the "Ned’s Declassified" cast. “Our set was not like that…. It’s f—king awful. The Drake Bell s—t, like, that’s crazy to hear. That is f—ked, man. And that never came out, which is really wild. Really wild.”




It’s at this point that Lindsey Shaw enters the frame; fellow co-star Daniel Curtis Lee remains off screen. Werkheiser then appears to respond to a TikTok user comment, which he first reads aloud.

“‘Oh, so you all were in on it,'” the comment read. Werkheiser laughs again. “I’m not talking about this anymore,” he answers. “Guys, we can’t joke like this. Jesus!”




Upon seeing the clip, Bell called out Werkheiser, Shaw and Lee on X.

“Ned’s Declassless…this is wild…laugh it up guys…laugh it up…”Give me your h*les?!!” Really?!”

https://tvline.com/news/drake-bell-s...eo-1235190191/

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Devon Werkheiser Apologizes to Drake Bell after Mocking Sexual Abuse Allegations: “I Was Being an Idiot”
by Armando Tinoco
March 20, 2024


Drake Bell has received an apology from former Nickelodeon star Devon Werkheiser after he and his co-stars from "Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide" seemingly mocked the allegations raised in the docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV.

Werkheiser would later post an apology to Bell and other Nickelodeon stars for mocking their lived experiences.



“So sorry to Drake. Gutted I hurt you,” read the post shared on X.

He continued, “I was being an idiot today. No way around it. I feel horrible that my dumbass was even speaking about this without seeing it. I watched Quiet on Set tonight and am horrified by the gravity of what Drake and others shared. Truly heartbroken about what my fellow actors went through. I can’t believe they weren’t protected. I’m sorry for compounding any hurt.”

https://deadline.com/2024/03/devon-w...ns-1235864100/

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Are we supposed to suddenly now forget that Drake Bell himself, is an abuser even if you take the stuff about him and Brian Peck out of the equation? This is the same Drake Bell who was previously arrested over grooming a 12 year old and sending naked pictures of himself to underaged girls (when he was 31 years old).

During the hearing, Bell's victim, now 19, spoke publicly for the first time to read a statement in which she called the Drake & Josh alum "the epitome of evil." She accused Bell of grooming her from the age of 12 before allegedly sexually abusing her when she was 15.

"I chose to write this statement because I want justice to be served more than anything," she began over Zoom. "The only time that the defendant has appeared in court in person was on June 3 for his arraignment, which was before the media found out about the case. He has appeared in court today over Zoom instead of appearing in person. This doesn't surprise me and shows what a coward he is, but I am not a coward."

She detailed the "pain" Bell allegedly caused her, which she said resulted in panic attacks and nightmares. She also said her parents have spent more than $7,000 for her to go to therapy.

"He was calculating. He preyed on me and sexually abused me," she said, alleging that he sent her photos of his genitalia. "He is a monster and a danger to children."

She concluded, "Jared Drake Bell is a pedophile and that is his legacy."

In a series of TikTok videos posted last August, Melissa Lingafelt, who dated Bell when she was 16 and he was 20, detailed how he emotionally and physically abused her over the course of their three-year relationship, from 2006 to 2009. “I don’t even want to get into the underage girls thing,” she concluded in the since-deleted TikTok. “I mean, I will, but I’m scared.”

The video spread like wildfire online, and soon after Lingafelt, who records music under the stage name Jimi Ono, says she received a flood of messages from other former girlfriends of Bell’s, who recounted similar allegations. There were also concerning messages from fans who claimed they had sexual relationships with the adult actor when they were underage.

Lingafelt was quickly lambasted by fans, who demanded proof of the abuse and questioned why she was speaking out now. “Last time I checked, abuse doesn’t have an expiration date,” she tells The Daily Beast.

However, the story quickly died down when Bell issued a statement claiming that he’d never abused Lingafelt and attempted to cast doubt on her motive for coming forward. But now, Bell, 34, has a mugshot on charges that Lingafelt, 31, claims that she’s observed firsthand.

“What he’s being arrested for right now is a prime example of what I would witness, him having inappropriate conversations online with underage girls,” she says, claiming that she had seen him exchanging emails with “extremely young girls.”

“I saw really questionable, crazy **** on his computer. The stuff he’d be looking at was ****ing insane.”

“I don’t pray that people will come forward,” she adds. “I just know that they will.”

For Lingafelt, Bell’s arrest brings no form of vindication. “I don’t have any happiness about this,” she says. “I would love to not have any association [with him]. It makes me nervous, it gives me a lot of anxiety, to be honest. I want the people—the kids—to be able to talk for themselves and stand up for themselves. I’m glad they won’t be hushed in the same way that I was. I hope that me talking about my ******** was able to help someone else come forward. So, I guess it’s bittersweet in a way, like, everyone who was calling me a piece of ****, can you just look at this?”

Lingafelt describes her relationship with Bell as “highly tumultuous” and “really awful.” “He was extremely physical. Multiple times the cops would be called,” she shares. “I would run away; I would leave the house, because he had trained me to protect him. So, if the cops were called, I would just get out of there.”

Lingafelt scoffed at Bell’s initial denial and the subsequent coverage of it, saying that her claims were basically swept under the rug afterward. “They didn’t cover that all these other girls who dated him for years are saying the exact same thing,” she says.

“Everyone was coming at me, ‘Give me proof that he ****ing beat you.’ But who the **** was asking Drake for proof that I asked him for money? Not a single ****ing soul. It was just covered up. His comeback letter was highlighted more than my actual [claim].”

And then there's this "blind item" from July 2021 that's allegedly about Drake.

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Ned's Declassified Star Devon needs a reality check, so, let's get into it.

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http://www.agcwebpages.com/BLINDITEMS/2024/APRIL.html

40. ENTERTAINMENT LAWYER 04/03 **10**

Reader Blind: This former child actor (Devon Werkheiser) (“Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide”), who was recently under fire for an insensitive reaction to the Quiet On Set doc., is hiding information involving Dan Schneider and top executives from Nickelodeon. This info. could bring down Schneider along with the whole of Nickelodeon. The people involved are trying to keep this individual from speaking out. Devon Werkheiser/”Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide” (‘Quiet on Set’: Devon Werkheiser Apologizes to Drake Bell For Mocking Docuseries)