Warning: The next submit accommodates discussions of sexual abuse.
After years of cohosting the Good Guys podcast, Josh Peck is lastly getting a sit-down along with his “number-one visitor”: Drake Bell, his costar on the 2004 Nickelodeon sitcom Drake & Josh.
The 2-part podcast interview — scheduled to be launched on Monday, March 24, and Thursday, March 27 — marks the primary public reunion between the actors because the 2024 docuseries Quiet on Set: The Darkish Aspect of Children TV.
“From day one, you’re our circled number-one visitor,” Peck says in a preview clip as he and cohost Ben Soffer welcome Bell to their podcast. “Subsequent yr, it’ll be virtually 20 years since we filmed [Drake & Josh], and I’m not fairly certain we’ve ever sat down and talked.”
In Quiet on Set, Bell spoke out about being sexually assaulted by Brian Peck (no relation to Josh), a dialogue coach who labored on Nickelodeon reveals All That and The Amanda Present, based on Selection. Brian was arrested in 2003 and pleaded no contest to a cost of oral copulation with a minor beneath 16 and performing a lewd act with a 14- or 15-year-old, and he was sentenced to 16 months in jail and required to register as a intercourse offender, Individuals provides.
Within the preview clip of the podcast interview, Josh tells Bell, “[What] I may have by no means identified at that age was all of the stuff you had been going by means of. … The separation began between us.”
Josh additionally appears to reference Bell’s previous authorized hassle — together with the someday Bell spent in jail for a DUI conviction in 2016.
“What concerning the trauma you endured?” Josh asks Bell, who’s proven tearing up at elements of the interview. “It’s a lot deeper, it’s a lot extra unacceptable. It’s not this clear ‘Properly, he went to jail, so everybody’s all higher now.’”
Josh, too, had private struggles throughout his time within the Nickelodeon highlight, as he revealed in a Individuals preview of the podcast interview.
“You realize what the present means to everybody,” he stated. “You realize that the moments that had been nice had been nice, and we had been extremely fortunate to get to do that factor that we liked. However there’s additionally the reality of every part you went by means of and every part that was an expertise for a child that was unacceptable in so some ways, and also you’ve acquired to wrestle with this. I bear in mind folks would ask me concerning the present, and I’d say, ‘Properly, I misplaced 100 kilos and needed to get sober at 21. Did I appear comfortable?’ Like, it’s a little bit of an indication.”
The primary a part of Josh’s interview with Bell on the Good Guys podcast will probably be launched on Monday, March 24, with the second half following on Thursday, March 27.
If you happen to or somebody you recognize is the sufferer of sexual assault, contact the Rape, Abuse & Incest Nationwide Community’s Nationwide Helpline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673). If you happen to or a liked one are in rapid hazard, name 911.