Drake
Bell
Describes
How
Brian
Peck
Got
Him
Alone

Bell
described
Peck
purposely
driving
a
wedge
between
him
and
his
manager
father

Joe
Bell
(who also
appears
in
the ID
series
and
backs
up
his
son’s
account)
so
that
he
could
spend
more
time
with
the
teen,
who
had
a
recurring
role
on The
Amanda
Show before
he
was
offered
his
own
sitcom, Drake
&
Josh,
in
2004.

Peck
would
take
him
to
auditions,
Bell
said,
and then have
him
sleep
over,
saying
it
was
too
late
to
drive
him
back
home.
One
night,
Bell
described,
he
woke
up
on
the
couch
(where
he
said
he
always
slept)
and
Peck
was
sexually
assaulting
him.

“I
froze
and
was
in
complete
shock
and
had
no
idea
what
to
do
or
how
to
react,”
Bell
said, “and
I
had
no
idea
how
to
get
out
of
the
situation.”

He
recalled
Peck
being
apologetic,
but
the
abuse
didn’t
stop—and
Bell
said
he
didn’t
tell
anyone,
not
even
when
the
mom
of
his
then-girlfriend
realized something was
wrong
and
took
him
to
a
therapist.
He
admittedly
believed
that
if
he
said
anything,
his
career
would
be
over. 

Eventually,
he
said
he “exploded”
and
told
his
mother
everything,
and
she
immediately
called
police.
Bell
said
that
detectives
made
him
give
an “excruciatingly
detailed”
account
of
the
abuse
and
then
had
him
call
Peck
to
prompt
a
confession
over
the
phone
while
they
listened
in.
Peck “just
started
a
full-on
confession,”
Bell
said,
and
was
subsequently
arrested
on
Aug.
20,
2003.