Will Friedle and are detailing their first conversation with following the release of earlier this year. The alums had for Brian Peck, a former dialogue coach, during his 2004 case, where he was ultimately convicted of sexually assaulting a Nickelodeon child star, who remained unnamed at the time. Peck spent 16 months in prison and had to register as a sex offender.
Friedle and Strong revealed in a of their podcast — after learning that Investigation Discovery’s docuseries was being made — that they had been close friends with Peck at the time and were asked to write character letters in his defense. Only in March, when was released, did they learn that Bell was the 15-year-old assaulted by Peck. Though Friedle was in the courtroom during Peck’s trial, he shared on that neither he nor Strong knew Bell was the victim in the case at the time.
“I’m sitting in the back of the courtroom. There’s no social media. I’m 26 years old at the time.
I don’t watch Nickelodeon. I don’t know who Drake Bell is. I see a kid walk into the courtroom, and I’m like, OK, I’ve been lied to.
Automatically I know this,” Friedle explained, noting that Peck told him the person was “almost 18” and that “one thing happened one time.” Bell shared in the , which was released weeks after the initial episodes, that he had worked with Friedle on , 10 years after the case, and that he had “a lot of opportunity to apologize or talk about it” but never did. However, Friedle a.
