Devon Werkheiser, who starred in Nickelodeon’s Ned’s Declassified College Survival Information, has apologized to Drake Bell for mocking the harrowing ID docuseries Quiet on Set: The Darkish Aspect of Youngsters TV.
On Tuesday, Werkheiser awkwardly joked concerning the abuse Bell suffered throughout a TikTok livestream with Ned’s co-stars Lindsey Shaw, and Daniel Curtis Lee. In a video that has been subsequently posted to other social media platforms, Werkheiser jokes in the direction of Lee who’s off digicam, “Daniel, we instructed you by no means to talk about that. Get again in your gap, Daniel, and provides me your holes!”
Realizing what he stated, Werkheiser then makes an attempt to right himself. “Sorry, we shouldn’t joke about this. We actually shouldn’t. Our set was not like that,” Werkheiser says in reference to the reported poisonous and inappropriate habits discovered on the Nickelodeon reveals underneath the purview of producer Dan Schneider.
Werkheiser provides: “No, it’s f***ing terrible. The Drake Bell s***, that’s loopy to listen to. That’s f***ed. And that by no means got here out, which is absolutely wild. Actually wild.”
With the clip of Werkheiser’s feedback going viral, Bell known as him out on X, previously Twitter. “Ned’s Declassless…that is wild…chuckle it up guys…chuckle it up… “Give me your h*les?!!” Actually?!,” Bell tweeted.
After a substantial amount of backlash, Werkheiser, afterward Tuesday, posted an apology on X. “So sorry to Drake. Gutted I damage you,” Werkheiser tweeted together with a screenshot of an extended apology assertion. “I used to be being an fool at present. No approach round it. I really feel horrible that my dumbass was even talking about this with out seeing it. I watched Quiet On Set tonight and am horrified by the gravity of what Drake and others shared. Actually heartbroken about what my fellow actors went via. I can’t imagine they weren’t protected. I’m sorry for compounding any damage,” the assertion learn.
Within the four-part docuseries Quiet on Set, Bell, the star of the Nickelodeon present Drake & Josh, reveals the in depth sexual abuse he suffered from the age of 15 by the hands of dialogue coach Brian Peck and in addition reveals he offered nameless testimony that led to Peck’s 2004 conviction for lewd conduct with a minor. The docuseries additionally outlined the allegations of abuse and office toxicity from a number of Nickelodeon former little one stars, crew and writers that occurred on the units of Schneider’s many reveals on the community.