Drake Bell shouldn’t be holding any grudges in opposition to Rider Robust after he wrote a letter of help for his abuser Brian Peck.
The Drake & Josh star, 37, took to X, previously Twitter, on Friday to share that he forgave Robust, 44, for his previous help after that they had a dialog collectively.
“I simply had essentially the most superb dialog with @RiderStrong,” Bell wrote. “We’re all therapeutic collectively. I’ve nothing however love and forgiveness for him.”
Bell claimed in Investigation Discovery’s Quiet on Set: The Darkish Aspect of Children TV docuseries that he had been sexually assaulted by Peck, now 63, when he was a minor.
Within the documentary, it was additionally claimed that the Boy Meets World alum was one of many actors who supported Peck by writing letters to a choose on behalf of the previous dialogue coach throughout his 2003 sexual assault trial for his crimes in opposition to Bell.
Bell had known as out Rider on social media for his help on the time.
“RIDER WAS 24 years outdated when he wrote the letter and was advised by Brian what he did,” Bell wrote in a sequence of since-deleted feedback on a submit by Zoey 101 star Alexa Nikolas that criticised Robust and his Boy Meets World costar Will Friedle for his or her previous help of Peck. “He wrote the letter anyway.”
Nevertheless, on a February episode of their podcast Pod Meets World with former costar Danielle Fishel, Robust and Friedle, 47, mentioned they have been groomed by Peck, who “turned us in opposition to the sufferer,” Friedle mentioned, referring to Bell.
