Drake Bell - Part 2

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Is Drake Bell canceled? Everything's Canceled podcast is back this week to wrap up the second half of the Drake Bell story. Your hosts Lorena and Herman discuss and analyze Drake's latest song and music video "I Kind Of Relate", released concurrently with the documentary "Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV" (2024) on which he revealed he was the victim of child sexual assault by actor/dialogue coach Brian Peck. Will there be a Drake and Josh (2004-2007) reboot? Lorena considers the strangeness of the real life relationship between Drake Bell and Josh Peck and puts it in context with a timeline of Drake's life including his issues with substance abuse and 2021 conviction for attempted child endangerment and disseminating matter harmful to a juvenile. We cover the allegations made by Drake's ex-girlfriend, actress Melissa Lingafelt, on her Tik Tok of physical and verbal abuse, including her description of the verbal abuse saying "imagine the worst type of abuse", mirroring Drake's description of his own abuse from the "Quiet on Set" documentary. We also cover additional allegations made by additional ex-girlfriends Gillian Leos and actress Paydin LoPachin, including the allegation that Drake "slept with 100s of underage girls" and confirmations of similar verbal and physical abuse. We also describe three additional allegations of statutory rape made against Drake by anonymous Tik Tok users, sent to, screenshot and posted to social media by Lingafelt. We briefly consider Drake's response to Lingafelt's allegations. We cover one more concerning Tik Tok video, that appears to show Drake in a relationship with another teenage girl recently, within the the last few years. We also discuss the letter written by actress Kimmy Robertson (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989), Twin Peaks (1990-1991), Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991), in defense of Brian Peck, to the judge in his 2004 case in which he plead "no contest" to charges of oral copulation with a minor under 16 and performing a lewd act with a 14- or 15-year-old. In the hand-written letter she describes Peck's victim, who we now know to be Drake Bell, as a "sleuth-like" and "outrageous, overtly gay oversexed person", who she claims no homosexual male crew members would be alone in a room with. We wrap up by discussing the image we have been presented of a freshly post-rehab, therapized and "healed" Drake Bell. Should we be critical of "Quiet on Set" for not appropriately addressing Drake's past? Can we comprehend and see Drake as both victim and abuser? Should we do the same for Brian Peck considering the statistical likelihood that he could be a victim as well? What does accountability look like for abusers and how do we break cycles of abuse? If you haven't already, check out "Drake Bell - Part 1" and our previous episodes on Nickelodeon, "Quiet on Set", Brian Peck, and Dan Schneider "Nickelodeon - Dan Schneider and Brian Peck - Part 1" and "Nickelodeon - Dan Schneider and Brian Peck - Part 2: Drake Bell vs Brian Peck" available for download now! Please follow and rate our podcast wherever you listen! If you're looking for more Everything's Canceled check out the exclusive episode available later this week on our Patreon: patreon.com/everythingscanceled. 
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