Drake Bell Recreates Drake and Josh Set for Music Video After Revealing He Was Sexually Abused

Bell recently revealed that he was sexually abused by dialogue coach Brian Peck while working as a child actor on Nickelodeon

Drake Bell is dealing with his trauma through new music.

Days after the singer/actor, 37, revealed he was sexually abused while working as a child actor on Nickelodeon, he released “I Kind of Relate,” a new song about his experience and an accompanying music video.

The project seemingly alludes to his past, as the track finds him singing “running away / From the abuse and all the shame,” while the visual sees him appearing on a television set reminiscent of his former Nickelodeon series, Drake and Josh.

“This song was inspired by my past and now that my story has been told, I felt it was the right time to share it,” Bell wrote in the caption of the YouTube video.

Drake Bell recreates the ‘Drake and Josh’ set in the music video for ‘I Kind Of Relate’.

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The video opens with a boy reading over his lines on TV until a grown man leads him into a trailer and closes the blinds. As he stands up, the back of the chair reveals his name to be “Drake Bell”, as does the exterior of the trailer.

The video then shows Bell himself, sitting in a car with a bloody face, as if he had just survived a crash.

After undergoing surgery, the “Found a Way” singer sits through what appears to be group therapy and ends up picking up a guitar in a set that looks a lot like the bedroom where his character Drake Parker and his half-brother, Josh Nichols (played by is Josh Peck), divided into Drake and Josh.

“Somehow I relate / I found beauty in my pain / I’m running / From the abuse and all the shame,” he sings on the pop-rock track. “Because no one comes anymore / To my house / No one knocks on my door / Somehow I relate / The wrong decisions I made / I wanted to stay / But I couldn’t last a day / My golden days / They seem so far away and gray / So I run away (I run away).”

Drake Bell at the inaugural Project Thirst Legacy Summit held at Pepperdine University on July 20, 2019.

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Shortly after the release of “I Kind of Relate” on Monday, the former cast member The Amanda Show took to Instagram to open up about the genesis story behind the car crash images in the music video.

“For those who may not catch some of the references in the video. This was my car accident,” he captioned a photo of himself in a hospital bed with bloody hands and face.

“I was stopped at a red light and someone fell asleep at the wheel and hit me head-on at 100km/h,” he continued. “I broke my jaw in three places, broke my neck and lost 9 teeth. My jaw was wired shut for six months. Luckily, I was driving a 1966 Ford Mustang and the power of the car kept it from crushing me, saving my life.”

Drake Bell at the ‘Teen People’ Young Hollywood Issue Party August 7, 2004

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The song and music video come less than a week after the former child star came forward as a survivor of being sexually assaulted by dialogue coach Brian Peck. Bell began talking about the experience, which happened over a six-month period when he was 15, in a preview released ahead of the Investigation Discovery series Silence on set: The dark side of children’s television.

“The video reveals that former Nickelodeon star Drake Bell will share publicly for the first time the story of the abuse he suffered at the hands of Brian Peck, his former dialogue coach who was convicted of his crimes against Drake in 2004 and ordered to register as a sex offender, ” said Warner Bros. Discovery in a press release shared with PEOPLE.

In 2004, in connection with Bell’s case, Peck pleaded no contest to a charge of oral intercourse with a minor under the age of 16, as well as a charge of performing a lewd act with a teenager. The identity of Bell as the victim was not released at the time. Peck spent 16 months in prison and was mandated to register as a sex offender.

The four-part program, which premiered Sunday and continues Monday at 9 p.m. ET/PT, explores Bell’s experience and sheds light on other anecdotes about the toxic, dangerous culture behind some of the most beloved children’s shows of the late 1990s and early 2000s. them.

Bell is among the performers appearing in the documentary series. He previously starred on Nickelodeon All and The Amanda Show from 1999 to 2002 before sending his series to the network, Drake & Joshin 2004.

If you or someone you know has been a victim of sexual abuse, text “STRENGTH” to the crisis line at 741-741 to be connected to a certified crisis counselor.

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