In the Docuseries “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV,” Drake Bell opened the dark reality of his time on Nickelodeon, shedding light on his past experiences with the old producer Brian Peck.
Emotional revelations have resonated with a lot, because Drake Bell detailed the lasting scars left by his time in the industry.
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Drake Bell overwhelmed with the support of survivors: “ I did not expect the impact to be so great ”
Since the documentary broadcast, Bell has been overwhelmed by the response of other survivors who contacted him.
“It’s really great to have experiences now where, instead of walking at the airport and bringing people and asking for a selfie, they come and share their stories and say:” I watched your documentary and after your interview, I opened up to my husband. This is something I never told anyone, ” said Bell People magazine. “I did not expect the play to have this kind of impact on people.”
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Drake reflects on fans who rediscover his music
Although it was opened on its cathartic past, Bell admits that he always takes him off guard.
“It’s always like, Wow, everyone knows my past and everyone knows my life,” he said. “But at the same time, it is good because my fans, they come back to my old songs of” Telegraph “, for example, which was written and produced while I felt everything. Everything is in this disc lyrically. Fans now come back to these discs and go: “This song is hitting so much harder. He has shouted summits since day 1. ‘”
While he calls the reason why his music resurfaces “heartbreaking”, Bell admitted: “It is artistically that fans return to your catalog and realize:” This is what he really tried to say “.
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Drake Bell to find the strength of faith, therapy and shared stories
Bell heals actively, pulling the strength of his loved ones, his faith and his therapy.
“Hearing the stories of others in group therapy and thinking of yourself:” Oh, Wow, it was a really heavy story. This is what you have lived in your life, maybe I feel a little comfortable to share my story and then I can sympathize with others. Because when you go through something like that, one of the main things is that you are alone, “said the actor People. “But then you hear these other stories and you say to yourself:” I am not the only one. “”
Faith also plays a huge role. “Having a higher power, knowing that you are not alone in this universe, you don’t have to do it by yourself, there is always someone looking to play a big role,” said Bell.
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Drake channels trauma in music with a new powerful song ‘I Kind of Relat’
Shortly after talking about the documentary, he published “I Kind of Relates”, a raw and deeply personal song that addresses the themes of abuse and survival. The accompaniment’s clip has only faded its impact, inspired intense of its Nickelodeon years.
The video opens with a young boy on a television repeating his lines before being introduced into a trailer by an adult man, who then closes the blinds. While the boy gets up from his chair, the backrest and outside of the trailer reveal his name: Drake Bell.
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The lyrics of the song, “Running Away / From The Abuse and All The Shame”, clearly indicates that Bell is no longer hiding from his past. Instead, he resumes his story.
Drake Bell confronts his past in a chip clip
The tone moves spectacularly when Bell appears bruised and bloody, sitting in a car as if he had just undergone a violent accident.
After a surgical intervention, he finds himself in what seems to be a group therapy session before finally looking for a guitar in a setting that looks striking in the room of his room, Drake Parker, shared with his brother-in-law, Josh Nichols (played by Josh Peck), on “Drake & Josh”.
“I tell in a way / I found the beauty in my pain / I fled / mistreatment and all shame / because no one comes / at my place / nobody strikes my door / I tell in a way / the bad decisions that I took / I wanted to stay / but I could not last another day / my gold days / they seem so far and I am.”
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After years of difficulties and personal revelations, Bell’s next stage seems clear: he did not revisit the past; He transforms it into something powerful.
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