Fame. Uh, he'd liked to be walked on a leash and play really
dirty, kinky sex games. Is the guy put the cock in the peacock
network? Okay, bitch, Hey, everybody, aj Benzi here with fame
as a bitch. This is your free show. I'm recording this on March
fifteenth, twenty twenty four. You'll probably get it later tonight or first thing
Saturday, which would be the sixteenth. Either way, keeping my promise giving
you two free shows a week, helping the birdies jump off their little branches
and come to Patreon dot com slash. Fame is a bitch, especially now
with everything that's cooking up. I'll tell you something, birdiess. I pride
myself on the fact that when I started this podcast some seven years ago,
at the zenith of the me Too movement and the beginning of present in Trump's
four year beautiful Rain, purple Rain, No, Donald, don't sing purple
Rain. Never wanted to coz you any problems. Okay, Donald, never
wanted to coase you any pain. That's the Democrat, all right. Anyhow,
seven years ago began this podcast, me too movement was raging. Trump
was in office. I said before I felt I knew too much about what
was going on all around us, and I had to have a platform to
have people hear me and properly describe the landscape of Washington, DC and my
past battles, lawsuits, death threats, and then a lasting friendship with Donald
Trump. And also because I knew so many of the men who would being
picked off one by one and mass by scorned women, and as I said,
some badly deserved it. Some others I feel were sandbagged and didn't deserve
the penalty for what they allegedly did, especially when some women could come forward
with absolutely no proof of assault whatsoever. It was, to put it mildly,
a wild time. But I also wanted to start this podcast because I
had and continue to have a hatred for all the pedophiles who were openly employed
in Hollywood, and a great deal of concern for their victims. As I
said, it was a crazy time in this world, also a great time
to start a new podcast. I had a lot to say about the shape
our country was in, as well as the way Hollywood was going down in
flames. And I also had just come off writing for the tabloids for a
few years, and I had a vast knowledge of who's who and what's what,
and it was my promise to point out and take down these creepy pedophiles
while naming names. Let me tell you, some seven years ago, not
many people had the balls or the knowledge to do that, but I did,
and I still have the biggest balls. Of all the people you listen
to, I stand on my business when it comes to that, and on
top of everything else, I know, I broke more stories than any other
podcast hosts. Most of them are just impostors who regurgitate everything they read and
have nothing to offer. Otherwise you stumbled upon these shows. They have no
inside information, They don't know the town or the players involved. But you
guys know that I do. My patrons especially know I do because they've consistently
gotten all my breaking stories and exclusives. And you can too by just going
to patreon dot com. Slash fame is a bitch. Five bucks a month
gets you every day. Now, then, Gang, Today we're gonna talk
about a former child star, Drake Bell and the pedophile who practically destroyed his
life. Brian Peck, a fuck whose name I was never afraid of concerned
to mention because all these pedophiles are cowards. I remember I got pushed back
once when I began talking about a gay publicist who had weighed too many young
male clients on his roster, all pretty boys, and I called him out
and when he heard, he sent me a tweet and told me to stop,
and I said, fuck you. You know that I know about you,
so go ahead and do something about it. He never did, and
now he's dead. His name is Jeff Ballad, and dot at sixty four
years old, kind of too young to die. But he was sick for
a while. He was sick because I always tell you people are as sick
as their secrets, and Jeff Ballad had secrets, Okay. He represented at
some time or another, zach Efron, Ryan Seacrest, Jared Leto, Charlie
she Willie Ames, See, Thomas Howell, Christopher Atkins, Adam Rich,
Ricky Schroeder, Kirk Cameron, and last but not least, Corey Feldman.
He had all these guys when they were very young. And when I was
hanging with Willie Ames back in was it two thousand and six, he would
be on the phone with Jeff Ballard quite a bit when we did celebrity fit
club, and he would ask Jeff his advice for certain things. And one
day I asked, Willie, we're in bed in our bunk. I asked
him if he was ever approached by Jeff ballad in a weird manner, and
WILLI said, no, I wasn't. I wasn't, but I'm aware of
the rumors out there. I took Willie at his word, but if anything
can win down, I don't think he would have told me anyhow, after
all, him and I had just met. But Willie Ames, as I
later found out as we got closer, went through his troubles when I first
met him. The guy had huge addiction issues, and those things sometimes begin
because some people want to forget what occurred in their youth. So who knows.
Anyhow, Drake Bell is speaking out, he's getting the TV docuseries treatment,
and he's being as honest as I wish they all would be. Drake
Bell described for the first time the horrific grooming and set through abuse he experienced
at the hands of the disgraced Nickelodeon employee Brian Peck when Drake was just fifteen
years old. This comes in the third episode of the investigation Discovery docuseries Quiet
on Set The Dark Side of Kids TV, and in that show, Drake
Bell recalls the first time he was allegedly molested during a sleepover at Brian Peck's
house. He said, he was sleeping on the couch where he usually slept,
and one day he woke up to Brian Peck and he opened his eyes.
He woke up and he saw him and felt him sexually abusing him.
And he said he froze and he was in complete shock and had no idea
what to do or how to react. He had no idea how to get
out of the situation. Now, Drake Bell was a Nickelodeon kid and he
met Brian Peck while filming season two of The Amanda Show. And his luck
would have it, or his bad luck would have it, he was staying
at Brian Peck's house. Brian Peck was a dialogue coach. He stayed in
his house in Los Angeles because it was closer to the set than his mother's
house in Orange County, California. That's forty minutes away, so pedophiles always
know to get a Hollywood adjacent home. Now, Peck is now sixty two
years old, and he had forstered a close relationship with Belle, who's now
thirty seven, and also other kids. Even the child star Kyle Sullivan recalled
in this documentary that even all the parents love Brian Peck, but Drake Bell's
father, Joe wasn't his trusting and he says on this show that he expressed
concern over his then teenage son spending too much time with an adult male and
he said, I don't see anything abnormal, but it just doesn't seem I
just don't have a good feeling, he says in the episode that pisses me
off. Damn it. His father said he saw all the signs his son
was in the hands of a serious predator, and he allowed it to continue.
Why because a lot of these parents love money insane more than their kids
do. But make no mistake, Joe Bell failed the dad test right then
and there. Now at this point, it's only fair to point out that
my niece Rowan Blanchard, who was the flower girl at my wedding when she
was two years old and later became the star of the Disney show Girl Meets
World, she once reported what she felt was a male actor acting inappropriately with
a female minor on the set, and after she reported it to the showrunner,
nobody spoke to her the next day. One person even asked her if
she was trying to ruin that certain someone's career, and I believe. I
don't know for sure, but I believe she was speaking about the actor Ben
Savage, who was once the star of Boy Meets World. I could be
wrong, but that's what I think. Anyhow, back to Drake Bell and
his father, who was allegedly dismissed by producers who reportedly pointed out that Peck
is gay. So Joe was just being homophobic and he didn't understand that the
coach was just one of those guys who's very touchy feely. See what they
do these people. You can't complain about anyone who's gay, because that automatically
mean he'sue a homophobe, and that's a quick way to end your son's career.
But Joe always felt ostracized after speaking out and then became allegedly pushed from
his son's life. And once Drake can actually become a victim of sexual assault,
he says, Brian Peck was very apologetic and he promised, he promised
it would never happen again, but of course it did. Drake Bell recalls
in this docuseriies how Brian Peck convinced his mother and others around him to allow
Drake to stay over in his house, where this abuse got worse and worse.
Drake says in the show, I was just trapped. I had no
way out, and the abuse became extensive and pretty brutal. How brutal,
he said, why don't you think of the worst stuff that someone can do
to somebody as a sexual assault? And then I'll answer your question. I
don't know how else to put it. He says. He didn't tell anyone
because he was scared. Until now, he never talked about what happened to
him outside of being in therapy. He also worked on I Carly, and
he recalled how Brian Peck would threaten his career and he would say things like,
well, you're never gonna work with this person. He would say that,
hoping that would stop him from speaking out. But when Drake landed his
leading role in the Nickelodeon sitcom Drake and Josh and Peck attempted to get cast
in it, That's when he said to himself, this ain't gonna happen.
You're not coming anywhere near this show. Imagine this pedophile voice coach wants to
be cast in the show. And at that point, Drake said he exploded
on the phone with his mother and told her everything. And then a police
investigation was launched and he worked with officers to secretly record Brian Peck by telling
him on a call quote, I'm really struggling with this stuff now, I'm
so torn up, I'm so broken, I'm emotionally distressed right now. Why
did this happen? And that prompted Peck to confess his crimes, and Drake
recalls on the show how strenuous the ordeal was reliving his abuse in front of
strangers in the police department. He says because of that, he lost his
hair, he got big scabs on his head from the stress, and the
emotions that were going through him were relief and fear and only kept thinking it
was am I gonna survive this? But lo and behold. In twenty three,
Brian Peck was arrested eleven charges, including sodomy, a leude act against
the child, and oral copulation of a person under sixteen. And get this
oral copulation by anesthesia or a control substance, meaning he knocked the kid out
and then had his way with him. And during the trial, Drake recalls
how Brian Peck somehow had a lot of support from people in the industry and
that makes you sick, including a few famous actors, Boy Meets World stars
and alumni. Will Tridle and right Or Strong recently spoke about writing letters to
the judge in favor of Brian Peck and how they now deeply regret their decision
because they were brainwashed. Back then, Drake said he looked at them and
thought, what the fuck are you guys doing? How dare you? You
will forever have the memory of sitting in his courtroom and defending this person,
And I'll forever have the memory of the person you're defending, violating me and
doing unspeakable acts and crimes. And That's what I'm gonna remember. He also
said the judge received forty one letters that consisted of victim blaming, and they
said that Peck must have been pressured and pushed beyond belief to do what he
did. How do you push and pressure a pedophile or a gay man from
doing They don't need to be pushed, so he got convicted, and following
the conviction, Drake says, believe it or not, Dan Snyder, who
we like to call Dan getting the Van Snyder, who was decreated behind a
lot of Nickelodeon hits. He tried to comfort Drake Bell by asking do you
need anything for me? Is there anything you need? Just understand Snyder.
Schneider was accused of emotional abuse himself, and the claims man against him are
also detailed on Quiet on the Set The Dark Side of Kids TV. Now
as an adult, Drake has gone on to have issues of his own as
he copes with his childhood trauma. Who would doubt that. In twenty twenty
one, he pleaded guilty to child in endangermine. At the prosecute, it
is found he once sent inappropriate social media messages to a fifteen year old girl
he'd met online. Drake said he was ridiculed online over the allegations and struggled
with substance abuse amid the turmoil. That's why I looked at Willie and thought
maybe something like that happened to him. Two years later, in twenty twenty
three, he was briefly reported missing and then received a mental health evaluation once
police found him. Any thinks that led to a lot of self destruction and
a lot of self loathing because he would try and just escape in alcohol abuse
and substance abuse, anything to escape, cocaine, alcohol, whatever it was,
he took it. And he said, there was definitely a slow decline
in my mental health and my sobriety because I was just lost. I was
at rock bottom, and I checked into treatment and I got to go through
a lot of trauma therapy, a lot of grief therapy, and he was
surrounded by people who, for the first time in a long time, wanted
to just see him get better. Now. Brian pet for his part,
guess what. He returned to working on children's shows after his short stint in
jail. Isn't that wonderful Now he's a convicted felon and a pedophile and he
landed gigs at Disney Channels The Sweet Life of Zack and Cody, where he
worked alongside the director Rich Coral and stage manager Beth Coral, who both worked
on Drake and Josh and Drake Bell was just hoping that the outcome would be
that Brian Peck goes to jail and he's in there while, and that he
would never be able to work with kids again, which would in turn pretty
much mean that it's not going to work in Hollywood because very few productions don't
have at least one kid on the set. But that's not what happened at
all. Brian Peck went on to work on three episodes of The Sweet Life,
offset he wasn't near kids during that. He was reportedly immediately fired once
Disney learned of his conviction. They should have learned of his conviction as soon
as it happened. But everybody's lazy, and everybody wants to make money and
stay famous. It makes me sick. Fame is by far the worst drugs.
Forget alcohol, Forget cocaine and heroina, crack or crystal meth. Fame
is the worst pipe you can keep taking hits from. Nickelodeon is issued statement
saying though we cannot corroborate or negate allegations or behaviors from productions decades ago,
Nickelodeon, as a matter of policy, investigates all formal complaints as part of
our commitment to fostering a safe and professional workplace free of harassment. Blah blah,
fucking blah. They said their highest priorities are the well being of not
just our employees and cast and crew, but of all children. And we've
adopted numerous safeguards over the years to help ensure we're living up to our own
high standards and the expectations of our audience. How about just don't hire fans
anymore around kids. Of course, Drake Bell is dismayed, and he was
sadden to learn of the trauma that he went through. And look, I
gotta commend the guy for the strength that he displayed to come forward. But
the worst part is Brian Peck figured out how to convince Drake's mother and everyone
to anytime this kid would have an audition or anytime he needed to work on
dialogue or anything, he somehow always ended up back at Brian Peck's house and
things just got worse and worse and worse and worse, and Drake Bell was
trapped and had no way out. He said, the abuse was extensive and
it got pretty brutal. I don't know how to elaborate this on camera,
but like I said, think of the worst stuff that someone has ever done
to somebody as a sexual assault, and then I'll answer your question. I
don't know how else to put it. What I don't understand, gang,
is how Brian Peck was able to return to working on children's shows in any
capacity. I don't care if he was a fucking janitor. Once he did
time in prison for all those horrible pedophilic things that should have been enough.
Isn't it enough he was fired? And why was he even hid in the
first place. Isn't that a kin to having a pretlar school teacher worked for
the first semester of the school and then get terminated. Not to mention,
I mean these sentences to hand down, Brian Peck should have done significant time
in prison for what he did. I mean. A rabbi was once sentenced
to twenty years for abusing children as young as six years old a few months
back in New York City, and at the trial he said that many rabbis
do this, but very few parents wished to bring them to try because they
love their religion. And this is why so many men, gay men,
pedophiles get away with this. Over and over and over. There were drake
Bells in the past under different names, many of whom I've mentioned, who
were represented by Jeff Ballard and they'll be Drake Bells in the future. Because
as long as there's fame and fortune to be had in Hollywood, parents will
push their kids to go for it. Because nowadays most parents are both working
two jobs to afford where they live. The economy sucks. Biden has turned
America upside down. And if you happen to have a good looking kid be
who has any kind of acting chops, sure get some headshots and send them
out there to Hollywood to see if he can get some work. Listen,
I've seen this up close. I've seen what struggling parents become once they have
a child who has some talent and gets hired for television shows. It really
fucks up a family, not to mention what it might do to that kid
who maybe hiding the truth of being assaulted for many, many years, and
rather than complain and speak about it or bring it to the forefront, they
turned to things that deaden the pain. That is why so many young actors
who were once child stars are no longer with us. Most of them don't
even get their stories out. They just walk away because it's too painful to
recall what they allowed to happen. To them and how no adults, including
their loving parents stepped in to stop it. Well, you can rest assured
that this podcast will always name names and always take down the pedophiles who have
just infested this business in Hollywood. And they are as hard to catch as
pedophiles. But when I got one of my grasp, I'm gonna step on
that fuck and squish them. So I urge you to go to my patreon,
the patreon dot com slash Famous a Bitch and here, chaust I have
a library of shows where all these pedophiles were documented. I've never been wrong,
never been sued. Knockwood. I don't even know why I'm knocking wood.
I've been knocking around so long. These people know I know the truth,
and thus far they've been too afraid to throw the first punch because they
know that I got stones to throw that are still in my pocket. So
best they walk away with that tail between their legs like the dogs they are.
I'm aj Benzon. That was your free show from March sixteen, twenty
twenty four. Talk to you next week, Thank you for listening. Fame
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