NickelodeonDrake Bell and Josh Peck have been opening up about their time on Nickelodeon, the Brian Peck court case, and their friendship, with the new episode turning focus to the wedding fallout in 2017. Warning: some may find this content distressing.
Last year, Drake appeared in ID’s docu-series Quiet on Set, where he shared for the first time that he was the previously unnamed victim of Brian Peck (no relation to Josh), a sex offender and former Nickelodeon dialogue coach.
This is one of many topics covered in the latest installment of Josh and Ben Soffer’s Good Guys podcast. In the first episode, which dropped on Tuesday (March 25), the Drake & Josh stars reflected on how they drifted apart, part of the reason being that Drake was dealing with these issues.
Years later, there were rumors that the pair had fallen out, culminating in a series of now-deleted tweets in which Drake slammed the fact that he wasn’t invited to Josh’s wedding to Paige O’Brien in June 2017.
Josh Peck and Drake Bell reflect on wedding tweets in new podcast
In Part 2 of the podcast, Josh reveals that the wedding tweets “blew everything up” but it was also the starting point for him and Drake to heal and reconnect as friends.
X/TwitterAt the time, Drake wrote on X/Twitter, “When you’re not invited to the wedding the message is clear.” A few minutes later, he said, “True colors have come out today. Message is loud and clear. Ties are officially cut. I’ll miss you brotha.”
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Speaking about this on the latest Good Guys episode, which dropped today (March 27), Josh says the wedding “blew everything up but also was the first step in us coming back together,” which Drake agrees with.
“I think about my wedding, and the only person that was from the show was Dan [Schneider] because my mom was friends with his wife. Thanks mom,” Josh says.
“It’s not an indictment of one particular person. I love you, I love Miranda [Cosgrove]. There’s so many people that I probably would now, at 38, have wanted there. But at 30, I just wanted to leave it all behind. ‘Cause it felt like it didn’t serve me anymore.
“And the realization I had was when you wrote that stuff during my wedding about our friendship and all these things, and our love and our history, I think you were living in the world of where our relationship should have been.
“I was too much living in the past of when our relationship wasn’t great. And it was really somewhere in the middle. But I think that was revealed to me and why we had so much of that.
“Because over those 10 years, we saw each other once a year, you know? And so when this stuff was going on, I was like, ‘What does he mean?’ But now I can see with all this time and everything that’s been revealed, it’s like, ‘Yeah, we should’ve been closer.’”
Drake agrees with this sentiment, with both stars revealing that they felt the other was too cool for them while they were shooting for Drake & Josh, which compounded the personal issues they were dealing with at that time.
“There were a lot of times, when we were hanging out at Michael’s a lot, I always felt like, ‘Man, we should be closer,’” says Drake.
“And it’s funny that you say, ‘I always used to see you… I always felt like you were so cool.’ It’s like, dude, I honestly would think the same thing. I’m like, ‘Ah, I’m not cool enough to hang out with Josh. I’m not funny enough.’
“We were doing the same sh*t. We really should’ve been like, ‘Bro, wanna go grab some pizza and play some video games?’”
Now, it’s all water under the bridge, and the pair are closer than ever. In the first episode of the podcast, Josh shared his reaction to Quiet on Set, saying he now realizes what Drake was going through at that time.
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