Drake Bell spoke to Rider Strong after criticizing his support letter for convicted child molester Brian Peck

“We are all healing together,” the “Drake & Josh” star said.

Drake Bell and Rider Strong are making amends.

The Drake & Josh star said he’s spoken to the Boy Meets World actor after criticizing his decision to write a letter of support in the early 2000s for convicted child molester Brian Peck, who spent time in prison for sexually assaulting Bell as a teenager.

“I just had the most amazing conversation with @RiderStrong,” Bell posted on social media Friday. “We are all healing together. I have nothing but love and forgiveness for him.”

The producers for the Investigation Discovery docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV petitioned to unseal documents related to Bell’s John Doe abuse case, revealing 41 letters of support for the former Nickelodeon dialogue coach that were written by various prominent Hollywood figures, including Strong, his Boy Meets World costar Will Friedle , James Marsden, Taran Killam, and Growing Pains stars Alan Thicke and Joanna Kerns.

Shortly before the premiere of Quiet on Set, Strong and Friedle discussed their relationship with Peck on their podcast Pod Meets World.

"He didn’t say that nothing had happened," Strong said on the show. "So by the time we heard about this case and knew anything about it, it was always in the context of, 'I did this thing. I am guilty. I am going to take whatever punishment the government determines, but I’m a victim of jailbait. There was this hot guy. I just did this thing, and he’s underage.' And we bought that storyline. I never heard about the other things because, back then, you couldn’t Google to find out what people were being charged with."

After Quiet on Set premiered, Bell said he hadn’t received a private apology from any of the people who supported Peck in court, and cast doubt on those who believed his abuser’s accounts.

“To sit there and say, ‘Yes, I did this, but it’s not how they’re painting it’ — I mean, I can’t imagine framing it in a way where 41 people, adults, say, ‘Oh, well that totally makes sense, how you’re telling me, that makes sense,’” Bell said on The Sarah Fraser Show.

Bell had also previously called out Strong and Friedle on Instagram for supporting Peck.

"RIDER WAS 24 years old when he wrote the letter and was told by Brian what he did. He wrote the letter anyway,” Bell commented on Zoey 101 star Alexa Nikolas’ Instagram post.

In another now-deleted comment (which Nikolas shared as a screenshot), Bell speculated on why Strong and Friedle recorded the podcast in the first place. “This is because they were told [their] letters are going to be made public,” he wrote. “Everyone thought the letters would be sealed forever and no one would ever see them. This is their publicist telling them how to get ahead of the story.”

Kerns did provide a follow-up statement on the matter that was shown in Quiet on Set. “I have now learned that my letter of support was based on complete misinformation," she said. "Knowing what I know now, I never would have written the letter.”

Additionally, Rich and Beth Correll, who were crew members on The Amanda Show and later worked with Peck again on The Suite Life With Zack and Cody after he was released from prison, made a public apology to Bell.

“We extend our deepest apologies to Drake Bell and his family, and we deeply regret our decision many years ago to request leniency for someone who we later learned had committed a horrible crime and caused so much pain and trauma to Drake and others," the Corrells said in a statement. "If we had known the truth at the time the letters were written, we never would have written them. There are no words to express how awful we feel for being on the wrong side of a horrific situation and the trauma it caused you, Drake. We are devastated that we unwittingly supported the unsupportable."

If you or someone you know has been a victim of sexual abuse, text "STRENGTH" to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 to be connected to a certified crisis counselor.

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