Josh Peckis addressing his past drama withDrake Bell— and revealing where the twoDrake & Joshcostars currently stand today.
During an appearance on theBFFs with Dave Portnoy and Josh Richardspodcast Wednesday, the 35-year-oldHow I Met Your Fatheractor was asked to play a “word association” game where he gave his opinion on various child stars. As Bell’s name was brought up, Peck said: “Oh, he’s fine. I wish him the best.”
“I get married to my wife and I marry this good Irish Catholic girl. … We have this small wedding,” Peck said. “The dirty little secret I guess was like, I knew that Drake and I didn’t stay in touch for the 10 years since we had made the show. But no one needed to know that. Like, I was happy to just die with that secret that we made this thing that people really love but maybe we weren’t that close. So I didn’t invite him to my wedding because I hadn’t really talked to him in many, many years.”
On the night of his wedding, Peck said Bell sent several text messages “cursing” and “coming” at him for not being invited. “It’s delusional because it is like, ‘Bro, it is like we worked at Coffee Bean together when we were 16. I am sorry that I am 31 now and I might have lost your number,’ " Peck said.
Peck then recalled how Bell went online to publicize his issues with him.
“He starts writing these tweets that immediately catch fire,” theHappy People Are Annoyingauthor said. “So then he like, leans in and goes on this press tour about how heartbroken he is and like, creating this narrative that just wasn’t true.”
Josh Peck (left) and Drake Bell.Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images; Paul Archuleta/Getty Images
Added Peck, “And here I am, I don’t care about me. It’s whatever. I signed up to be a public person, it is what it is. But here’s my wife, right, who’s getting torn down on the internet. I’m like, she’s private and she just got married. Can’t she just enjoy this?”
Months later, Peck chose to approach Bell about his actions when they ran into each at the 2017 Video Music Awards.
Peck, whoposted a photoat the time of the two hugging at the event, said that was “pretty much” the last time he had spoken to Bell.
“Drake & Joshis something I’ll be synonymous with forever and I’m proud of it,” he continued. “I want to like the guy that my name is attached to forever but unfortunately, it just sort of worked out the way that it did.”
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She continued, “Also, yea, Drake apologized to your wife because you asked him nicely to. We actually hung out after that. Multiple times. We talked multiple times since then. You’re a f—— liar. A f—— liar, Josh.”
Von Schmeling later apologized to Peck’s wife on Friday. But she said she’s “not sorry” to Peck, saying that it’s “really easy” to have his publicist not allow questions aboutDrake & Joshor Bell himself.
“We do it. Go watch interviews when Drake talks about his music,” she added on her Instagram Story. “We don’t talk about you and we don’t talk about the show because we tell them that we’re not talking about those things because we respect you.”
Bell was recentlysentenced to two years probationafter pleading guilty to attempted endangering children and disseminating matter harmful to juveniles. His victim had accused him of grooming her from the age of 12 before allegedly sexually abusing her at 15.
Reacting to the news, Peckrecentlytold PEOPLE it’s “disappointing.”
source: people.com
