melissa joanne hart She shows support for her ex-girlfriend nickelodeon Colleagues during the release of “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TVInvestigative Discovery's documentary series in which Drake Bell of “Drake & Josh” fame claims he was sexually abused by a Nickelodeon dialect coach when he was a teenager.
Hart rose to fame as a child star on Nickelodeon and is still best known for “.Clarissa explains everything” and ABC’s “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” Thursday Podcast “Meghan McCain joins the chat”, making her the latest Nickelodeon alum to speak out.
“No one comes to me and talks to me about these situations.” she told mccain. “And that's not to say anything about anyone's story. I absolutely trust them and believe them 100%. But in my experience, from 1989 to 1993 or 1994 I was in Orlando.”
Hart landed the lead role in “Clarissa” at age 14 and spent the next four years filming the sitcom while preparing for college. The actress told McCain that she had an “amazing” experience on set.
However, other former stars said their experiences with the channel were very different. Bell claimed on 'Quiet on Set': Nickelodeon dialect coach Brian Peck sexually abused He is currently working on “Drake & Josh'' in Los Angeles. Several network alumni have voiced support Bell's.
“I think there was probably a difference between Hollywood Nickelodeon and Orlando Nickelodeon,” Hart told McCain, referring to the channel's production studios in Florida.
“I had nothing but great experiences in Orlando,” Hart added. “We were in Florida, a right-to-work state, so we made the children work harder than the law required, but we had a lot of fun. That’s it.”
Peck was charged with child sexual abuse in 2004 and pleaded no contest, according to court documents obtained by the Daily Mail in 2015. He was reportedly found guilty of indecency with a child and oral copulation of a person under the age of 16 and sentenced to 16 months in prison.
Mr. Hart told Mr. McCain: “I don't know what other people are going through, and I'm not going to deny what anyone else has to say.'' “I've never heard of any of these people…and I have to say, personally, I've never heard of any Nickelodeon stars either.”
“I've been thinking about how to deal with it socially.” [media], but I haven't seen the documentary, so I think that's wrong,” she added. “I have to watch the documentary. That's what I think, but when I go to bed at night I'm like, 'Eh, 'Friend.'”
Hart told McCain that “not all eggs in the Nickelodeon basket are rotten” and that the Nickelodeon star “really took care of” her as a teenager. We had some good eggs,” he said.
“To be honest, some of them are still my best friends,” she said.
Last week, Bell criticized Nickelodeon's “vacuous” response to “Quiet on Set” after the company released a statement about its “commitment to promoting a safe and professional work environment.” Bell also admitted that her 2005 song “In the End” was about the abuse she suffered as a teenager.
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