This former tween/teen actor from Nick has been trying to intimidate people who call him out for his underage s.e.x.u.a.l. activities, including the recent criminal conviction.

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Drake Bell Offers Explanation Of Child Endangerment Guilty Plea, Urges Fans To “Come To Your Own Conclusions”

Former Nickelodeon star Drake Bell, who was sentenced to two years’ probation and community service in July after pleading guilty in charges stemming from his online conduct with an underage fan, says in a new Instagram video that he did not know the age of the fan at the time of their virtual communication and that “all conversation and communication stopped” when he became aware.

“I responded to a fan whose age I didn’t know,” the onetime Drake & Josh star says in his first non-courtroom public response to the case. “When I became aware of their age, all conversation and communication stopped.” He added that the fan “continued to come to shows and pay for meet and greets,” and that he did not know that the person he met on those occasions was the same one he had ceased communicating with online.

In the video, Bell states that “there were no sexual images, nothing physical” between himself and his accuser. “I was not charged with anything physical,” he says. “I was not charged with the disseminating of photographs or images or anything like that. This is strictly over text messages.”

Bell acknowledges in the video that his behavior was “reckless and irresponsible.”

In a contentious hearing conducted via Zoom by Ohio’s Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court in July, the now-19-year-old woman delivered an impact statement in which she accused the actor and musician of engaging in sexual contact with her during a backstage encounter in Cleveland when she was 15 years old, calling Bell “a monster and a danger to children.” – Source

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