Drake Bell has been discovered after he was reported lacking on Thursday, April 13.
“We will verify legislation enforcement officers are involved and Mr. Bell is secure,” the Daytona Seashore Police Division wrote through their official Fb account hours after declaring the 36-year-old Nickelodeon alum lacking.
Earlier on Thursday, the DBPD issued a press release looking for the whereabouts of the Drake & Josh alum, whose “final identified location is probably the realm of Mainland Excessive Faculty on 4/12/2023 simply earlier than 9 p.m,” learn a publish on the legislation enforcement’s official Fb web page. Bell, who was “thought-about lacking and endangered,” was suggested to be “touring in a 2022 gray BMW” on the time.
Regardless of a profitable profession on Nickelodeon within the early 2000s, due to star activates The Amanda Present and his titular hit, Drake & Josh (alongside costar Josh Peck), it's Bell’s worrisome conduct off display that has made headlines lately.
In July 2021, the “Discovered a Manner” musician was sentenced to 2 years probation — and 200 hours of neighborhood service — after he pleaded responsible to 2 counts of tried endangering youngsters and disseminating matter dangerous to juveniles in 2017.
“I simply wish to say immediately that I settle for this declare as a result of my conduct was flawed,” Bell stated throughout his sentencing. “I’m sorry that the sufferer was harmed in any means, however that was clearly not my intention. I take this matter very severely, and once more I simply wish to apologize to her and anybody else who might have been affected by my actions.”
That very same month, the actor welcomed a child boy with then-wife Janet Von Schmeling. The 2 wed in 2018 and reportedly cut up in January. (Von Schmeling shared after which deleted an Instagram publish about their “separation” in November 2022.)
Whereas nonetheless on probation, Bell once more made headlines in December 2022 when Us Weekly broke the information that he was noticed showing to huff balloons.
“Drake pulled up within the driveway at his home [in Los Angeles] and began to inflate a pink balloon that was in his lap. He inhaled it … [until] the balloon was deflated,” an eyewitness completely instructed Us on the time. The Yours, Mine & Ours star repeated this motion “six or seven instances” over the course of half-hour, the bystander claimed. “Ultimately he bought out and went into his home, then he got here again out and bought his child out of the rear youngster seat and carried him in.”
The following day, the eyewitness noticed Bell inhaling an inflated blue balloon in his automotive.
“At one level, it appeared like he was about to go to sleep. His head began to drop and his eyes slowly closed,” the observer acknowledged. “However ultimately he bought himself collectively and drove off. The child was clearly within the automotive.”
American Dependancy Facilities’ chief medical officer Dr. Lawrence Weinstein completely instructed Us on the time that balloons “can … be a vessel” for inhalants, comparable to nitrous oxide (also referred to as laughing fuel). “Based mostly on knowledge … there was a rise of greater than 11 % within the quantity of people that have misused an inhalant previously 12 months,” the physician instructed Us, noting that inhalant abuse may cause cognitive impairment, coronary heart failure, sudden demise and extra. “[It] may be very harmful,” he emphasised.
Along with the struggles in his private life, Bell feuded with Peck, 36, who known as his former costar’s youngster endangerment case “upsetting” and “disappointing” in a press release to Selection on the time.
After Bell publicly slammed Peck in 2017 for not inviting him to his wedding ceremony to Paige O’Brien, the How I Met Your Father actor mentioned the incident on a March 2022 episode of the “BFFs” podcast.
“I get married that evening and I see these textual content messages from him like cursing me out and coming for me. On the evening of my wedding ceremony,” the Wackness star recalled, explaining that he made Bell apologize to his spouse on the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards. “It’s delusional as a result of it's like, ‘Bro, it's like we labored at Espresso Bean collectively after we have been 16. I'm sorry that I'm 31 now and I might need misplaced your quantity.’” Peck added that the duo’s “soiled little secret” was that they have been now not shut after filming the present — however he didn’t need followers to know that.
“I used to be completely satisfied to simply die with that secret that we made this factor that folks actually cherished however we weren’t that shut,” he stated on the time.
Bell, for his half, disagreed along with his former costar’s model of occasions.
“What bugged me about it was that he’s like, ‘Oh, we weren’t buddies,’” the musician stated later that month on his personal podcast with *Von Schmeling, “Drake & Janet,” saying the 2 had in reality been in contact through the years. “We’ve had our ups and downs. We’ve had instances after we wished to kill one another. We have been like brothers. I do know Josh and I’m nearer to Josh than I'm to personal brothers.”
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