Jerry Trainor Offers Advice to Josh Peck and Drake Bell Amid Feud

His opinion. Amid Josh PeckAnd Drake Bell‘s feud, their former Drake & JoshCostar Jerry Trainor admitted that he wasn’t sure what words of wisdom he could offer them — but attempted to do so, anyway.

“That’s not for me to say. Life is short, bury the hatchet, Whatever beef there is between anybody,” Trainor, 45, exclusively told Us Weekly during the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards on Saturday, April 9.

The iCarlyStar also spoke candidly about his experience working with Peck, 35 years old, during the Paramount+ reboot. “He’s fantastic. He’s another guy I got to see grow up because I was on Drake & JoshWith him. I played Crazy Steve. And when I quit the movie theater, he got the job at the movie theater,” Trainor shared with Use. “So it was like, it’s just very interesting to be on a show where all these people I worked with as kids are now grown-ups and they have kids and are married. It’s wild.”

Bell, 35, was first introduced to viewers by Peck, a comedic duo, when they were stepbrothers. Drake & Josh2004. The filming ended three years later and the couple moved on to other projects. It seemed that their friendship had stopped.

Drake and Josh Alum Jerry Trainor Addresses Josh Peck and Drake Bell Feud Bury the Hatchet

Drake Bell and Josh Peck on ‘Drake & Josh.’
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Bell made headlines in 2017 when he took to Twitter to criticize Peck for not inviting to his nuptials. “True colors have come out today,” the musician wrote in a since-deleted tweet amid the How I Met Your Father star’s wedding to Paige O’Brien. “Message is loud and clear. Ties have been officially severed. I’ll miss you brother.”

Later that year, the Fairly OddParentsStar revealed that the twosome had resorted to a peaceful resolution after meeting in person.

“We ran into each other at the VMAs. It was cool because I had called him, and we were discussing meeting up. And that’s always kind of nerve-racking. ‘What am I going to say? Where are we going? The ride over?’ So I was really happy that it happened organically,” Bell told UseSeptember 2017. “And he just kind of walked up behind me and I was like, ‘Oh. We have to deal with this right now.’ And so we were able to talk and hash it out and it’s all good.”

The songwriter stated that Peck had a stronger friendship because of the rift. “It’s interesting, we’re actually closer than we’ve been in a while … It’s totally great. It’s all love. We’re brothers, man,” he added at the time. “We’ve been working together for 18 years, maybe even longer now. So we’ve had our ups, we’ve had our downs, it’s like we’re real brothers. It’s kind of that sibling rivalry and sibling love and it’s the whole thing.”

Peck for his part, however, recently gave his side of the story regarding the VMAs meeting.

“I remember we were at the MTV Video Music Awards [in 2017]I see him there, and he sees my. I go up to him, and this might be the most Sopranos thing I have ever done, I looked at him and I go, ‘Go apologize to my wife right now,’” the Grandfathered alum recalled during an episode of the “BFFs” podcast last month. “He made a beeline for my wife and I see him do a whole 5-minute performance of an apology.”

The New York native also discussed his issue with Bell calling him the day before his wedding. “I am getting married that night and I see these text messages from him like cursing me out and coming for me. On the night of my wedding,” Peck detailed. “It’s delusional because it is like, ‘Bro, it is like we worked at Coffee Bean together when we were 16. I’m sorry to say that I’m 31 and may have lost your number.’”

For the comedian, Bell was “creating this narrative that just wasn’t true” when it came to their past. “The dirty little secret was that I knew that Drake and I didn’t stay in touch for ten years since we made the show. It was not necessary to tell anyone. I was happy to just die with that secret that we made this thing that people really loved but we weren’t that close,” Peck shared.

That same month, Bell’s wife, Janet Von Schmeling, shut down the YouTuber’s comments. “Anytime anybody asked about Josh I would say, ‘He is so nice. Oh, they are so great.’ I am done lying to everyone when Josh Peck is a total piece of s–t,” Schmeling said via her Instagram Stories in March. “I stay quiet until lies happen.”

In the lengthy video, Schmeling recalled her husband being approached in a friendly manner by Peck, adding, “We actually hung out after that multiple times. Since then, we have spoken multiple times. You’re a f–king liar, Josh.”

Hannah Kahn reporting

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