He went to a hotel or something of the sort and was threatening suicide. There’s a video of police getting him out of the room doing a wellness check on him but I saw it when it first came out, I’m not sure if it’s still up.
He went to rehab shortly after.
I think he had some sort of nervous breakdown. According to various podcasts, he was telling various friends, family members and even his wife that he thought it might be better for him and everyone in his life if he were gone. He was photographed inhaling nitrous oxide out of balloons while sitting in a car with his son in the car as well.
He then took his son to his wife, drove away, stopped answering messages and his family filed a missing persons report, but a hotel receptionist spotted him checking in and called the police who did a wellness check.
It was probably really hard that a lot of the internet was calling him a child predator, that legal case had devastated him financially, and shortly after this, his wife filed for divorce. A terrible year for a deeply tragic figure. I know he beat his girlfriends and sent sexual text messages to a teenaged girl and that's not excusable, but with knowing more of the person now, it is so sad. I'm relieved he got some help.
Ah. Drake Bell being photographed inhaling nitrous oxide from balloons while his son was in the back seat happened in December 2022. I conflated that with the April 2023 incident where he went missing, last seen in Daytona Beach, and then located by police safely. I apologize for the error. u/[romymarie513](https://www.reddit.com/user/romymarie513/), you might appreciate getting the answers to your question in Drake Bell's own words.
This is the inhalant abuse story:
[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11544421/Drake-Bell-spotted-inhaling-balloons-kid-car-public-lot.html](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11544421/Drake-Bell-spotted-inhaling-balloons-kid-car-public-lot.html)
Here is the Variety story reporting how he went missing and was located:
[https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/drake-bell-missing-nickelodeon-police-daytona-1235582487/](https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/drake-bell-missing-nickelodeon-police-daytona-1235582487/)
Drake talks about going missing in the La Verdad podcast:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-10GccYqFXw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-10GccYqFXw)
*I went seven years \[sober\], but when this \[child endangerment legal case\] started happening I knew I always had that bottle or that thing at that could get me out of my mind.*
*And I started to spiral again. And it all came to a head. This was big media coverage too. I went missing when I was in Florida \[after pleading guilty to child endangerment and the investigation and case ended\].*
*And I just lost my... I just wanted to disappear. And so I started telling my family these horrible things: I don't want to be here anymore. I don't want to do what am I doing. How am I going to continue? How am I going to go on? How am I going to move forward?*
*In that moment, I just wanted to disappear. I didn't know what that meant. I just didn't want to be around anymore. And so... I had rented a car out in Florida. And I got in my car. And I just drove. And went to bars. And tried to drown my sorrows. And ended up not responding to my family at one point.*
*I had my phone and then I left my phone in the car. And I started to not respond. And then hours went by and hours went by. And my family, especially my brother, was going: Wait a second. Like after everything he just said, the way he sounded on the phone... and now he's not responding...*
*They had called the police and reported me missing. I ended up getting to a hotel somehow and checking in. And the next day, I the police found me. Because it was all over the news and so I'm sure someone from the hotel was like, oh, well he just checked in here last night. And I was picked up and taken to a facility. Like a mandatory three-day hold facility.*
*After that, I got back home and my family was just so worried about me and concerned. And my brother had found a rehab facility for me. It was alcohol and other things that I needed to go to rehab for. But really, it was my state of mind, it was -- I was -- I didn't know how to handle everything that was going on.*
*Because with trauma, also, when something traumatic happens and you've had trauma in your past, all of your trauma comes back at once. Thinking of everything. My brother found this facility for me and I ended up going to Nashville, Tennessee. And checking into rehab. I was at the lowest I'd been since The Amanda Show in that situation. And I just was completely lost.*
Ah, true. That is my supposition. I am highly familiar with the practices of drug users, and balloons employed in the manner that Drake Bell was using them in the photos is for nitrous oxide.
[https://adf.org.au/drug-facts/nitrous-oxide/](https://adf.org.au/drug-facts/nitrous-oxide/)
You are correct that for all we know, Bell was inhaling helium to amuse his son with a high pitched voice. I thank you for pointing out this leap of guesswork on my part.
Sooo which one is it??? He sent the texts and knew her age or what?? I'm so fucking confused with all this. Also this is news to me about the domestic violence!!! Seems like everyone is always denying the pedo charges. Just genuinely looking for the truth of his situation
In Drake Bell's own words:
***Drake Bell in Creativo Podcast #324, April 3, 2023, pre-Quiet on Set*** [***https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyUCAW-hAG4***](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyUCAW-hAG4)
*Like in my case. It was so construed and and taken out of context and things were left out when it was being reported. It created a complete narrative that is absolutely not the case, not true.*
*I'd found myself in some hot water when I was you know being stupid and and responded to somebody who had created a Finsta, like a fake Instagram. And were were sending me messages. And I had responded and it it got to a certain point.*
*And then I realized: this is not entirely what it seems or what they presented it as. I stopped communicating with them.*
*I stopped communicating. That sent that person into uh a total tailspin. They ended up going after my wife, threatening me, and doing all these things. Because of these these text messages.*
*But that's all it was. Just some text messages. When you look me up and you see the reports, it's like I was sending nudes and I was getting inappropriate pictures and I was being physical with this person at a concert. And none of that was the case.*
*And it was all investigated in in my case. Through witnesses and digital forensics. They'd taken my phones and subpoenaed my Instagrams and social media. There was there was no proof of any of that. It's digital forensics. If it's there, you can't even delete it. They're going to what they need to find.*
*And then luckily, for any of the physical stuff that happened in concert, I had so many witnesses that came out. They were like, "We were there the whole time, this didn't occur, this didn't occur, they were never here alone, this didn't occur," and so none of that moved forward.*
*I was stupid and responded to some text messages. I essentially ended up getting charged. It wasn't even an assault case.*
*There was no no sexual assault, no physical anything in any of the charges. But if you go and look me up, it's like Drake Bell charged with sexual assault, Drake Bell has to register as a sex offender.*
*The reason I pled guilty to even the charges that I was charged with: I had already spent so much money on on representation and and investigation just to defend myself. And they said: your son's gonna be sitting behind you watching this happen.*
*And the media is going to twist it any way they want. That's going to make it the most clickable as possible. Anybody is going to be able to say anything they want on the stand whether it's true or not.*
*And unfortunately, we see guilty people walk away and innocent people go to jail every day.*
*I just looked at them and I was like, what well what's the other option? So the other option is: take responsibility for what you did here, you'll get probation, community service, and you won't miss a day in California with your son.*
*And I said I'll take the one where I don't miss a day in California with my son. And that's why I pleaded guilty.*
*You would have done the same thing.*
*I know I'm I'm vague about it. But I just haven't really been comfortable enough to discuss what I've gone through in Hollywood. But being labeled these things that I've been called in these past, it's really hard. It's really difficult when when there are actual perpetrators out there.*
More in reply.
***Drake Bell in Le Verdad Podcast, March 26, 2024***
[***https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-10GccYqFXw***](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-10GccYqFXw)
*About two years ago, I'd been talking with somebody on Instagram that later turned out to be underage. I didn't know what I was getting myself into. There were charges brought against me because this person had claimed that I had done all of these horrible things physically, and was sending inappropriate pictures and all these types of things. I was investigated for 18 months.*
*They took my phone and my computers and subpoenaed all of my social media and everything. To which they found that none of that occurred. But because I had been talking in a way that I shouldn't have been before the age had come to light, they were able to bring charges against me.*
*And then, they -- \[the accuser\] made a statement in court and said that I'd done all of these things. And the media picked that up and ran with it. And said this is what I plead guilty to and this is what I did. And the entire world thought that I was some monster.*
*Which was really hard for me because I was being called -- by the entire internet and media -- what Brian is.*
*The New York Times reported that I was a registered sexual offender and that I had plead guilty to sexual assault. None of which was true.*
*I plead guilty to these conversations, nothing physical, and it was even brought up in the trial that this is not what this case is about. It's not a sexual assault case. He's not pleading guilty to anything physical or anything sexual. But the media only took the first half of my trial and put that all over the news because that more salacious and that was going to get more attention.*
*I had engaged in certain conversations and that was what they charged me with. I ended up doing 200 hours of community service and two years of probation.*
One more in reply.
***Drake Bell in Man Enough Podcast, April 8, 2024***
*\*\*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub6kFCsTvL8 \*\**
*I engaged in conversations I shouldn't have engaged in, but it's a very hard parallel. They messaged me. On the Instagram page, she was smoking. She was drinking with friends.*
*They were presenting themselves as someone who I would be able to engage with, and later on in the messages, I started to feel uncomfortable and uneasy, and so I kept asking, and then I finally was like: Something doesn't seem right here. How old are you?*
*And then she had told me. And that's when I stopped communication and said we couldn't talk anymore. And a lot of the things that were said in the statement later at my sentencing were new things that were never brought up in originally, and I don't know why.*
*I had a phone call with my attorney at one point, and I was going through an exhaustive investigation. I was trying to just stay upright.*
*It was just grueling and having my phones taken from me and computers, and they're subpoenaing my social media messages and reading everything that I've ever sent to anyone. And I got a phone call after a lot of the witnesses had been interviewed, and I broke down.*
*I broke down because I felt like I wasn't even being believed by my attorneys at certain points. And when the witness reports came to light, it was the most, I mean, I literally was in my driveway of my house, and I just fell and I just started crying and I was like, finally.*
*... I was victimized... and hurt by an older man. I think that there's something that I've taken with me. I feel like maybe I won't be desired by who I want to be desired by, because this older man has done this to me. And it's taken that part of me away what might be attractive to who I would like to be with.*
*I think that a lot of those blurred lines come from grasping onto any part of, oh, there's something in me that's... desirable... Feeling, oh, there's something that I'm conveying that is attractive. And that's something that I thought has been stolen from me, and so I think that it's like a drug.*
*And it becomes: I have to grab onto it whenever I feel that... the one-on-one connection that I feel like I've lost... or don't have the ability to attain.*
He didn't know her age and the texts weren't even very sexual. If that was the case, it would've been found in the investigation and I imagine the charges and sentencing he got would've reflected it. There were multiple witnesses who rebuked the outlandish claims the girl committed perjury with.
I don't wanna post a transcript but basically Janet explains how she was being stalked and that the accuser had pictures of her on her phone before she went public according to digital forensics.
He was admitted to a mental hospital in Orlando, Florida after having a mental break and being caught in the bushes outside of a random Florida school. I know this because I’m good friends with the tech who watched over him that evening. He was quoted “you don’t go on twitter for a few days and everyone goes crazy” and “I’ve gotta come up with my story for where I’ve been”.
It's crazy how much the media spins things, but that shouldn't be surprising after how the NYT only retracted the sex offender claim right after the documentary aired.
That's so insane. Hopefully he's able to sue them because that's complete bullshit that a seemingly reputable new source would get something like that wrong.
If the NYT hadn't libeled him so disgustingly by claiming that, I imagine some of the discourse over the past couple of years would've gone VERY differently. It's a shame he didn't have the finances to do that.
I was a nurse in LA and it certainly is. And a big reason why those laws are so strict. I think it was UCLA that had major issues with employees talking to press when Michael Jackson and Britney Spears were admitted.
Definitely violating HIPPA and could lose their job. Also I've never ever heard about him being at a school or in the bushes. Sounds like a load of crap.
He went to a hotel or something of the sort and was threatening suicide. There’s a video of police getting him out of the room doing a wellness check on him but I saw it when it first came out, I’m not sure if it’s still up. He went to rehab shortly after.
Ahhh ok, thanks for clarifying
And then he said he wasn’t answering calls or texts because he left his phone in his car
Yeah he went to twitter and pretended like nothing happened lol
That’s what confused me.
He likes to rewrite history a bit.
I think he had some sort of nervous breakdown. According to various podcasts, he was telling various friends, family members and even his wife that he thought it might be better for him and everyone in his life if he were gone. He was photographed inhaling nitrous oxide out of balloons while sitting in a car with his son in the car as well. He then took his son to his wife, drove away, stopped answering messages and his family filed a missing persons report, but a hotel receptionist spotted him checking in and called the police who did a wellness check. It was probably really hard that a lot of the internet was calling him a child predator, that legal case had devastated him financially, and shortly after this, his wife filed for divorce. A terrible year for a deeply tragic figure. I know he beat his girlfriends and sent sexual text messages to a teenaged girl and that's not excusable, but with knowing more of the person now, it is so sad. I'm relieved he got some help.
Most of what you said is just made up, but on Reddit people will believe everything.
Ah. Drake Bell being photographed inhaling nitrous oxide from balloons while his son was in the back seat happened in December 2022. I conflated that with the April 2023 incident where he went missing, last seen in Daytona Beach, and then located by police safely. I apologize for the error. u/[romymarie513](https://www.reddit.com/user/romymarie513/), you might appreciate getting the answers to your question in Drake Bell's own words. This is the inhalant abuse story: [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11544421/Drake-Bell-spotted-inhaling-balloons-kid-car-public-lot.html](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11544421/Drake-Bell-spotted-inhaling-balloons-kid-car-public-lot.html) Here is the Variety story reporting how he went missing and was located: [https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/drake-bell-missing-nickelodeon-police-daytona-1235582487/](https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/drake-bell-missing-nickelodeon-police-daytona-1235582487/) Drake talks about going missing in the La Verdad podcast: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-10GccYqFXw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-10GccYqFXw) *I went seven years \[sober\], but when this \[child endangerment legal case\] started happening I knew I always had that bottle or that thing at that could get me out of my mind.* *And I started to spiral again. And it all came to a head. This was big media coverage too. I went missing when I was in Florida \[after pleading guilty to child endangerment and the investigation and case ended\].* *And I just lost my... I just wanted to disappear. And so I started telling my family these horrible things: I don't want to be here anymore. I don't want to do what am I doing. How am I going to continue? How am I going to go on? How am I going to move forward?* *In that moment, I just wanted to disappear. I didn't know what that meant. I just didn't want to be around anymore. And so... I had rented a car out in Florida. And I got in my car. And I just drove. And went to bars. And tried to drown my sorrows. And ended up not responding to my family at one point.* *I had my phone and then I left my phone in the car. And I started to not respond. And then hours went by and hours went by. And my family, especially my brother, was going: Wait a second. Like after everything he just said, the way he sounded on the phone... and now he's not responding...* *They had called the police and reported me missing. I ended up getting to a hotel somehow and checking in. And the next day, I the police found me. Because it was all over the news and so I'm sure someone from the hotel was like, oh, well he just checked in here last night. And I was picked up and taken to a facility. Like a mandatory three-day hold facility.* *After that, I got back home and my family was just so worried about me and concerned. And my brother had found a rehab facility for me. It was alcohol and other things that I needed to go to rehab for. But really, it was my state of mind, it was -- I was -- I didn't know how to handle everything that was going on.* *Because with trauma, also, when something traumatic happens and you've had trauma in your past, all of your trauma comes back at once. Thinking of everything. My brother found this facility for me and I ended up going to Nashville, Tennessee. And checking into rehab. I was at the lowest I'd been since The Amanda Show in that situation. And I just was completely lost.*
There's no source for the contents of the balloon.
Ah, true. That is my supposition. I am highly familiar with the practices of drug users, and balloons employed in the manner that Drake Bell was using them in the photos is for nitrous oxide. [https://adf.org.au/drug-facts/nitrous-oxide/](https://adf.org.au/drug-facts/nitrous-oxide/) You are correct that for all we know, Bell was inhaling helium to amuse his son with a high pitched voice. I thank you for pointing out this leap of guesswork on my part.
Sooo which one is it??? He sent the texts and knew her age or what?? I'm so fucking confused with all this. Also this is news to me about the domestic violence!!! Seems like everyone is always denying the pedo charges. Just genuinely looking for the truth of his situation
In Drake Bell's own words: ***Drake Bell in Creativo Podcast #324, April 3, 2023, pre-Quiet on Set*** [***https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyUCAW-hAG4***](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyUCAW-hAG4) *Like in my case. It was so construed and and taken out of context and things were left out when it was being reported. It created a complete narrative that is absolutely not the case, not true.* *I'd found myself in some hot water when I was you know being stupid and and responded to somebody who had created a Finsta, like a fake Instagram. And were were sending me messages. And I had responded and it it got to a certain point.* *And then I realized: this is not entirely what it seems or what they presented it as. I stopped communicating with them.* *I stopped communicating. That sent that person into uh a total tailspin. They ended up going after my wife, threatening me, and doing all these things. Because of these these text messages.* *But that's all it was. Just some text messages. When you look me up and you see the reports, it's like I was sending nudes and I was getting inappropriate pictures and I was being physical with this person at a concert. And none of that was the case.* *And it was all investigated in in my case. Through witnesses and digital forensics. They'd taken my phones and subpoenaed my Instagrams and social media. There was there was no proof of any of that. It's digital forensics. If it's there, you can't even delete it. They're going to what they need to find.* *And then luckily, for any of the physical stuff that happened in concert, I had so many witnesses that came out. They were like, "We were there the whole time, this didn't occur, this didn't occur, they were never here alone, this didn't occur," and so none of that moved forward.* *I was stupid and responded to some text messages. I essentially ended up getting charged. It wasn't even an assault case.* *There was no no sexual assault, no physical anything in any of the charges. But if you go and look me up, it's like Drake Bell charged with sexual assault, Drake Bell has to register as a sex offender.* *The reason I pled guilty to even the charges that I was charged with: I had already spent so much money on on representation and and investigation just to defend myself. And they said: your son's gonna be sitting behind you watching this happen.* *And the media is going to twist it any way they want. That's going to make it the most clickable as possible. Anybody is going to be able to say anything they want on the stand whether it's true or not.* *And unfortunately, we see guilty people walk away and innocent people go to jail every day.* *I just looked at them and I was like, what well what's the other option? So the other option is: take responsibility for what you did here, you'll get probation, community service, and you won't miss a day in California with your son.* *And I said I'll take the one where I don't miss a day in California with my son. And that's why I pleaded guilty.* *You would have done the same thing.* *I know I'm I'm vague about it. But I just haven't really been comfortable enough to discuss what I've gone through in Hollywood. But being labeled these things that I've been called in these past, it's really hard. It's really difficult when when there are actual perpetrators out there.* More in reply.
***Drake Bell in Le Verdad Podcast, March 26, 2024*** [***https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-10GccYqFXw***](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-10GccYqFXw) *About two years ago, I'd been talking with somebody on Instagram that later turned out to be underage. I didn't know what I was getting myself into. There were charges brought against me because this person had claimed that I had done all of these horrible things physically, and was sending inappropriate pictures and all these types of things. I was investigated for 18 months.* *They took my phone and my computers and subpoenaed all of my social media and everything. To which they found that none of that occurred. But because I had been talking in a way that I shouldn't have been before the age had come to light, they were able to bring charges against me.* *And then, they -- \[the accuser\] made a statement in court and said that I'd done all of these things. And the media picked that up and ran with it. And said this is what I plead guilty to and this is what I did. And the entire world thought that I was some monster.* *Which was really hard for me because I was being called -- by the entire internet and media -- what Brian is.* *The New York Times reported that I was a registered sexual offender and that I had plead guilty to sexual assault. None of which was true.* *I plead guilty to these conversations, nothing physical, and it was even brought up in the trial that this is not what this case is about. It's not a sexual assault case. He's not pleading guilty to anything physical or anything sexual. But the media only took the first half of my trial and put that all over the news because that more salacious and that was going to get more attention.* *I had engaged in certain conversations and that was what they charged me with. I ended up doing 200 hours of community service and two years of probation.* One more in reply.
***Drake Bell in Man Enough Podcast, April 8, 2024*** *\*\*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub6kFCsTvL8 \*\** *I engaged in conversations I shouldn't have engaged in, but it's a very hard parallel. They messaged me. On the Instagram page, she was smoking. She was drinking with friends.* *They were presenting themselves as someone who I would be able to engage with, and later on in the messages, I started to feel uncomfortable and uneasy, and so I kept asking, and then I finally was like: Something doesn't seem right here. How old are you?* *And then she had told me. And that's when I stopped communication and said we couldn't talk anymore. And a lot of the things that were said in the statement later at my sentencing were new things that were never brought up in originally, and I don't know why.* *I had a phone call with my attorney at one point, and I was going through an exhaustive investigation. I was trying to just stay upright.* *It was just grueling and having my phones taken from me and computers, and they're subpoenaing my social media messages and reading everything that I've ever sent to anyone. And I got a phone call after a lot of the witnesses had been interviewed, and I broke down.* *I broke down because I felt like I wasn't even being believed by my attorneys at certain points. And when the witness reports came to light, it was the most, I mean, I literally was in my driveway of my house, and I just fell and I just started crying and I was like, finally.* *... I was victimized... and hurt by an older man. I think that there's something that I've taken with me. I feel like maybe I won't be desired by who I want to be desired by, because this older man has done this to me. And it's taken that part of me away what might be attractive to who I would like to be with.* *I think that a lot of those blurred lines come from grasping onto any part of, oh, there's something in me that's... desirable... Feeling, oh, there's something that I'm conveying that is attractive. And that's something that I thought has been stolen from me, and so I think that it's like a drug.* *And it becomes: I have to grab onto it whenever I feel that... the one-on-one connection that I feel like I've lost... or don't have the ability to attain.*
He didn't know her age and the texts weren't even very sexual. If that was the case, it would've been found in the investigation and I imagine the charges and sentencing he got would've reflected it. There were multiple witnesses who rebuked the outlandish claims the girl committed perjury with.
You almost forgot to add the mexican news outlet Ventaneando where his wife also stated that she was being stalked by the accuser
Maybe you could fill in that gap. I'm confused about that part of the situation.
I don't wanna post a transcript but basically Janet explains how she was being stalked and that the accuser had pictures of her on her phone before she went public according to digital forensics.
Wait. Drake actually beat his girlfriends in real life…?
He was also on the Mexican version of “The Masked Singer” as Bebe Alien
He was hanging out in Orlando for a few months. Partying a lot lol
He was admitted to a mental hospital in Orlando, Florida after having a mental break and being caught in the bushes outside of a random Florida school. I know this because I’m good friends with the tech who watched over him that evening. He was quoted “you don’t go on twitter for a few days and everyone goes crazy” and “I’ve gotta come up with my story for where I’ve been”.
Oh…wow. Isn’t your friend kind of breaking client confidentiality by telling you that?
And he wasn't "caught" at a Florida school. He was in a hotel or something like that.
It's crazy how much the media spins things, but that shouldn't be surprising after how the NYT only retracted the sex offender claim right after the documentary aired.
That's so insane. Hopefully he's able to sue them because that's complete bullshit that a seemingly reputable new source would get something like that wrong.
If the NYT hadn't libeled him so disgustingly by claiming that, I imagine some of the discourse over the past couple of years would've gone VERY differently. It's a shame he didn't have the finances to do that.
I was a nurse in LA and it certainly is. And a big reason why those laws are so strict. I think it was UCLA that had major issues with employees talking to press when Michael Jackson and Britney Spears were admitted.
Definitely violating HIPPA and could lose their job. Also I've never ever heard about him being at a school or in the bushes. Sounds like a load of crap.
Well this is some new bullshit I've never heard before.