DRAKE Bell had made a shocking claim about nearly dying in his last video before vanishing.
On Thursday morning, law enforcement in Florida issued a concerned plea for information about the former child actor’s whereabouts.
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Bell, 36, had been last seen on Wednesday night in a gray 2022 BMW SUV near the area of Mainland High School in Daytona Beach, the Daytona Beach Police Department said.
Authorities said they feared Bell was “missing and endangered.”
Bell was soon found unharmed in Orange County at around 11.30am, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to The U.S. Sun.
Little information surrounding the circumstances of Bell’s brief disappearance has been revealed as of yet.
However, the actor and musician made a shocking claim to fans in his latest video on YouTube weeks before the missing report was issued.
The 36-year-old told viewers that he almost died in a car crash during filming for the popular Nickelodeon television series Drake & Josh.
“I Almost Died on Drake & Josh!” the celebrity captioned the clip.
Bell appeared at the beginning of the video with just his guitar strung over his shoulder and went into gory details about the 2006 accident.
CLOSE CALL
The actor, 19 at the time, explained that he and a friend ventured to Zuma Beach to run and were on their way to Santa Monica for food when they decided to go home and change first.
Parked at a stoplight and turning left, a car hit him and his friend head-on going “full speed,” per Bell.
Bell claimed he remained conscious as the vehicle spun and hit a fence while he lost several teeth and suffered a broken jaw from slamming his face on the steering wheel of the car.
The actor even received a laceration to his chin, which he said he could stick his tongue through.
After being transported to the hospital via ambulance, Bell noted that first responders allegedly dropped him off at the wrong location.
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“Finally, some nurses came by and picked up my chart and looked at the clipboard and realized, ‘Oh, you’re at the wrong hospital,'” he recalled.
He was then transferred over to the correct location, where he allegedly had “7,000 stitches” placed in his chin by an on-call surgeon to sow up the laceration wound.
Later that day, he underwent surgery for his broken jaw, which was wired shut for some time.
Bell noted that almost the entire cast and crew from Drake & Josh showed up after the ordeal.
Either way, the video discussing the accident wasn’t the only intriguing content the actor made before vanishing.
‘GET AWAY’
As The U.S. Sun previously reported, Bell appeared on the Creativo podcast with YouTuber Roberto Mtz and discussed his entire career up until this point, along with his new album.
Bell even discussed the car accident once again, claiming that the injury still affects him to this day and ultimately impacted his future roles once Drake & Josh ended.
The actor also explained his frustrations with fame and even talked about separating himself from it.
“Sometimes you just wanna…sometimes you just wanna go away and get away from everything,” Bell said.
“That’s actually what a lot of my new album is about. It’s about being fed up with Hollywood and what it’s done to myself and people I see.”
Although there has been no confirmation of these comments being related to Bell’s recent disappearance, the actor has dealt with a share of difficult situations in his career.
He has come into trouble with the law on attempted child endangerment and pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct in July 2021.
After being found on Thursday, Bell will now undergo a mental health evaluation as recommended by Orange County deputies.
This comes despite claims that the actor appeared fine on Tuesday when he was spotted at Seaworld in Orlando with his son, Jeremy, according to what a witness told TMZ.
They allegedly approached Bell to tell him they were a fan and said the actor responded in a “nice and soft-spoken manner.”
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