United Kingdom, April 11 -- Drake Bell felt like a "rat in a cage" before he went to rehab.

The 38-year-old actor shot to fame as a child on Nickelodeon but was subjected to abuse at the hands of dialect coach Brian Peck during that time, and after opening up about the ordeal publicly last year, he reluctantly took himself off to a rehabilitation clinic for the sake of his mental health.

Speaking on 'The Good Guys' podcast, he told his former 'Drake and Josh' co-star Josh Peck: "I went to rehab in Nashville. I think it was just exhaustion.

"And just being...nowhere else to turn, feeling like a rat in a cage. Feeling like I couldn't do it anymore. Everything was public, man, it was just crazy.

"It got hard. I'd just had my son. Things ...