United Kingdom, March 21 -- Josh Peck wishes he had been given "the opportunity to try something else" before finding early fame.

The 38-year-old actor joined the cast of 'The Amanda Show' on Nickelodeon in the late 1990s and then landed the sitcom 'Drake and Josh' for the network opposite Drake Bell but admitted that his child stardom mainly came as a result of "financial insecurity" within his single-parent family.

Speaking on the 'Tea Time with Raven and Miranda' podcast, he told the former Disney Channel star and her wife: "In a perfect world, I should have been allowed the opportunity to try something else. "People, when they ask 'Will your kids be in acting?'

"Well, you have to understand I had a single mom, I never met my pops, ...