Drake & Josh Star Josh Peck Opens Up About Ending His Food And Drug Addictions -- And Dropping Over 100 Lbs

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Josh Peck was almost a tragic cliché — and he knows it! And now he’s opening up about it like never before.

Speaking to People on Wednesday about his upcoming memoir Happy People Are Annoying, the Nickelodeon alum explained he has an addictive personality that led him to first an addiction to food — and then to drugs. Related: Cameron Diaz Reveals After Leaving Hollywood She QUIT Beauty Products & ‘Never’ Washes Her Face! He came to realize: Looking back at the beginning of his days as a child star, doing standup comedy that led him to Amanda Bynes‘ sketch comedy hit The Amanda Show, he says he was teased mercilessly about his weight: Sadly it’s a story we’ve heard take some much darker turns than TV stardom.

But even then it took a real awakening to fix the eating. Josh peaked, as he’s revealed on his YouTube channel, at 300 lbs at his unhealthiest.

As fans of the Drake and Josh know — as the struggle with the weight loss was an all too public one — he did eventually shed the weight, 127 lbs to be exact.