Actor gives first extended comments about accusations that came nearly four years ago
James Franco spoke on The Jess Cagle Podcast.Last modified on Thu 23 Dec 2021 02.45 GMT
In excerpts from The Jess Cagle Podcast made public on Wednesday, Franco, 43, said that while teaching, he “did sleep with students, and that was wrong”. He said he had not started the school to lure women for sexual purposes. The remarks were Franco’s first extended comments about accusations leveled against him nearly four years ago when the Los Angeles Times reported that five women hadagainst the actor, accusing him of exploiting aspiring actors at his now defunct school and duping young women into shooting explicit sex scenes.
“It’s such a powerful drug,” he said. “I got hooked on it for 20 more years. The insidious part of that is that I stayed sober from alcohol all that time.”
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