Nearly four years after facing allegations of sexual misconduct, James Franco has finally spoken publicly about his past. In his first interview since the Los Angeles Times published a damning exposé in 2018 about the actor and director’s allegedly sexually exploitative behavior as an acting and film teacher (leading to a class-action lawsuit in 2019), the actor spoke with SiriusXM’s Jess Cagle about the accusations he’s faced and the ways he used fame to “lure” people.
“Look, I’ll admit I did sleep with students,” said Franco, who taught at Studio 4, a now defunct film school he founded which served as the primary setting of the accusations in the Times story and the lawsuit. “Over the course of my teaching I did sleep with students, and that was wrong.”
