I worked with him for 20 years and we didn't have one fight. "I just want to say, I absolutely love Seth Rogen. He also addressed his split with longtime friend and collaborator Seth Rogen, who severed ties with the actor back in May, adding that he had no plans to work with Franco again. I let my co-workers down on my movies," Franco told Cagle. I let my students down. I hosted the Oscars. His acting school Playhouse West Studio 4, which opened in 2014, closed permanently in 2017. I'm living a spiritual life.' Where on the side, I'm acting out now in all these other ways, and I couldn't see it," he explained.Īllegations of sexual misconduct were made against Franco in 2018 when several students at his former acting school accused him of intimidating them into sexual situations.Īccording to Variety, the claims led to a lawsuit, which Franco settled for USD 2,235,000 in June 2021. So in my head, it was like, 'Oh, I'm sober. The insidious part of that is that I stayed sober from alcohol all that time. We're all adults so'," he added.įranco further described his sex addiction, for which he is undergoing treatment, as a "powerful drug".īefore his current girlfriend, Izabel Pakzad, the actor said he "cheated on everyone". So I guess it just comes down to my criteria was like, 'If this is consensual, like, I think it's cool.
"At the time I was not clearheaded, as I've said. But yes, there were certain instances where, you know what, I was in a consensual thing with a student and I shouldn't have been," he said. "But like I said, it's not why I started the school and I wasn't the person that selected the people to be in the class. The 43-year-old actor also said there were times where he was convinced that it was ok to be in a "consensual" relationship with a student. "Over the course of my teaching, I did sleep with students, and that was wrong," Franco told Jess Cagle on his SiriusXM podcast this week.
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