The actor James Franco, known for participating in the films of ‘Spider-Man’ (2002) (2007) and winning a Golden Globe for best actor in ‘The Disaster Artist’, admitted that he had sexual relations with students and that he fought against a strong sex addiction.
This Wednesday, December 22, The Jess Cagle SiriusXM posted a few snippets of the podcast in which James Franco participated. During the program, the artist made several confessions.
(You may be interested: Billie Eilish confesses that she was addicted to pornography when she was 11 years old).
The accusations
In 2019, the actor had been accused for several of his ex student from the Studio 4 school in Los Angeles, a place founded by himself and where he has taught since 2014.
They alleged that Franco pushed them to perform more and more scenes sexual and holding in front of the camera.
According to local media, the artist reached an agreement and at the beginning of this year he had to pay 2.2 million dollars (almost 8 billion pesos).
The plaintiffs They accused not only Franco but his partners of “sexualizing their power as teachers and employers by missing out on the opportunity for roles in their projects.”
‘I admit I slept with students’: the confession
I guess at the time my thinking was: if it’s consensual, that’s fine
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In the aforementioned program, Franco said that he had sexual relations with students while teaching.
(Read on: ‘Sex and the City’ actor Chris Noth charged with sex crimes.)
“I admit I slept with students,” Franco told host Jess Cagle on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle podcast.
“I didn’t sleep with anyone in that particular class. But during the course of my teaching I slept with the students, and that was wrong, ”he added.
“I guess at that time my thought was: if it was consensual, it’s fine”. However, he claimed that the fact that this came to light made him feel uncomfortable.
“Of course, I knew that talking to other people, other teachers or whatever, is probably not a pleasant thing. At that time, he was not lucid, as I said, “recalled the actor.
‘Like any kind of drug there is never enough’: sex addiction
Success with women also became a great source of validation.
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The artist also said that his inappropriate sexual behavior It was due to a sex addiction, and he recounted that he had to go into recovery for alcohol abuse when he was 17 years old.
After this, the actor began to feel a strong need for, as he defines it, “validation”, so that sex was the only way out of his problems.
“Success with women It also became a great source of validation for me, ”Franco said.
He added: “The problem with that is, I’m sure you can guess, like any kind of way or anything, is that there is never enough.
The actor confessed that during this dark stage he hurt many people and could never be faithful to any of his girlfriends.
(Also read: ‘Sex And The City’ cast supports women who accuse Chris Noth).
“I went to meetings all that time. I even tried to sponsor other people. So, in my head it was like ‘Oh, I’m sober. I’m living a spiritual life. ‘ I am acting now in all these other ways. “
The man has been fighting her addiction since 2016.
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