James Franco’s first public troubles got here again in 2014, when he was accused of sending textual content messages to a younger girl who, on the time, was 17 years previous. In response to varied experiences, Franco despatched textual content messages to the lady, who was not but 18 — and Franco was 35 years previous. In response to a report in The Every day Mail, Lucy Clode, a Scottish fan of Franco, exchanged a number of direct messages with the “Spring Breakers” star the place he inquired as as to whether the younger girl had a boyfriend, the place in New York she was staying, and requested for her telephone quantity. Franco, at one level, despatched a photograph of himself to show that it was actually him.
Franco admitted to sending the messages on a 2014 episode of “Stay with Kelly and Michael” (by way of Leisure Weekly), telling the morning speak present hosts, “I am embarrassed, and I suppose I am only a mannequin of how social media is hard. It is a means folks meet one another in the present day, however what I’ve realized is you do not know who’s on the opposite finish. I used dangerous judgement and I realized my lesson.” Nonetheless, this was solely the start of Franco’s public issues.