James Franco admitted to sleeping with students of his acting school and having a sex addiction in a recent interview with The Jess Cagle Podcast.
The Disaster Artist star told Cagle, “Over the course of my teaching, I did sleep with students, and that was wrong. 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. So it wasn’t a ‘master plan’ on my part. 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.”
Back in June, Franco settled a sexual misconduct lawsuit for $2,235,000 after he and his business partner were accused of engaging “in widespread inappropriate and sexually charged behavior towards female students by sexualizing their power as a teacher and an employer by dangling the opportunity for roles in their projects” at their acting school, Studio 4.