
James Franco, 35, admitted that he reached out to Lucy Clode, 17, via social media after meeting her outside of his Broadway show, Of Mice & Men. The young girl from Scotland was in New York City visiting with her mom when she met James. While she’s removed all of her social media accounts, we have all the pics of her right here — click through it here to see her, James, and all of their scandalous messaging.
“I’m embarrassed,” James admitted on the April 4 episode of Live! with Kelly & Michael. “I guess I’m just a model about how social media’s tricky.”
He went on to say that it’s “a way people meet each other today” before adding, “you don’t know who’s on the other end.”
“I used bad judgment and I learned my lesson,” he said.
However, the girl on the other end of the line was Lucy, a 17-year-old who went back and forth messaging with James after tagging him in a selfie she took outside the play (because he asked her to).
That led to messaging on Instagram then texting, where he asked how old she was, when her 18th birthday was, and what hotel she was staying at. He also sent two pictures of himself to prove to her that it was actually him.
Lucy claims that she turned James down flat — texting him to say she’d come back when she was 18.
Click through pics of the teen above and watch James’ apology. Are you shocked that James came clean? Let us know!
— Emily Longeretta
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