In his first interview in nearly four years, Franco also reveals he sought treatment for sex addiction (via toofab)
was accused of sexual misconduct by five different women -- four of whom were students at his acting school -- in 2018, the actor didn't offer up much of a response. Now, nearly four years later, he's speaking out.
"There's a writer, Damon Young, and he talked about, when something like this happens, the natural human instinct is to just make it stop. You just want to get out in front of it and whatever you have to do, apologize, get it done. But what that doesn't do is allow you to do the work and to look at what was underneath," he continued.
"Look, I'll admit I did sleep with students. I didn't sleep with anybody in that particular class. But, over the course of my teaching, I did sleep with students and that was wrong" he 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.
"Along the road of trying to get success and climb the top of that mountain, attention from women, success with women also became a huge source of validation for me," he explained."The problem with that is like, like any sort of drug or anything, there's never enough." Speaking a bit more about Pakzad, who he started dating before the allegations came out and who he is still dating, Franco said he was"willing to bet" the allegations were"very hard for her."
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