James Franco used an appearance on Live with Kelly and Michael to discuss recent allegations that he had hit on a 17-year-old using Instagram.
A Scottish teen, on a short trip to New York City, met the actor after his Broadway show Of Mice and Men. The two later flirted on Instagram; the conversation was later posted by the teen to Imgur (later deleted).
Franco said that he was embarrassed. “I guess I’m just a model of how social media is tricky, the actor/director/student/professor said. “I used bad judgement, and I learned my lesson.”
“Not only do I have to go through the embarrassing rituals of meeting someone, sometimes if I do that, then it gets published to the world, so then it’s doubly embarrassing.”
Michael Strahan noted that it was Franco’s prerogative to bring up the news.
