Amid sexual misconduct claims, James Franco skips Critics’ Choice Awards
Amid sexual misconduct allegations, actor and filmmaker James Franco chose to skip the 2018 Critics’ Choice Awards where he won the Best Actor honour for his role in The Disaster Artist.
The Los Angeles Times published a report on January 11 in which five women went on record accusing Franco of sexually inappropriate and exploitative behaviour. Four of the accusers are Franco’s former acting students.
“He’s in a really bad place, so bad that he changed his phone number,” a source close to the situation told People Magazine. “His close friends are trying to be there for him but it’s been hard. He’s only talking to a select group of people. For now, he’s just hiding out.”
Allegations of sexual misconduct involving the 39-year-old emerged in force on Twitter on Sunday night during the Golden Globes, where Franco won best actor, musical or comedy for his role as Tommy Wiseau.
During the ceremony, one actress tweeted that he had forced her to perform oral sex on her and asked a 17-year-old friend back to his hotel; a former student of Franco’s also tweeted that he had asked her to do a nude scene for $100 a day, which she called ‘exploitative.’
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