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Lucy Clode

JAMES FRANCO'S

INSTAGRAM SCANDAL

When 17 year old fan Lucy Clode leaked screenshots of

Instagram and text messages exchanged with James Franco, 35, he found himself caught up in lots of social media contraversy. Her screenshots from Instagram showed James asking Lucy for her number and asked if she was single, where she was staying in New York, and if he should get a room there too. James went on Live With Kelly and Micheal to pubically appologize and clear the air. He said "I’m embarrassed," “I guess I’m just a model about how social media’s tricky. It’s a way people meet each other today, but what I’ve learned is you don’t know who’s on the other end. I used bad judgment and I learned my lesson.”

learned my lesson.” He also added, “Unfortunately in my position, not only do I have to go through the embarrassing rituals of meeting someone, but if I do that, then it gets published for the world so it’s doubly embarrassing.”

Fans were shocked when they heard that he was filrting with a younger fan, although the age of consent in New York is 17.