Lucy Clode is the 17-year-old that James Franco tried to woo in a series of Instagram messages and texts.
Franco tried to figure out quickly if Clode has a boyfriend and whether she wanted to get together in a hotel room.
She later posted the exchange on Twitter, prompting a firestorm of publicity.
She also took down her Instagram and made her Twitter private.
Clode says she got into a texting conversation with star actor James Franco and that he tried to woo her into a hotel room.
She said that the pair met earlier in the week when he was signing autographs outside his current play, “Of Mice and Men.”
She captured Franco on a video she posted but later took down on Instagram.
Franco told her to tag him in it and the situation started.
Some direct messages turned into text messages after Franco asked for her number.
Franco asked her is she had a boyfriend, to which she replied: “Not if you’re around.”
He also asked her age, to which she said “nearly 18.”
“When is your bday,” he added. “In May,” she said.
He later asked if he could see her and she said “As long as you are James Franco.”
“I am,” he said. “You’re single? What’s the hotel? Should I rent a room?”
He sent her two different photos of himself. “It’s me. Yes or no?” he said.
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Clode revealed in a post that: “Rejecting James Franco has to be the hardest thing I’ve ever done.” She told him that she'd get in touch when she’s 18 and back in New York City.
Franco admitted on Friday that the exchange was real and said in an interview on ABC that he had used “bad judgement.”
The 34-year-old actor said: “It’s the way that people meet each other today, but what I’ve learned--I guess because I’m new to it--is you don’t know who’s on the other end.”
“You get a feel for them, you don’t know who you’re talking to. I used bad judgement and I learned my lesson.
“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.”
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