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James Franco responds to sexual misconduct allegations

The actor has spoken out

James and his brother | Picture Brian To/WENN.com

James Franco has denied the sexual harassment allegations made against him.

During his appearance on Tuesday’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the actor was asked about the accusations after he received criticism for wearing a Time’s Up pin at the Golden Globe Awards, during which he won the Best Actor award for The Disaster Artist.

On Sunday night, a number of women, including The Breakfast Club actress Ally Sheedy, called out James Franco with the #MeToo hashtag.

In since-deleted tweets, Ally wrote, “Why is James Franco allowed in? Said too much.” and “James Franco just won. Please never ever ask me why I left the film/tv business.”

James Franco, Ally Sheedy | Credit: Joseph Marzullo/WENN.com

Responding to the tweets, James said, “I haven’t read them. I’ve heard about them.”

He continued, “Okay, first of all, I have no idea what I did to Ally Sheedy, I directed her in a play Off-Broadway.”

James worked with Ally back in 2014 on his Off-Broadway directorial debut, The Long Shrift.

“I had nothing but a great time with her, total respect for her. I have no idea why she was upset. She took the tweet down. I don’t know. I can’t speak for her, I don’t know.”

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“The others… look, in my life, I pride myself on taking responsibility for things that I’ve done. I have to do that to maintain my well-being. I do it whenever I know that there is something wrong or needs to be changed, I make it a point to do it.”

“The things that I heard that were on Twitter are not accurate, but I completely support people coming out and being able to have a voice because they didn’t have a voice for so long.

“So I don’t want to, you know, shut them down in any way. It’s, I think, a good thing and I support it.”

Speaking about wearing the Time’s Up pin, James said, “Well, first, I want to say I wore it because I do support it. I was, you know – look, I was so excited to win, but being in that room that night was incredible. I mean, it was powerful.”

“There were incredible voices, and I support it. I support change. I support 50/50 and 20/20 which just means, you know, people that are underrepresented, women, and people of color, people in the LGBT community get, you know, positions – leadership positions that they fill all positions that they have been deprived of, I completely believe in that.”

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