James Franco's Accusers Just Want Him to Apologise

Trigger Warning: This article discusses sexual harassment and assault.

In an interview with Good Morning America, two women, Sarah Tither-Kaplan and Violet Paley, have gone on television to elaborate on their accusations against James Franco for his alleged sexual misconduct.

Sarah explained that, while a student in his acting master class 'Sex Scenes', he would add new scenes after scripts had been handed out, which she described as "gratuitous and exploitative."

"James abused his power by exploiting the non-celebrity women that he worked with under the guise of giving them opportunities," she said. 

Violet explained Franco pressured her into performing sexual acts on him. "He kinda, like, pushed my head down and said 'Come on'," she explained.

Two of James Franco's accusers speak out and allege inappropriate behavior by the star in a sit down interview with @arobach. "Please just apologize..." pic.twitter.com/U5yeJKTWxD

— Good Morning America (@GMA) January 23, 2018

When asked what Violet would want to ask Franco, she responded with: "Please just apologise." 

The news of these accusations first broke the day after the Golden Globes when Paley wrote on Twitter about an alleged experience she had with the actor.

Cute #TIMESUP pin James Franco. Remember the time you pushed my head down in a car towards your exposed penis & that other time you told my friend to come to your hotel when she was 17? After you had already been caught doing that to a different 17 year old?

— Violet Paley (@VioletPaley) January 8, 2018

Just a few hours before, Tither-Kaplan had also called him out for abusing his power while he conducted master acting classes with up-and-coming female actors.

Hey James Franco, now that you have a Golden Globe why don't you give speaking roles that don't require nudity in your upcoming films to the dozens of women who have done full nudity + sex scenes in your indie films and art projects?

— Sarah Tither-Kaplan🌈 (@sarahtk) January 8, 2018

Franco denied these accusations on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert saying that they were 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," Franco said. "If I've done something wrong, I'll fix it."

It's been speculated that Franco missed out on an Oscar nomination for his role in The Disaster Artist because of these allegations. 

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