There were rumors starts circulating on Thursday claims that James Franco try to persuade a girl named Lucy Clode, a 17-year old Scottish girl on instagram. Clode posted the screen shoots of conversation on Imgur which are deleted from Imgur now but we have added one below.

Franco appeared on Live! With Kelly and Michael on Friday saying he's embarrassed.

"I was feeling awkward," Franco said. "I guess I'm just a model of how social media is tricky. It's a way people meet each other today. ... You don't know who's on the other end. ... I used bad judgment and I learned my lesson."

The news comes just before the James upcoming movie Palo Alto, in which James plays a soccer coach who begins a romantic relationship with an underage girl.

The whole Instagram story is a promotion trick for his new movie, if not then why the profile of Clode is deleted from Instagram, and why not do a little trick like this on Instagram, and news channels do free promotions of millions, nice done Franco.

James also comments on Instagram about this event, but the picture is removed later. We added the image below.

I'M NOT! I HOPE PARENTS KEEP THEIR TEENS AWAY FROM ME. Thank you http://t.co/I1d4n3yVe0

— James Franco (@JamesFrancoTV) April 2, 2014

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