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"James Franco has admitted to exchanging flirty messages with a 17-year-old girl, stating: &amp;quot;I guess I&amp;#039;m just a model about how social media&amp;#039;s tricky&amp;quot;. The Oscar-nominated actor said that he was &amp;quot;embarrassed&amp;quot; of the &amp;quot;bad judgement&amp;quot; he displayed when contacting a Scottish schoolgirl who was staying in New York over Instagram and text.      Franco told Live with Kelly and Michael: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m embarrassed. I guess I&amp;#039;m just a model about how social media&amp;#039;s tricky. It&amp;#039;s a way people meet each other today, but what I&amp;#039;ve learned is you don&amp;#039;t know who&amp;#039;s on the other end. I used bad judgment and I learned my lesson. &amp;quot;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&amp;#039;s doubly embarrassing.&amp;quot; Franco is reported to have got in touch with the teenager after she posted an image of him on Instagram, which she had taken outside the stage doors of Franco&amp;#039;s Broadway production of Of Mice and Men in New York. Host Kelly Ripa called Franco&amp;#039;s apology &amp;quot;perfectly acceptable&amp;quot;, noting: &amp;quot;It happens to everybody, and it happens to movie stars on a much grander scale.&amp;quot;  She then joked: &amp;quot;And I promise I will not reveal our text messages.&amp;quot; Speculation that the controversy is all a publicity stunt emerged after a trailer for Franco&amp;#039;s new movie Palo Alto, in which a young student (Emma Roberts) engages in an affair with her soccer coach, was released yesterday. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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