But yes, there were certain instances where, you know what I was in a consensual thing with, with a student and I shouldn’t have been.” James Franco admitted to having sex with some of his students. “But like I said, I, it’s not why I started the school and I, I didn’t, I wasn’t the person that selected the people to be in the class. I didn’t sleep with anybody in, but, over the course of my teaching, I did sleep with students and that was wrong,” Franco, 43, explained to Cagle. “Look, I’ll admit I did sleep with students. The “This Is the End” star admitted in a wide-ranging interview with SiriusXM’s Jess Cagle that he thought sleeping with students of his acting school, Studio 4, was acceptable because it was “consensual” but denied starting the program to have access to them. James Franco is finally copping to having sex with his students more than two years after they accused him of sexual exploitation. The actor's attorneys previously shot down the claims as 'false.