Busy Philipps Accuses James Franco of Assault
by EG
James Franco has been accused of bad behavior by actresses before, and now there's a new allegation about an old incident. This time, the accusation comes from Busy Philipps, who worked with Franco on the TV series Freaks and Geeks. Read on for details.
Via Page Six.
Busy Philipps writes in her new book, “This Will Only Hurt a Little,” that James Franco was a “f–king bully” on the set of “Freaks and Geeks,” detailing a time that he allegedly pushed her to the ground.
In the scene, Philipps, who played Franco’s on-again-off-again girlfriend Kim Kelly on the show, was told to hit his chest while yelling “Dammit Daniel, do SOMETHING.” She did the scene and instead of delivering his next line, Philipps said he “grabbed both my arms and screamed in my face, ‘DON’T EVER TOUCH ME AGAIN!”
She claims Franco then threw her to the ground and she had the wind knocked out of her. She said that she had tears in her eyes, but insisted to everyone on set at the time that she was fine.
They did the take one more time and then she says she ran to her co-star Linda Cardellini’s trailer and “sobbed” as she told Cardellini the story. Cardellini advised her to call her manager. She adds that writer Judd Apatow and creator Paul Feig weren’t on set at the time.
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