Scottish girl James Franco 'flirted with' reveals she's still being trolled four years on

The 21-year-old shared a screenshot of one of the comments she received
Flirting: James Franco and Lucy Clode exchanged messages after meeting
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Natasha Sporn9 April 2018
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The Scottish girl James Franco once flirted with online has revealed that she is still being trolled four years on from what happened.

Lucy Clode exchanged messages with Franco after the pair met at a stage door in New York when Franco was performing on Broadway.

The then 17-year-old posted her chats with Franco, who was 35 at the time, online and the star later apologised for his “bad judgement” in flirting with the schoolgirl.

But Lucy has now spoken out about how she still receives hate online in a blog post, even posting one of the comments telling her to “kill herself”.

In her post, first spotted by The Daily Record, she wrote that “some people really hate her” and that it took a “long time to realise that it wasn’t ok”.

She concluded the post by urging people suffering with online abuse to talk to somebody and posted a series of links to help sites.

Earlier this year, Franco was digitally scrubbed from Vanity Fair following sexual misconduct allegations.

The magazine’s 12 Extraordinary Stars, One Momentous Year cover failed to feature Franco despite him being present at the shoot.

A spokesperson for the magazine has revealed that it took the decision to exclude him from the finished version amid claims of sexual misconduct, which he categorically denies.

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