{"id":2015,"date":"2025-02-12T18:49:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T18:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2025-02-12T18:49:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T18:49:41","slug":"seth-rogen-finally-responds-to-james-franco-revealing-the-end-of-their-friendship-after-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/?p=2015","title":{"rendered":"Seth Rogen finally responds to James Franco revealing the end of their friendship after 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>After twenty years, Seth Rogen finally replies to James Franco\u2019s message that they are no longer friends.<\/h4>\n<p>After James Franco said that their friendship was \u201cover\u201d after 20 years, Seth Rogen replied.<\/p>\n<p>Fans used to love this comedy bromance between the two stars. They worked together on movies like \u201cThe Interview,\u201d \u201cThis Is the End,\u201d and \u201cPineapple Express.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But after Franco was accused of sexual misconduct in 2018, Rogen cut ties with the star in public. And in an interview with Variety at the end of last year, the shamed star said that the two no longer talk.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=1&amp;width=3840&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/bltcd74acc1d0a99f3a\/bltd03eed60c7a6f26e\/67ac65b79d96934a3e969afa\/GettyImages-2189470649.jpg\" alt=\"Rogen said it 'wasn't on his radar' (Mike Marsland\/WireImage)\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-image_articleImage__eyzAn\"><cite class=\"image-credit_imageCredit__YMlqS\">Rogen said it \u2018wasn\u2019t on his radar\u2019 (Mike Marsland\/WireImage)<\/cite><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Franco said at the time that the claims were \u201cnot accurate,\u201d but he also said that he didn\u2019t want to \u201cshut down\u201d people who \u201cdidn\u2019t have a voice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The American consented to pay \u00a32.23 million (\u00a31.67 million) to settle a case brought by two former students of Studio 4, his now-defunct film school.<\/p>\n<p>Franco stayed out of the public eye for a while after that and told Variety that he had \u201cchanged his whole way of life\u201d before talking about how his friendship with Rogen had changed.<\/p>\n<p>Actress from 127 Hours said, \u201cI haven\u2019t talked to Seth.\u201d \u201cI love Seth, and I expect our 20 years together to be over at this point.\u201d And not because they didn\u2019t try. \u201cTold him how much I appreciated him.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=1&amp;width=3840&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/bltcd74acc1d0a99f3a\/blta4f8e97038074ef4\/67ac658c9d96931d3b969af2\/GettyImages-873451458.jpg\" alt=\"The duo are no more (Barry King\/Getty Images)\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-image_articleImage__eyzAn\"><cite class=\"image-credit_imageCredit__YMlqS\">The duo are no more (Barry King\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n<p>In an interview that came out yesterday (February 11), Esquire asked Rogen how it felt \u201cto have something so personal become so public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 42-year-old was \u201cclearly not surprised to get the question,\u201d but he was \u201cjust as clearly not happy about it,\u201d according to the reporter, David Holmes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle adsbygoogle-noablate\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9783932477365282\" data-adsbygoogle-status=\"done\" data-ad-status=\"unfilled\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"aswift_3_host\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"aswift_3\" tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Advertisement\" 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People slammed Franco for \u201ctrying to make Seth look like the bad guy\u201d in his Variety interview after it went live.<\/p>\n<p>Others said that \u201ccutting off all ties\u201d was the right thing to do.<\/p>\n<p>But even though the lawsuit settled some very serious accusations against Franco, some fans still said that the pair\u2019s relationship was the \u201cend of an era.\u201d One even said, \u201cReal friends don\u2019t drop you when you\u2019re down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Rogen spoke out against Franco in public when he told the Sunday Times what he thought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I can say is that I despise abuse and harassment and I would never cover or conceal the actions of someone doing it, or knowingly put someone in a situation where they were around someone like that.\u201d He told me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember saying in that interview in 2018 that I would keep working with James. The truth is that I haven\u2019t and don\u2019t plan to right now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can say it, um, you know, it has changed many things in our relationship and our dynamic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Picture on the front page: Michael Kovac\/Getty Images Champagne Moet &amp; Chandon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After twenty years, Seth Rogen finally replies to James Franco\u2019s message that they are no longer friends. After James Franco said that their friendship was \u201cover\u201d after 20 years, Seth Rogen replied. Fans used to love this comedy bromance between the two stars. They worked together on movies like \u201cThe Interview,\u201d \u201cThis Is the End,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2016,"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}