James Franco shares erratic posts claiming aliens live in his garage

James Franco has resurfaced on social media, spouting strange conspiracy theories about an alien living in his garage.

The 48-year-old former actor has been posting on TikTok since the start of this month, often wearing a bedraggled blue t-shirt, which viewers think is a clue to something.

Franco was shunned from Hollywood after being accused of sexual misconduct during the Me Too movement, which he denied.

He attempted a comeback four years ago but even former close friend Seth Rogen has said he wouldn’t work with Franco again.

Now, he’s claimed there’s a creature with ‘glowing eyes’ lurking in his garage, which he said he needed to ‘expose’.

In the first video, Franco insisted that he was ‘not AI’ and not promoting any projects with the caption: ‘I can’t say to much right now. But stick around and I promise it will all make sense.’

He told people to follow him, before posting a second video in the same torn t-shirt, which had two strips of tape and ‘bruce robin’ written on it.

‘I know how this looks, this dude’s like 48-years old, like get in on this internet game,’ he said after several videos of him looking stressed.

Franco, who claimed he was being watched, continued: ‘That’s not what’s going on. I don’t know what to do. Whenever I go and tell people, they just tell me I’m crazy or whatever. They tell me to shut up and I don’t wanna shut up.

‘I want this to come out because I don’t want this to be on me alone. If I bring it to the world maybe y’all will help me figure this situation out. I won’t be alone.’

The video was spliced with clips of him saying things were ‘crazy’, complete with sound effects as he suggested he might be sectioned for speaking out.

It took around eight videos, shared over several days, for Franco to reveal he believed he had seen an ‘alien’.

Despite him saying multiple times he was going to go out to the garage and ‘show’ viewers this creature, no video evidence manifested.

In another clip, which viewers criticised for being ‘staged’ he said he had a ‘wellness check’ as two men arrived at his house and he tried to convince them it ‘wasn’t a bit’.

Later, he posted the scribbled message ‘7-13’ on a ripped piece of cardboard, which viewers took as him promising to share information on July 13.

The next video claimed to be a hacker telling him to ‘stop and delete the account’, which many said sounded suspiciously like Franco putting on a voice.

The entire saga has left viewers feeling a little fed up with one commenter, AJ, writing, ‘James you said it’s not a movie’, to which he replied: ‘It’s not’.

‘James pls. We are all very tired’ an anonymous account said as Perla A232 added: ‘This is pure ACTING.’

Many suspect this is promotion for a new film called Love Meets in the Sunshine, which is one of the only accounts Franco’s page follows, despite his denials.

The film’s director Christian Guiton pushed back against this speculation, saying: ‘It’s not a science fiction movie. It’s not a conspiracy movie. If I were promoting Sunshine, this is not how we would do it.’

Franco’s character in the film doesn’t appear to be linked to his alien assertions; instead, he plays a terminally ill man who embarks on a road trip with a grumpy drifter.

Currently, Love Meets in the Sunshine has no release date, leaving viewers confused over the state of Franco’s mental health.

The Freaks and Geeks actor stepped away from the spotlight after facing allegations of sexual misconduct in 2018, with his last roles being in 2019.

In 2019, students at Studio 4, his now-closed film and acting school, sued Franco and his partners for allegedly ‘engaging in widespread inappropriate and sexually charged behaviour towards female students by sexualising their power as a teacher and an employer by dangling the opportunity for roles in their projects’. 

In 2020, Franco alleged the pair were ‘attention-hungry’ and made false and inflammatory’ claims for publicity. 

He later agreed on a settlement and reportedly agreed to pay $2.2million (£1.6million) to resolve the lawsuit but denied the allegations.