--- title: James Franco Wrote a Short Story About Not Sleeping With Lindsay Lohan description: Fact or fiction? canonical: https://time.com/2852086/james-franco-lindsay-lohan-story/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-10T13:54:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:10:35.215Z og:title: James Franco Wrote a Short Story About Not Sleeping With 'Lindsay Lohan' og:description: Fact or fiction? og:url: https://time.com/2852086/james-franco-lindsay-lohan-story/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc8d61abfe2d59353/698696e606f2c1dc7f32f665/156782581.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: "Liz & Dick" - Los Angeles Premiere - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: James Franco Wrote a Short Story About Not Sleeping With 'Lindsay Lohan' twitter:description: Fact or fiction? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc8d61abfe2d59353/698696e606f2c1dc7f32f665/156782581.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # James Franco Wrote a Short Story About Not Sleeping With 'Lindsay Lohan' ## Video: James Franco on His Favorite Performances [Watch (HLS stream): James Franco on His Favorite Performances](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/iKxUp6I5.m3u8) (1:32)  _Published 2011-02-10. The Oscar-nominated star of 127 Hours describes the acting performances that most amazed and inspired him._ by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Jun 10, 2014 1:54 PM UTC  LIndsay Lohan arrives at the "Liz & Dick" Los Angeles Premiere LIndsay Lohan arrives at the "Liz & Dick" Los Angeles PremiereSteve Granitz—Getty Images by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Jun 10, 2014 1:54 PM UTC Actor/director/PhD candidate/[Instagram ingenue](http://gawker.com/james-franco-tried-to-hook-up-with-a-17-year-old-on-ins-1557491436)/author James Franco wrote a short story about a character named [“Lindsay Lohan” for _Vice’s_ new fiction issue.](http://www.vice.com/read/bungalow-89-0000347-v21n6) While the piece, titled _Bungalow 89_, might purport to be fiction, career details, character names, and a photographs of Franco sprinkled throughout the piece indicate otherwise. The story actually reads like a tell-all explaining that Franco has refused time and time again to sleep with “Lohan”—even though she totally wanted to. With narcissism at an all-time high, the story consists of Franco pitying, condescending, and benevolently educating the wayward starlet in the writings of Salinger and lessons of self-control: --- > “” --- Here are key passages in which Franco makes sure everyone who is reading knows that he really and truly never now, then, or ever has had or wanted to have sex with Lohan. Not when she tried to break into his room: --- > “” --- Not when she tried to booty call him: --- > “” --- Not when she was cuddling up next to him in bed: --- > “” --- Not even that time a few years ago when she was high at New York club Bungalow 8 and dragged him into the mirrored bathroom to have sex: --- > “” --- But he does wish her well in her time of need! --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2852086/james-franco-lindsay-lohan-story/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2852086/james-franco-lindsay-lohan-story/"},"headline":"James Franco Wrote a Short Story About Not Sleeping With 'Lindsay Lohan'","datePublished":"2014-06-10T13:54:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:10:35.215Z","description":"Fact or fiction?","url":"https://time.com/2852086/james-franco-lindsay-lohan-story/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Living","celebrities","Lindsay Lohan","james franco"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc8d61abfe2d59353/698696e606f2c1dc7f32f665/156782581.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc8d61abfe2d59353/698696e606f2c1dc7f32f665/156782581.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"\"Liz & Dick\" - Los Angeles Premiere - Arrivals","caption":"\"Liz & Dick\" - Los Angeles Premiere - Arrivals","creditText":"Steve Granitz—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2852086/james-franco-lindsay-lohan-story/","name":"James Franco Wrote a Short Story About Not Sleeping With 'Lindsay Lohan'"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"James Franco on His Favorite Performances","description":"The Oscar-nominated star of 127 Hours describes the acting performances that most amazed and inspired him.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/iKxUp6I5/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2011-02-10T21:52:38.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/iKxUp6I5.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/2852086/james-franco-lindsay-lohan-story/","duration":"PT1M32S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/2852086/james-franco-lindsay-lohan-story/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```