In the aftermath of sexual assault allegations, Seth Rogen says he has no current plans to work with his former collaborator James Franco.

Rogen made the remarks in an interview published Sunday by the Sunday Times Magazine to promote his new memoir, Yearbook, acknowledging that the claims had a negative impact on their friendship.

Rogen also recalled an onstage joke he made during a “Saturday Night Live” monologue in 2014, when he said that he “posed as a girl on Instagram, told [Franco] I was way young,” adding that Franco “seemed unfazed.” The joke came in response to a 17-year-old’s accusation that Franco had sent her a sexually explicit Instagram message.

“What 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,” Rogen told the Times. “However, I do look back at a joke I made on ‘Saturday Night Live’ in 2014 and I very much regret making that joke. It was a terrible joke, honestly.”

Rogen and Franco have worked together on a number of projects, beginning with the short-lived 1999 sitcom Freaks and Geeks and later on films such as Pineapple Express, This Is the End, and The Disaster Artist.

Following his Golden Globes win for best actor in The Disaster Artist in 2018, five women accused Franco of sexually inappropriate or exploitative conduct. Sarah Tither-Kaplan, a former acting student at Studio4, the film school Franco established, revealed a “bonus: nude orgy scene with Franco and several women” that she was requested to film for the 2015 film The Long Home. She said Franco removed the protective shields meant to cover female genitals during the scene and simulated oral sex on them without protection.

Franco’s legal counsel first replied to the allegations of misbehavior by calling them “false and inflammatory.”

During appearances on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” he also addressed the charges.

“I have my own side of this story, but I believe in these people that have been underrepresented getting their stories out enough that I will hold back things that I could say just because I believe in it that much,” he told Meyers.

Despite the claims, Rogen has previously stated that he will continue to work with Franco – but that has now changed, according to Rogen.

“I also look back to that interview in 2018 where I comment that I would keep working with James, and the truth is that I have not and I do not plan to right now,” Rogen said

“I can say it, um, you know, it has changed many things in our relationship and our dynamic,” Rogen said of his decision to no longer work with the actor.

When a reporter for The New York Times observed that the predicament “must be painful,” Rogen said, “Yeah. But not as painful and difficult as it is for a lot of other people involved. I have no pity for myself in this situation.”