London, Dec 25 : Hollywood actor James Franco has candidly revealed that as a kid he used to steal perfumes from departmental shops to earn extra pocket money.

The `Knocked Up' actor revealed that when he was in eighth grade, he used whip perfumes with his gang of friends from cosmetic counters.

Ironically, today Franco is the face of Gucci fragrances.

"I don''t know how it happened by somehow I got into stealing cologne. It''s kind of ironic now. We would go into department stores and they had the testers out there, we were looking for a bit of excitement," The Daily Express quoted Franco, as telling Jay Leno on his talk show.

"We had our cologne stealing ring. We would chat up the cologne attendant and then the other would swipe the bottle. We accumulated a huge stash, we would keep it in our lockers. We were in either grade so we''d sell it to the seventh graders, we would sell it for 15 dollars - I think it cost about 25 in the shops," Franco added. (ANI)