Peacock’s new docuseries, Ladies Gone Wild: The Untold Story, explores how the world could have modified due to Ladies Gone Wild, and the way little its founder, Francis, has modified for the reason that salacious collection got here to an finish.

Francis sat down with the journalist Scaachi Koul for his first in-person interview in a decade — although solely on audio — the place, at one level, he is requested if he “feels dangerous” for the underage ladies who have been fueled with alcohol and pressured by his cameramen to movie nude scenes.

His response: “No, as a result of I do not imagine they have been victimized. They victimized me.”

Francis gave the impression to be referring particularly to a judgement made in 2008 relating to a 2003 incident by which Ladies Gone Wild crew filmed a number of ladies posing topless and interesting in sexual acts throughout spring break in Panama Metropolis, Florida. All 4 of the ladies turned out to be underage.

After they reported the incident to native police, officers put collectively a wide-ranging RICO case in opposition to Francis and his firm the resulted in misdemeanor youngster abuse and prostitution prices. Francis pled no contest, however had beforehand pled responsible to related prices, and would go on to face many extra like them sooner or later.

When Koul reminded Francis that the ladies on the heart of the 2008 case “have been fairly younger,” and much too younger to be held legally held accountable for his or her actions, he shot again alleging, “No, they have been 17, simply shy of 18. They have been those that victimized us. I imagine, all of us imagine, that they have been put up by the Panama Metropolis police, and it was all an operation. So I imagine that was fairly orchestrated.”

He added. “That is f–ked up. This occurred in the US, and it could occur to anybody. I walked right into a f–king snake pit.”

In actual fact, Francis thinks of himself as fairly the martyr, including that he thinks jealousy performed a component within the demise of his enterprise empire.

“I am a businessman. I personal an enormous firm. I am charming and handsome. I am a completely regular man. When you actually need to boil the entire thing down, it comes all the way down to jealousy,” he famous. “Do you suppose they f–ked up or that they f–ked me? I am June from The Handmaid’s Story. Jesus Christ, proper. He was a heretic, proper? Went round and stated, ‘I am the son of God.’ They killed the man.”

Whereas Francis, who now lives in exile in Mexico as a result of an energetic warrant issued for his arrest in 2014, shared little regret for his actions, a number of crew members from Ladies Gone Wild’s interviewed for the docuseries do really feel dangerous for the half they performed in utilizing Francis’ methodology of infiltrating spring break cities and exploiting younger, drunk ladies.

When requested concerning the lasting affect of the collection, Francis appeared happy with the impact it is had on society, telling Koul “it loosened the whole lot up.”

He continued, “I feel it simply made for a a lot extra enjoyable technology, I feel it created the flexibility to have, clearly, the Kardashians, and it did a lot extra. Extra, the whole lot, extra for society, for all times.”

Ladies Gone Wild: The Untold Story is presently streaming on Peacock.