It's splitsville for Franco, O'Reilly

London: Actor James Franco has confirmed that his five-year relationship with actress Ahna O'Reilly has ended.

The actor parted ways with his girlfriend because he is busy with his education priorities.

Franco has been studying at Yale University, New York University, Warren Wilson College in North Carolina, Brooklyn College and Columbia University, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

"It's over. That lasted about four or five years. We'd been living together in Los Angeles and then came to New York to go to school for two years. Then I signed up for more school at Yale. I think that was it for her," the 33-year-old actor said in the new issue of Playboy magazine.