
Twigs also described how race played into their relationship, saying that LaBeouf told her she was only cast in Honey Boy because they needed a Black woman for diversity. I’m in the character.’ He made me feel bad, like I didn’t understand what it was like to be an actor." I don’t just get up on a stage and do a few moves. Why are you doing that?'" She continued, "He was like, ‘Because I take my art seriously. She recalled, "I said to him, ‘That’s really bad. The singer also claimed LaBeouf specifically showed her disturbing documentaries of women being violently raped and murdered and even bragged about shooting stray dogs to prepare for his 2020 film The Tax Collector. That’s what it boils down to: I wasn’t allowed joy unless it directly revolved around him."

He made me feel like I wasn’t allowed joy, basically. He hated that I had an experience to myself something that didn’t involve him, a memory that gave me joy. It’s isolation, so I don’t talk to my friends. The actor gradually isolated her from friends and family, with FKA twigs describing one instance when he started arguing with her after hearing her laugh with a friend on FaceTime: "He said he doesn’t make me laugh like that, so then I had to hide laughing with my friends. LaBeouf allegedly put rules in place on how he wanted her to show him affection each day and would verbally berate her when she didn't meet those requests. I look back now, and it feels like really aggressive love."Īxelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic/Getty ImagesĪfter moving into his Los Angeles house in 2018, twigs said the abuse and manipulation escalated quickly. Twigs told the magazine that he would send her multiple floral bouquets per day for more than 10 days straight, with every batch saying "more love." "It was a bit too much," she remembered. In the ELLE interview, twigs said the beginnings of her and LaBeouf's relationship felt great, but she later recognized that his grand gestures of affection, called "love bombing," were a subtle manipulation technique that disarmed her against future abuse. The former couple first met on the set of the 2019 film Honey Boy, in which LaBeouf plays his own father in a semi-autobiography of his life. In a statement to the New York Times, LaBeouf claimed that "many of these allegations are not true." This comes months after FKA twigs filed a lawsuit against LaBeouf alleging "relentless" physical and verbal abuse during their relationship and claiming he infected her with an STD that he didn't tell her about beforehand. "Whereas if you put a frog in cool water and heat it up slowly, that frog is going to boil to death. "If you put a frog in a boiling pot of water, that frog is going to jump out straight away,” she said, analogizing her experience. 17, saying that it felt like being "boiled to death" at times. The singer opened up about her relationship with Shia LaBeouf in a new interview for ELLE, published on Wednesday, Feb.

LaBeouf sought treatment for alcoholism in 20.Trigger warning: This piece contains descriptions of domestic violence that may be disturbing to some readers.įKA twigs is ready to keep telling her story. The past decade has seen several run-ins with the law for disorderly conduct, drunk driving and anger management issues. LaBeouf found fame as a Disney Channel star on "Even Stevens" and later appeared in movies including "Transformers" and "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull."

Barnett filed this suit to prevent others from unknowingly suffering similar abuse by him," Freedman said. "Since he was unwilling to agree to get appropriate help, Ms. She also accuses LaBeouf of knowingly giving her a sexually transmitted disease.īarnett's attorney Freedman said in a statement that Barnett initially wanted to resolve the matter privately on condition the actor agree to receive "meaningful and consistent psychological treatment". It said that on one occasion in February 2019, the actor slammed Barnett against a car and tried to strangle her. The lawsuit says LaBeouf "engaged in a continuous stream of verbal and mental abuse toward Tahliah, belittling her and berating her after the slightest perceived 'insult'." Barnett met LaBeouf while appearing in his 2019 semi-autobiographical film "Honey Boy" about a young actor's dysfunctional early years.
