LOS ANGELES — Singer FKA twigs filed a lawsuit Friday alleging that Shia LaBeouf was bodily and emotionally abusive throughout their relationship from 2018 to 2019, saying her expertise was a part of a sample of terrorizing girls for the 34-year-old actor.
“Shia LaBeouf hurts girls,” the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court docket mentioned in its opening strains. “He makes use of them. He abuses them, each bodily and mentally. He’s harmful.”
FKA twigs — a 32-year-old British singer and actress whose authorized title is Tahliah Barnett — alleges within the lawsuit that LaBeouf left her in a relentless state of worry and humiliation, as soon as slammed her right into a automobile, tried to strangle her and knowingly gave her a sexually transmitted illness.
An electronic mail despatched to a consultant searching for remark from LaBeouf was not instantly returned, however in an electronic mail to The New York Occasions the actor mentioned: “I’ve no excuses for my alcoholism or aggression, solely rationalizations. I’ve been abusive to myself and everybody round me for years. I’ve a historical past of wounding the individuals closest to me. I’m ashamed of that historical past and am sorry to these I harm.”
The 2 met and have become a pair after Barnett was solid in “Honey Boy,” an autobiographical movie about LaBeouf’s upbringing as a baby actor that portrayed his father as abusive however loving. Barnett had a supporting position alongside LaBeouf.
After what the lawsuit described as an early “allure offensive,” LaBeouf satisfied Barnett to maneuver in with him, resulting in what the lawsuit characterised as a “residing nightmare.”
LaBeouf remoted FKA twigs from household and associates, demanding absolute fealty, and fixed verbal abuse led to a number of bodily assaults on her, the lawsuit claimed.
He was ferociously jealous of everybody from waiters she was well mannered with to her ex-fiance, actor Robert Pattinson, the lawsuit alleged.
On a Valentine’s Day getaway in 2019, FKA twigs awoke to LaBeouf choking her and he or she was paralyzed with worry, the lawsuit mentioned. He later drove wildly and threatened to crash his automobile if she didn’t profess everlasting love for him and he or she feared for her life, the lawsuit claimed.
When she tried to get out of the automobile and get away from her at a gasoline station, he slammed her towards the automobile, tried to strangle her, and compelled her to get again in, the lawsuit mentioned.
When she was making an attempt to finish the connection and go away him the next month, he violently grabbed her and lifted her off the bottom as she was making an attempt to depart, in keeping with a housekeeper who witnessed the incident and was cited within the lawsuit.
The lawsuit additionally alleged that LaBeouf knowingly gave her an unspecified sexually transmitted illness that he went to nice lengths to cover from her for a lot of their relationship, together with his use of make-up.
LaBeouf saved weapons in the home the place they have been residing and he generally slept with them, placing Barnett in a relentless state of worry,” the lawsuit mentioned.
She made a number of makes an attempt to go away him that he resisted, however he later ended the connection himself, the lawsuit mentioned.
Karolyn Pho, a stylist who LaBeouf dated in 2010 and 2011, mentioned within the lawsuit that she obtained comparable therapy from LaBeouf — together with fixed threats and humiliation that generally escalated to bodily violence.
The lawsuit mentioned Pho allied herself with Barnett in an try to guard girls from LaBeouf, though Pho is just not listed as a plaintiff.
LaBeouf advised The New York Occasions that many allegations within the lawsuit and from different girls who spoke about him with the newspaper for its report “are usually not true” however added that he owed the ladies “the chance to air their statements publicly and settle for accountability for these issues I’ve carried out.” He didn’t inform the newspaper which allegations he contests.
LaBeouf mentioned he’s in restoration and remedy over alcoholism and PTSD, saying he “will without end be sorry to the those that I’ll have harmed alongside the way in which.”
LaBeouf is understood for his depth as an actor, and generally self-lacerating public performances.
He first gained fame as a teen on the Disney Channel present “Even Stevens,” and is finest identified for his roles in 2007′s “Transformers” and in 2008′s “Indiana Jones and the Crystal Cranium.”
He has had a number of run-ins with the legislation throughout his profession, together with a 2017 New York Metropolis arrest on suspicion of assault that occurred throughout a livestream.
The lawsuit seeks financial damages to be decided at trial. Barnett mentioned within the lawsuit that she is going to donate a major a part of any cash obtained to a charity for abused girls.
“This motion has been introduced not for private acquire, however to set the file straight, and to assist be sure that no extra girls endure the abuse that Shia LaBeouf has inflicted on his earlier romantic companions,” the lawsuit mentioned.
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This story was first printed Dec. 11, 2020. It was up to date on Feb. 27, 2026, to right that LaBeouf’s 2017 New York arrest was on suspicion of assault, not public drunkenness and disorderly conduct.
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