FKA Twigs outlines the “systematic” abuse she allegedly suffered from former Shia LaBeouf.
In an extensive interview with Elle magazine following her lawsuit against LaBeouf, the 33-year-old Twigs claims that his love has changed from romantic to abusive – and that he allegedly knowingly gave her a sexually transmitted disease. Supreme Court claim.
After the STD diagnosis, which she describes as a final betrayal, Twigs mustered the courage to meet the 34-year-old LaBeouf, whom she met, after Robert Pattinson.
“I think it’s luck,” she said she was able to escape. ‘I honestly wish I could say I found strength and that I saw this light. I wish I could say, ‘[It is] a proof of my strong character ‘, or’ as my mother raised me. “It’s none of that. It’s pure luck that I’m no longer in that situation. ”
Twigs, now based on frontman Matty Healy of 1975, claims that LaBeouf would use ‘calculated, systematic, troublesome and maze’ tactics in the interview to keep her in the relationship, including ‘love bomb’, in which he allegedly twigs suffocated. with flowers, mea culpas and more to win her back after a fight.
“It was a little too much. It felt uncomfortable. I look back now, and it feels really aggressive love, ”she shared.
According to Twigs, LaBeouf’s alleged abuse did not take place overnight. Twigs claims that the behavior of the “Pieces of a Woman” star deteriorated after she moved in with him and increasingly experienced abuse.
“If you throw a frog in a boiling pot of water, the frog will jump out immediately,” she said. ‘While throwing a frog in cool water and heating it slowly, the frog will boil to death. It was my experience to be present [LaBeouf]. ”
Twigs also became frightened of LaBeouf’s way of acting, which she said required him to keep a gun in the house. She also claims that LaBeouf, who has a tumultuous dating history with other Hollywood women, boasted about shooting stray dogs to ‘get character’ for his role in ‘The Tax Collector’ and asked him about it.
And he was like, ‘Because I take my art seriously. You do not support me in my art. This is what I do. It differs from singing. I don’t just stand on a stage and do some moves. I’m in the character, ” she recalls.
‘He made me feel bad, like I did not understand what it was like to be an actor or to do it … Method [acting]. ”
When Twigs finally had enough, she started looking for help from her friends, but eventually became too scared to do anything.
‘[My friend] expected me to be at his house when he came back and I just was not, and then I never spoke to him again, ”she says. “I used to get this feeling of intense fear and shame and would disappear from people’s lives.”
With the relationship in her rearview mirror, Twigs said she could enjoy normal life with friends and family again without anyone controlling her.
“I have my life back. I can work as late as I want. I can see my friends. ‘To be able to hit Dua Lipa on Instagram, make a song with her, perform in her live stream and have a new girlfriend … and there is no fear of that,’ she said. No fear of, like, ‘What’s going to cause me? What trouble am I going to be in? ‘”
LaBeouf, who has a difficult history with the law, has denied “every allegation” in the Twigs case. LaBeouf’s lawyers argued in the documents that Twigs, whose real name is Tahliah Barnett, “did not suffer any injury or damage as a result of the accused’s actions.”
They allege that LaBeouf’s alleged conduct was “reasonably necessary for his self-defense and / or safety.”
LaBeouf reported to a long-term treatment facility in December after a Twigs lawsuit.