Shia LaBeouf and the Hollywood talent agency CAA divorced, as the actor is currently receiving inpatients, Variety exclusively learned. The news follows a lawsuit filed in December by his ex-girlfriend, actor and musician FKA Twigs, who accused LaBeouf of physical abuse during their relationship.
Since then, LaBeouf has been accused of emotional abuse by several women, and a pattern of his behavior has been well documented over the years, while still working in the entertainment industry.
CAA did not fire LaBeouf, said two people familiar with the matter Varietyand explains that the actor made the decision to take a breather to act so that he could focus only on his recovery and get the help he acknowledged he needed. At the moment, CAA is not working with LaBeouf and has not been working for about a month.
CAA did not respond to a request for comment Variety‘s request for comment.
LaBeouf has been receiving treatment for more than five weeks, a source said, and the actor is currently living in an inpatient facility. His release will depend on his recovery.
A representative of LaBeouf declined to comment on this story.
It is unclear what specific treatment LaBeouf is receiving. However, when LaBeouf responded to the sexual battery case late last year, he admitted he had alcoholism and aggression and said he had been insulting those around him for years.
“I’m not able to tell anyone how my behavior made them feel,” LaBeouf said in December in response to allegations of sexual battery, assault and inflicting emotional distress. “I have a history of hurting the people closest to me,” he added. “I am ashamed of history and I feel sorry for those I have hurt. There’s nothing else I can really say. ”
The events for LaBeouf are different from the industry’s handling of recent claims against Marilyn Manson, who was dismissed by the CAA after Evan Rachel Wood accused him of abuse, and Armie Hammer, who was fired by WME because allegations of multiple women continue to circulate. about the actor on social media.
LaBeouf has a history of legal issues, arrests, problematic behavior and most recently in rehabilitation due to alcohol addiction.
Before the lawsuit, in which FKA Twigs and another ex-girlfriend, stylist Karolyn Pho, both accused LaBeouf of physical abuse, LaBeouf was caught on camera during a heated argument in 2015 where he became almost violent with his on-and-off -af-girlfriend, actor Mia Goth and said: “If I had stayed there, I would have killed her.”
According to the latest case, LaBeouf is a danger to women. The lawsuit holds the industry responsible for ignoring its past behavior, which has been well documented in the news.
“Shia LaBeouf hurts women,” reads the lawsuit. “He uses them. He abuses them, both physically and mentally. He’s dangerous. ”
The lawsuit set out a series of gruesome allegations by FKA Twigs and another of LaBeouf’s ex-girlfriends, stylist Karolyn Pho, that LaBeouf pinned her drunk to a bed and grabbed her head hard enough to draw blood. . FKA Twigs said in the lawsuit that she was awakened on one occasion by LaBeouf who violently pressed her arms, her arms against her will and choked her, according to the lawsuit. On another occasion, she claims that he became manic while driving, and when she tried to get out of the car, he threatened to fall, and then stopped briefly at a gas station where he violently attacked her and hit the car. threw and shouted at her. face and try to strangle her. The lawsuit also alleges that LaBeouf knowingly infected her with an SOS.
Apart from the serious allegations of abuse, Variety also heard from various quarters that LaBeouf was difficult on set because his poor demeanor and style clashed with the cast and crew of a recent film after which he was fired by director Olivia Wilde.
After the lawsuit, Netflix also scrubbed LaBeouf’s name out of his Oscars campaign this awards season for the movie “Pieces of a Woman,” in which he stars. LaBeouf – who gained notoriety on Disney Channel’s “Even Stevens” and the mega-hit “Transformers” franchise – has no other upcoming projects.
A person close to LaBeouf says the actor takes the time to step back from his career to take care of himself and get the care he needs.
While LaBeouf’s representatives did not respond to this story, his attorney, Shawn Holley, said Variety in December 2020, “Shia needs help and he knows it. We are actively seeking the meaningful, intensive long-term inpatient treatment he urgently needs. ”
A lawyer for FKA Twigs and Pho said earlier Variety that before the women filed a case, they tried to resolve the case privately “provided that Mr LaBeouf agrees to receive meaningful and consistent psychological treatment.” The women also asked LaBeouf to make a donation to a shelter for domestic violence. “Since he was unwilling to agree to seek appropriate assistance,” plaintiff’s attorney, Bryan Freedman, told FKA Twigs, “filed the case to prevent others from unknowingly suffering similar abuse from him.”
Variety contacted FKA Twigs and Pho for comment in response to the news that LaBeouf had received inpatient treatment. (We’ll update this story if we’re hearing from the two women or their lawyer.)