

LaBeouf would squeeze or grab her to the point of bruising. LaBeouf gave him a ride, he told them: “If I’d have stayed there, I would’ve killed her,” according to the video. In 2015, strangers recorded video of him arguing with his girlfriend at the time, the actress Mia Goth, telling her, “This is the kind of thing that makes a person abusive.” After the men recording Mr. He has been arrested several times on charges that have been dismissed, including assault and disorderly conduct, according to newspaper reports and public records. LaBeouf has a long history of turbulent behavior. “I am not cured of my PTSD and alcoholism," he wrote, “but I am committed to doing what I need to do to recover, and I will forever be sorry to the people that I may have harmed along the way.” He added that he was “a sober member of a 12-step program” and in therapy. LaBeouf, responding in a separate email, wrote that “many of these allegations are not true.” But, he continued, he owed the women “the opportunity to air their statements publicly and accept accountability for those things I have done.” Presented with a detailed account of the claims that the women made against him, in interviews and subsequently in the lawsuit, Mr. “I’d like to be able to raise awareness on the tactics that abusers use to control you and take away your agency,” FKA twigs, 32, born Tahliah Debrett Barnett, said. Her aim in coming forward, she said in an interview, was to explain how even a critically acclaimed artist with money, a home and a strong network of supporters could be caught in such a cycle. LaBeouf, 34, abused FKA twigs physically, emotionally and mentally many times in a relationship that lasted just short of a year.

The gas station incident is at the heart of the lawsuit that says Mr. LaBeouf followed, and assaulted her, throwing her against the car while screaming in her face, according to the suit. After she begged to be let out of the car, she said he pulled over at a gas station and she took her bags from the trunk. LaBeouf, the star of “Transformers,” had raged at her throughout the trip, FKA twigs said in the lawsuit, once waking her up in the middle of the night, choking her. They were returning from the desert, where Mr. He was driving recklessly, she said in a lawsuit filed on Friday, removing his seatbelt and threatening to crash unless she professed her love for him.

At the wheel was her boyfriend, the actor Shia LaBeouf. Just after Valentine’s Day in 2019, the musician FKA twigs was in a car speeding toward Los Angeles.
