Shia LaBeouf Reveals He Was Raped by a Female Fan in Bizarre Interview with Dazed Magazine
Shia LaBeouf is really dishing out the bizarre with this one.
In a weird interview with Aimee Cliff of Dazed Magazine, Shia revealed how he was raped by a woman during an event he organised tagged #IAMSORRY with Nastja Rönkkö,
in an LA Gallery. At the event, LaBeouf met silently with members of
the public one by one for five days and had rather odd encounters.
Prior to that, Shia had contacted Aimee
asking if they could start communicating regularly, to which she agreed.
During the next couple of weeks, they kept in touch via e-mail
exchanging personal information like childhood memories, life lessons
and views on topical issues; before deciding to meet up in a hotel in
London during his Fury movie premiere.
Shia insisted that they not speak during
the meeting saying they should keep all of their words online and meet
without speaking. They finally met and both wore GPros with cameras
strapped to their heads for an hour.
She later got to question him on some of
his projects, movie campaigns and more, during which he made the
shocking revelation that he had been raped by a fan.
“One woman who came with her
boyfriend, who was outside the door when this happened, whipped my legs
for ten minutes and then stripped my clothing and proceeded to rape me…
There were hundreds of people in line when she walked out with
dishevelled hair and smudged lipstick. It was no good, not just for me
but her man as well. On top of that my girl was in line to see me,
because it was Valentine’s Day and I was living in the gallery for the
duration of the event – we were separated for five days, no
communication. So it really hurt her as well, as I guess the news of it
travelled through the line. When she came in she asked for an
explanation, and I couldn’t speak, so we both sat with this unexplained
trauma silently. It was painful.”
When asked what kind of connections he made with those who came to see him, Shia said “Almost
everyone who came in had
preconceived notions of what they were going
to experience, and as soon as Nastja Rönkkö brought them through the
curtain, everything changed.
I went from being a celebrity or object to
a fellow human. I was genuinely remorseful. It wasn’t manipulation, I
was heartbroken. People I’ve never met before came
in and loved on me
and with me. Some would hold my hand and cry with me, some would tell me
to ‘figure it out’ or to ‘be a man’.
I’ve never experienced love like
that; empathy, humanity.
Still, there were others who came in
with an agenda they couldn’t let go of. Some folks would come in, take
my bag off, pop off a selfie and bounce. That felt terrible.“
He later went on to discuss what the most useful criticism he has received is, to which he replied “Stop fucking around – Mom“.
There are a lot unanswered questions
about this meeting – how he was raped? Why he had a silent meeting with
Aimee Cliff, what’s really going on with Shia…and hopefully these
answers will come to light soon enough.
