The young star discovers their innate gift of performance or they have an image that all up. I'll play the name as a Mexican that crossed the border, became an American citizen and now just sits on the computer all day to watch your streams. I Concur producers and are very susceptible to mistreatment. Then the parents might abuse their power over the child, they might feel entitled to their money, or sometimes they're just jealous that their child is more successful than they ever were.

Shia LaBeouf's story follows a similar narrative, but recently we found out that it might all be a lie. A sensationalized narrative to not only make money, but try and protect him from his wrongdoings. Shia's downward spiral is different than most because to this day we have no idea what is real and what is a distraction from the truth. Stay hydrated of two: Starving Artists Shayna Sade and Jeffrey LaBeouf could never find an audience for their work, sending them straight into poverty.

As a family, his mother would end up selling fabrics and jewelry in a poverty-stricken area of Echo Park Los Angeles while his father, a former Vietnam veteran, would sell hot dogs and perform as a street clown to get by on top of their financial struggles. Shia's father was a convicted sex offender and a heroin addict, which was far from the ideal role model that Cheyenne needed growing up as an only child. As if life wasn't hard enough, his father was admitted into rehab when Shia was just nine years old, leaving him and his mother extremely vulnerable while living with his mother in a Los Angeles Motel Shia overheard a man r word her not being able to do anything about it at such a young age. This tragedy caused a great deal of anger to build in his young soul to this day: Shia sleeps with a gun under his pillow because of the incident stating I've always thought somebody was coming in my whole life His parents were too prideful to accept food stamps and Welfare Shia knew early on that he would need to find a way to make money for him and his family or steal to get what he wanted.

His first run-in with the law occurred in 1995 when he was only nine years old getting caught attempting to steal a pair of Nike Cortez shoes. Then a couple years later he also got caught trying to a Game Boy His parents knew he needed a creative Outlet to express himself spoiled up um Game Boy Pokemon from Kmart and he wrote that time too I was substitian for about six months two years after Pokemon test level um shot the fame where he also got caught trying to steal a Game Boy His parents knew he needed a creative Outlet to express himself and keep him out of trouble. So Shia turned to stand-up comedy which was a perfect fit for a kid known as the class clown amongst his peers performing at local La comedy clubs. At the age of 10, he instantly stood out thanks to his edgy adult sense of humor going on stage and picking apart the drunk men and women in the audience, often starting his set with hey, it's time for some jokes Shia thrived and stand up, but it wasn't going to pay his family's bills or get him the sneakers he wanted.

He needed to think bigger and that's exactly what he did on a trip to Malibu with his dad in 1996. Shia Met a kid wearing expensive clothing that he could only dream of affording Shia asked him what do you do which led to the kid responding with I'm an actor and that was all Shia needed to hear Shia began looking up talent agencies in the Yellow Pages calling them and pretending he was his own manager although they weren't buying the schtick. One of the agents was Charmed enough and she took a shot on Shia and signed him quickly, propelling his career and helping him earn small roles in commercials. Been tough, very tough.

Yeah, you kids are eating lots and lots of Oreos Yeah, what's that? He also landed some minor roles and X-Files Somehow he found a way to make it in the spotlight that his parents always desired with no formal acting or training whatsoever. After grinding smaller rolls for a few years, he would finally get his big breakthrough in the year 2000. Landing the lead role in the show Even Stevens on the Disney Channel and you're not shy I read somewhere for the Even Stevens At the addition, you scared the other actors who are waiting to audition by telling you got it wrapped up it's mine I wanted it so bad I would like walk around I was like listen man I don't know what you're auditioning for I already got the part you know and I did I eventually got it Shia played the role as Lewis who was viewed as immature, rude, lazy, selfish, carefree, and extremely mischievous. He concocts elaborate schemes and inventions to make his life easier.

They show as well as Lizzie McGuire where the first two Disney Channel live action shows to pave the way for the iconic early 2000s Disney Channel hits. Even Stevens was a smash success Shia would go on to win an Emmy Award for his role as Louis Stevens in 2003 and became a household name thanks to the show. With directors in the industry comparing his acting potential to stars like Tom Hanks and Gene Wilder The show would have gone on longer than three seasons, but Disney famously has the 65 rule where they will cancel a show no matter what after 65 episodes. Despite Shia having this big breakthrough, his life was far from glamorous.

He had to live closer to where the show was being filmed so he left his mother's house to go live with his father. He says his father was abusive both mentally and physically one time Jeffrey allegedly held a gun to Shia's head in a Vietnam flashback. On top of that, the two lived in a 45 dollar per night motel while he was filming. Even Stevens Disney Channel was known to pay their cast pennies compared to how popular the shows were, but whatever Shia was getting paid, he was using it to keep his family above water.

He was merely surviving riding the success of Even Stevens In April of 2003, Shaya's career would continue to reach New Heights with the release of the film Holes, The film generated 71.4 million dollars worldwide and would open the door for Shia to Blockbuster roles on the big screen. He started popping up as a tertiary character in a big film every year Dumb and Dumber Charlie's Angels iRobot Constantine Bobby This led to him earning lead roles in the Greatest Game Ever Played in Disturbia which grossed 118 million in worldwide box office, but one role was about to take him to Superstar Heights Transformers in 2007 Transformers Grossed 700 million dollars in global box office For those that don't know American Action films will often get worldwide those actors into Lifetime A-list status Shaya Did two of these films in one year, the second being Indiana Jones which did nearly 800 million Global Box office Transformers 2 did over 800 million in global box office Shia was on top of the world. His life appeared to be perfect in the public eye. He was beloved by everyone.

He successfully saved his family from generational poverty, and by 21 was arguably set for life. But unfortunately for Shia his past was beginning to creep up on him. Le Buff was arrested and spent two days in jail after attempting to stab a neighbor in Van Nuys In the very same year that Shia was hitting the red carpet with Megan Fox for the premiere of Transformers He would spend two nights in jail for attacking his neighbor with a deadly weapon, anger and alcoholism a result of his troubled childhood was starting to take over his life. Arrested in November of 2007 for Mr bigger criminal trespassing while refusing to leave a Walgreens he described the incident.

My logic was off to say the least. again. I'm on the sauce. By on the sauce, he means alcohol his go-to vice.

That would become a big problem. Later on, he was arrested on suspicion. Hollywood Sometimes people get friendly. Some people get sad, some people get aggressive.

It's like, um, I think it does different to a bunch of different people. Is it nuts? 11. He got involved in a brawl outside of a Vancouver bar. He was slowly starting to derail.

Like many of the child stars that came before him. he earned 15 million dollars for his role in the third Transformers movie. Money was no longer the motivation for him. He didn't need to grind anymore.

He decided to step away from the franchise and the millions of dollars it would have continued to produce. He started to chase roles that were more artistic and character driven. In June of 2012, he made a nude appearance in the music video piano. The video depicts a man and a woman locked in a never-ending cycle of addiction and desire.

Then just a few years later in 2014 Rob Cantor created a theatrical performance by the name of Shia LaBeouf The lyrics described Shia as a murderous cannibal. Shia makes an appearance at the end of the music video for this song ominously applauding in the audience all by himself, which would later turn into a viral meme. Now, this performance wasn't really meant it doesn't mean seriously, but the motivation behind it was unclear and overall just seemed to be pretty bizarre behavior for an A-list actor who was being deemed The Next Big Thing by Steven Spielberg Just a few years prior, it was in 2014. I Think this is like a quick hit of like um, attention for that much of efforts or like um, playing a lot of time with something like a project that makes the most like half your year or whatever.

I think that's kind of where this is at but I don't know, maybe I'm wrong The Next Big Thing by Steven Spielberg Just a few years prior, it was in 2014 where Shia was truly never the same. Up until now he had some arrests, some weird acting roles, but now people were really starting to question everything they thought they knew about him. It all started with this hashtag I am sorry Our exhibition, uh, would you mind taking the bag off? Could you take the bag off your head? Can I take the bag off your head Wow. Okay, it's you hi Saya I am sorry was hosted in Los Angeles in early 2014.

Shia was dressed in a suit with a bag over his head that read I am not famous anymore fans and Spectators paid to sit into a tiny empty Art Gallery where he was seated and one at a time they filed in and they were allowed to say whatever they wanted right to his face. Oddly enough, he didn't say anything back the entire day. all he did was sit there and cry. This exhibit was a follow-up to his strange red carpet appearance for the premiere of the erotic art film Nymphomaniac where he wore that exact same paper bag.

Conspiracy theorists said that this was an Illuminati embarrassment ritual. His fan said that it was genius performance art, but most people thought it was another story of a child star gone mad. This stunt came just months before his most famous arrest. Shia was at a local New York City Bar where he was pounding whiskey and watching the World Cup He stumbled into a New York Cabaret where Alan and Michelle Williams were performing.

LaBeouf was smoking cigarettes inside the theater and shouting obscenities. He even allegedly slapped Cummings butt as he walked by him during the performance and cops arrested him during intermission. At this point, nobody really knew why Shia was behaving like this. You seem to have gone crazy since the last time I saw you? Yeah yeah yeah.

I guess I have. but he opened up to Interview magazine after these Antics which changed. So what was the idea? was it to get on on the show Anyway, What the? Well this is like a dude I don't know people's perspective of him. The only thing my father gave me that was of any value to me is pain.

This was revealed by Shia in a 2014 interview on the darkness of his childhood. My greatest and my worst memories are with my father. All my major trauma and major celebration came from him. Shia was living the classic example of a child star who was manipulated and scarred by his parents.

Suddenly his Antics and public freakouts made sense. But Shia's closing statement of this interview was maybe too transparent. I've been a runner my whole life running from myself whether to movies or drinking and drugging or Calamity or whatever it is I've always been running I'm a dude who loves delusion. It's why I love being an actor I Never have to actually look at myself or be faced with my or take responsibility.

This statement is shockingly honest and self-aware would come back to haunt him years later. 2014 was also Shai's last major film Fury Alongside Brad Pitt which secured nearly 200 million dollars in the box office, he became too risky for Production Studios to work with not knowing when his next public Fiasco will be which was in 2015 when he was arrested for public intoxication in Austin Texas He also managed to outdo his previous meme with a new one. He filmed a 30-minute motivational speech in front of a green screen and posted it on YouTube in which the Internet had a field day with foreign. but his next art project was inspired by Donald Trump's inauguration.

This one would test Shia's sanity. Art Installation in: New York Just outside the Museum of the Moving Image, the project was called he Will Not Divide Us and the goal was to live stream every single day of Trump's first term as President, bringing people together in a time of division, chanting the phrase he Will Not Divide Us in front of a webcam set up outside the museum. Unfortunately for Shia, this project only lasted a couple of days before internet trolls and 4chan users would turn up in real life appearing on the live stream with the intention of pissing off the actor and trolling his project. which is exactly what they did.

Thank you! Jesus Realizing that people were just going to keep showing up and trolling his message Shia reimagined the project instead He put a he will not Divide this flag in the middle of nowhere with a 24-hour live stream so people can go online and look at it. Unfortunately, users were determined to ruin his projects for 10 hours to do it. they tracked Shia's most recent location using photos that he was tagged in on Instagram Then they analyzed wind patterns, the sounds of frogs singing in the background, and the constellations in the sky to figure out where this flag was waving. And in 10 hours they took down the flag, replaced it with a Maga hat and a Pepe the Frog shirt and trolled Shia off the internet for a while.

But before his exit we got some bars I think mighty that I'm balling slightly I say Amen I'm just amen he's chasing Elation and my occupation was patient who comes from below the basement from the pavement. Then I got an agent that I done made it past Tom Hanks replacement God Damn my life's amazing Shia Got married to his wife which seemed to calm him down for a little bit until he was arrested again in 2017. this time for public intoxication, disorderly conduct, and obstruction. He was sentenced to 100 hours of community service, one year probation, and was also court ordered to attend a drug rehab facility.

In this rehab, he was instructed to write and reflect on his life, which may have been just what Shia needed to dig himself out of the hole that he was in at the time. and you wrote this movie while in court. Ordered Rehab? Yes sir, Yeah, which is that did you say? Hey I got this time I'm going to be in here I'm going to do this. Was this something you set out to do? Well they said you have PTSD you got to start writing.

This is how you get to the solution. the only way out is through. So I started writing all these dark chapters you know of my life and it wound up being this the script form thing sent it to my friend became a movie. Honeyboy would eventually hit theaters in 2019, telling the story of Shai's childhood and his relationship with his father.

His self-reflections and court-ordered rehab had transformed into a full-length feature film, completely revitalizing his career that he thought was over. However, before moving forward with the script, he needed his dad's approval, which wasn't the easiest thing to do since he hadn't spoken to his father in nearly seven years. Initially, when he reached out to his dad about the script, he said that Mel Gibson would be playing him in the film, helping to convince his dad to give the movie. The Green Light Little did Jeffrey know this was a blatant lie and Shia would be taking on the role of his abusive father.

We weren't on good terms so I lied to him and told him hey, Mel Gibson is going to play you sign right here Honey Boy successfully got shy of his reputation back. There was never a doubt that he was a great actor, but this film made it seem like Shia reconciled with his troubled past and was ready to change for the better going forward. If you can tap into how you can use your suffering, help other people, that is maximum maximum. Joy I Always thought Joy was oh, I get this and then I'm happy or I do this and then I'm happy or I get her and then I'm happy or I make that and then I'm happier.

They respect me and then I'm happy or I Always thought happiness was to be acquired by the things I would gain from life. That's why I was always grabbing. If I knew early on that happiness actually is in me offering all of my suffering up for other people as some as an instructive thing or as something that could benefit man, then I maybe would have lived my life differently. Unfortunately, this Redemption only lasted temporarily as more harsh realities would get exposed.

One of Shai's co-stars on Honeyboy was an actress, singer-songwriter by the name of FKA Twiggs Shia's short marriage was already in murky Waters and the two would instantly hit it off. They started dating shortly after the filming of Honeyboy in 2018. Shia had a history of Rocky romantic relationships, yet this relationship turned out to be more toxic and dangerous than the rest, culminating in a lawsuit at the end of 2020 where FKA Twigs sued Shia for sexual battery, assault, and infliction of emotional distress. She would detail terrifying situations he put her in.

he was driving recklessly, removing his seatbelt and threatening to crash unless she professed her love for him. She also says that Shia gave her an STD when he knew he was infected FKA coming out also empowered pop singer Sia to come out as well, stating that she too had experienced abuse from Shia calling him a path logical liar People found old footage of Shia after an argument with his ex Mia goth saying that he was about to kill her if I just stayed there I'm a killer a Time Shia didn't address the allegations. Instead, he promoted his new movie Padre Pio we're making a film. uh me Abel Ferreira and Willem Dafoe were making a movie called Padre Pio about the great Padre Pio After that, we didn't hear from him until the film was completed.

Not only did Shia shift his Focus to this role, but he shifted his Focus to finding God through Christianity This film had a lot of publicity and it was during the mid-2022 roll out. Ashaya appeared on various podcasts and interviews where he kind of addressed the accusations. Though the news that had come out has been like I've been abusive to women and been shooting dogs and I've been willingly giving women STDs and like there's it's disgusting. It's depraved and when I look at this metoo environment, there's not a whole lot of dudes that are I was in something about the clip that was shown by the small clipboard, he says like uh, I was gonna do um dude I'm not gonna say taking accountability the bad: bad like Crash and Burn type it hurt a lot of people.

He admits to a lot of wrongdoings, nothing specifically, but both of these interviews Shia allowed himself to be extremely vulnerable. He admitted to the monster that he was. it's like a small clip, right? right? and sometimes you don't know. like you don't know the the context, the way that it's storytelling sometimes or or uh, like I I don't know enough about what was given there to be really given.

like any sort of like figures of speech or the way you're talking sometimes like things get super heated or whatever the and and maybe he says that because like of course he's gonna walk away 100 then right any man like if this ongoing was happening like it's a figure of speech sometimes like that and I I don't know enough that I don't like when these are made like this, especially when it's recorded like in Secrets it doesn't make sense. It's not. It's not fair I think it's trash being back with Mia and having their first daughter allowed him. He also admits to lying about his father like guys, guys guys, it's like if I told you like it.

oh my God Dude. Oh yeah, that house I was ended if I stayed in there guys I would have kill myself or something like that right? And then in context you get it like it was crazy or whatever the like. Does that make sense If I tell you if I did it like that and you have the context, you know what it means. It's like a dark place as like a cycle of dog.

right? an element. But of course I went out I went out of this figure of speech house right and then I didn't do that right. But then you get it that I wasn't a self-harmful at that point. So it's like the context matters a lot.

So I think having a small clip like that shown doesn't do anybody any favors with my dad I Want to hit my dad up? Now here's a man who I don't vilified on a grand scale I put all these in the street you know, uh and used him Juiced My dad is like this is the reason I'm foul out here. You know I'm come from this Wayward upbringing and you know my dad is the reason I'm such a you know he's a a biker and a wild man and a criminal and a an abusive about. and I and I wrote this narrative which was just nonsense. My dad was so loving to me my whole life fracture.

sure crooked, sure like wonky for sure but never was not loving which never was not there. He was always there, he was always there and I'd undoubt a World Press tour about how he was as a man. My dad never hit me, never spanked me once one time and the story that gets painted in Honeyboy is like this dude was like abusing his kid all the time. You know my Dad tried to keep me from smoking cigarettes.

That's when he spanked me. Honey Boy was literally his. Redemption Arc That got him into good graces with the public. He lied about the whole thing through his own father under the bus so that people would root for him again.

It's extremely honorable that Shia has come forward and admitted to his wrongdoings, but it justifies a lot of people's claims who said he was a manipulator and a liar in the past. it's very tough to realize what about Shia is real and what is being lied about for his benefit. This is why a lot of people in Hollywood just stay away from him. You just don't know what stories about him are true I mean Him admitting to the lies makes me even question all the information in this video.

He has admitted in the past that he loves not having to face the responsibility of his actions. All that we can hope for is for the sake of his family, his daughter. At this time, what he is saying is true. Hopefully his spiritual journey has earned him a new lease on life and maybe this time he is actually a changed man over the years and I knew nothing about this.

so I don't know it wasn't a bad video I think the child is showing the I think it was pretty decently made at least. but yeah, like I said I don't I don't really get with the clipper also I I don't agree with like the leaking of a like, um, privately or like, uh, recorded in secret small Clips It's very rare that a clip um I've agreed that whatever was said or done in that video is always black on white. Bad. it's just I don't I can't agree with it because a lot of things look and sound bad and it's just how it is like uh I I hate this I'm like you know I'm gonna I'm gonna.

this was on fire on purpose in context in a figure of speech. I'm gonna post it online like dude, it's off with that I think that's so trash I think it's trash I don't know why people do that yo this is X x on the video I'm going through my voice as well. That is Anyone knows that boy I don't know. he's just so soy.

Anyone knows that boy I don't know, he's just so sorry.