Shia LaBeouf is attributing his arrest in New Orleans final week to his concern of ‘Huge homosexual individuals.’
In an interview with YouTuber Andrew Callaghan launched on Saturday, the 39-year-old actor defined what led to his arrest amid town’s Mardi Gras celebrations.
“After I’m like standing on my own and three gays are subsequent to me, touching my leg, I get scared,” he stated. “I’m sorry. If that’s homophobic, then I’m that. Yeah.”
“I’ll be trustworthy with you, huge homosexual individuals are scary to me, LaBeouf added.
A consultant for LaBeouf didn’t instantly return a request for remark.
The actor, finest recognized for his starring function in “Transformers” and Disney Channel’s “Even Stevens,” was arrested in New Orleans final week and accused of hitting two individuals exterior of a Royal Avenue enterprise amid the celebrations, based on police.
“LaBeouf then reportedly assaulted one other individual — punching him within the nostril,” police stated in an announcement final week. “LaBeouf was once more held down till police arrived.”
It’s unclear what precise circumstances led to the incident.
However within the interview with Callaghan, the actor appeared to recommend he had an altercation with a homosexual individual or was irritated by homosexual individuals’s presence close to him.
“I’m good with homosexual — be homosexual over there, although,” he stated. “Don’t be homosexual in my lap.”
“That’s why. I used to be drunk and it’s Mardi Gras. So, all the pieces I’m saying is nonsense,” he added.
LaBeouf was arrested upon his launch from the hospital that day for therapy “of unknown accidents.” He was charged with two counts of straightforward battery, in accordance authorities.
Final week was not his first run in with the regulation or with making bigoted remarks.
LaBeouf was arrested in 2017 on suspicion of public drunkenness, The Related Press reported. LaBeouf made racist remarks to police upon his arrest, the AP reported. The actor later apologized, citing his dependancy as a wrestle, and the general public drunkenness allegations had been dropped.
He was sued in 2020 by his ex-partner, British singer FKA Twigs, who accused him choking her and knowingly giving her a sexually transmitted illness. The case was settled out of court docket final yr.
