Singer FKA Twigs sues Shia LaBeouf for physical, mental and emotional abuse

English singer-songwriter Singer FKA Twigs (Tahliah Debrett Barnett) is suing actor Shia LaBeouf for physical, emotional and mental abuse during their relationship.

Speaking to the New York Times, Twigs said his experience with LaBeouf was “the worst thing I’ve ever been through in my entire life.”

The New York Times said Twigs filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles.

The lawsuit alleges that the actor removed his seatbelt during a car trip that threatened to crash.

The lawsuit describes a time in the relationship when LaBeouf threatened to remove his seat belt and crash the car unless Twigs told him he loved him during a trip to the desert.

LaBeouf is believed to have made a stop at a nearby gas station after the singer pleaded with him to stop and let her out of the car.

When Twigs got out of the car and grabbed her bags, LaBeouf allegedly threw her against the car, yelling in her face forcing her back into the car.

Before this incident, she says she woke up one night to find LaBeouf suffocating her.

Speaking with New York Times ex-girlfriend LaBeouf, Karolyn Pho, she described similar allegations related to her relationship with the actor.

She claims that he pinned her to the bed while drunk and butted her until she bled.
The lawsuit also alleges that the actor knowingly gave the singer an STD.

LaBeouf told the Times that “many of these accusations are not true” and also said that he was not in a position to “defend any of my actions.”

He blamed his alcoholism and post-traumatic stress disorder.

“I owe these women the opportunity to air their statements publicly and accept responsibility for what I have done. As someone in recovery, I have to face almost daily reminders of the things I said and did when drinking,” she said.

“It has always been easy for me to accept responsibility when my behavior reflects badly on myself, but it is much more difficult to accept the knowledge that I may have caused great pain to others. I cannot rewrite history. I can only accept it and work. to be better in the future I am writing this as a sober member of a twelve step program and in therapy for my many failures.

“I have not been cured of my PTSD and alcoholism, but I am committed to doing what I have to do to recover, and I will forever mourn the people I may have harmed along the way.”

The couple met while filming Honey Boy, a movie LaBeouf wrote and Twigs started, they started dating after filming ended.

The couple dated for less than a year and ended things in May 2019 due to work schedules.

The lawsuit claims LaBeouf was overly affectionate at first and then became controlling.

Insist on the rules, including how many times you had to show affection in a day.

She claims that LaBeouf forced her to sleep naked and that he had a loaded gun next to the bed, the lawsuit claims that Twigs was afraid to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, in case LaBeouf fired.

The lawsuit mentioned that LaBeouf did not like how he spoke or looked at male waiters, so Twigs began to keep his gaze down when men spoke to him, the suit says.

The lawsuit details how LaBeouf began to isolate her so much that she began to doubt that her creative team and manager would not be able to communicate with her.

Twigs said she started seeing a therapist who helped her create a plan for her to leave.

She was packing up to leave in the spring of 2019 when LaBeouf arrived at her home and allegedly ‘violently grabbed’ her in front of her housekeeper.

He locked her in a room and yelled at her, the lawsuit says.

LeBeouf was never referred to the police because she feared it would harm her career and she thought authorities would not take the allegations seriously.

“I thought to myself, no one is ever going to believe me,” she told the New York Times.

“‘I am unconventional. And I am a person of color who is female.”

She says she wants to raise awareness of “the tactics abusers use to control you and take away your agency.”

“The whole time I was with him, he could have bought me a business plane ticket back to my four-story house in Hackney,” she said.

“It brought me so low, below me, that the idea of ​​quitting and having to work again seemed impossible.

“What I went through with Shia was the worst I’ve been through in my entire life. I don’t think people think it would happen to me. But I think that’s what happens. It can happen to anyone.”

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE – DO YOU NEED HELP?

If you are in danger now:

• Call the police on 111 or ask your friends’ neighbors to call you.
• Run outside and go where there are other people.
• Yell for help so your neighbors can hear you.
• Take the children with you.
• Don’t stop to buy anything else.
• If you are being abused, remember that it is not your fault. Violence is never okay

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• Shine, toll free national helpline from 9 am to 11 pm every day – 0508 744 633 www.2shine.org.nz
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• Shakti: Provides specialized cultural services for African, Asian and Middle Eastern women and their children. Crisis line 24/7 0800742584
• Not OK: information line 0800 456 450 www.areyouok.org.nz