March 9, 2026

Trainwreck: The Self-Destruction of Shia LaBeouf

Trainwreck: The Self-Destruction of Shia LaBeouf
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Season 1

From Disney Channel golden boy to Hollywood's most chaotic wild card, the rise, fall, and relentless reinvention of Shia LaBeouf is a story Hollywood wishes it could keep quiet.

In this Exposed:Original episode, Jim Chapman dives deep into the unbelievable story of Shia LaBeouf — the only child of a heroin-addicted clown father and a struggling Jewish artist mother who grew up broke in Echo Park, witnessed unimaginable trauma at home, and clawed his way out by doing stand-up at age ten just to eat.

By 14 he was Louis Stevens on Even Stevens, snagging a Daytime Emmy. Then came Holes, the Transformers empire, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and blockbuster money most kids could only dream of.

But the higher he climbed, the harder the crash. Multiple arrests for public meltdowns — a $10 million abuse lawsuit from FKA Twigs (later dropped), the on-again-off-again marriage to Mia Goth that produced a daughter before quietly ending in 2025. And then… New Orleans Mardi Gras 2026….

Timestamps
03:09 Early Chaos and Street Performances
10:44 Rise to Fame and Early Success
13:02 Teenage Stardom and Relationships
14:36 First Arrests and Consequences
17:27 Major Success and Personal Struggles
29:33 Turbulent Relationships and Public Incidents
32:06 Lawsuit and Public Outcry
47:02 Blacklisted
48:08 2026 New Orleans Mardi Gras

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Hey, everyone, welcome back. I'm your host, Jim Chapman, and

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I am bringing you an exposed original series episode and

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I'm gonna be going back to my roots a little

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bit with this one, and I'm going to tell you

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the story of the rich and famous and focus on

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film stars Shia Labuff. Now, there's a reason that I

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decided to do this episode, and that is a very

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recent event over Mardi Gras in New Orleans where Shia

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was involved in several bar fights. He was arrested. More

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on that later, but it definitely got me digging more

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into this guy. Now, I did know that Shi Labuff

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had a history, if you will, of this type of thing,

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but until I really dove into his post, I didn't

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realize how bad it really was. Shia, the star of

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the Transformer series, Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, Dysturbia

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Holes and many others, has fallen completely off the rails,

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in my opinion. So we're gonna get into his story today,

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and I'm gonna give you a history on Shi Labuff

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that you may not actually be familiar with. And for Shia,

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this started out in nineteen eighty six when he was

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born in Los Angeles, California. Now. He was the first

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and only child of his parents, Shana and Jeffrey lebuff

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And he was named after his paternal grandfather. And I

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really like the name Shia. And it's interesting that Shia

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means gift of God in Hebrew. Now. His mother was

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a ballet dancer. She was an artist. She was a performer.

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And his dad was a Vietnam vet. Was a rolling stone. Really,

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he was all over the place. He did whatever he

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had to do to earn money. He was a radio clown,

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he was a hot dog vendor, a circus performer, karate instructor,

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drug dealer. His parents really embraced what you would term

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the hippie lifestyle, so Shia in those early years. He

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grew up in what is known as the Echo Park

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area of Los Angeles. This is a working class, diverse

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area of LA where people pretty much loved paycheck to

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paycheck and the labbuffs. They were no different. By the

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time Shi was three years old, he would already realize

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things at his house pretty chaota. His dad allegedly suffered

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from PTSD from Vietnam, and he was often absent from

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that household. He was chasing band gigs or he was

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dealing drugs. Hi would recall later remembering many instances of

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his parents fighting inside the household, and he would recall

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that it was primarily over money. And it was also

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around this time, at the age of three years old,

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that Shi would begin performing as a way of helping

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his family with the bills. He would dress up as

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a clown and serve as a street performer for tips,

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and he would sell hot dogs and snow cones on

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street corners, just whatever this guy could do to make

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money at three years old. Now, sadly, this did not

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help stave off those arguments between his parents, and in

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nineteen eighty nine, when Shi was still just three years old,

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they separated. Now, from the ages of four through eight,

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not much changed, and as a matter of fact, things

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would get even worse. The family continued to struggle financially

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and his father would sink deeper into a heroine and

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alcohol addiction. Now his father would be in and out

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of rehab. He would even bring Shia to his AA

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meetings at a very young age, and Shia would later

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describe his father as quote tough as nails, but would

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also describe him as very abusive. During this point in

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his life both mentally, physically and also emotionally. He even

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had a situation during this point where his father had

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a flashback from Vietnam allegedly and pointed a loaded shotgun

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at Shaia, threatening to kill him. Now, he would continue

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to street perform during this time, and he would provide

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like a focus on his comedic aspect of his personality,

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and his talent would really start to take shape even

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at this very young age. Now, in nineteen ninety five,

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at the age of nine, he and his mother, they

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would get evicted from their home in Echo Park and

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they would leave there and they would go to Tuanga, California.

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This is in the San Fernando Valley, and this area

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was a very tough area. It was known actually as

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the biker capital of the world. The big biker gang

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there was known as the West Side Crazies. So there

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were several things that when sideways in Shia's life. Outside

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of that eviction at the young age of nine years old,

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his first arrest would occur. At this very young age,

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he apparently admired his neighbors Nike Cortes shoes so much

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so that one day he steals them from his neighbor's home.

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The neighbor costs police and Shia is taken into custody

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for about six hours and then he gets released. I mean,

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he's nine years old. What are you going to do

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with him? Right? So at this point the hope was

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maybe this would scare him straight. And also the same year, y'all,

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nineteen ninety five, while his father is in rehab, Shia

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overhears his mother allegedly being raped. Now, during this rape,

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he hid under his bed, which he would say later

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and I fully believe this created almost a PTSD response

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in his brain, and he would say to this day

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that he feels an enormous amount of guilt over hiding

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under that bed during this rape, which I mean, he's

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nine years old, y'all, what could he have done? And

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truth be told, it probably would have made the situation

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worse if that were even possible. But I totally get

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the guilt. And this is an extremely formidable time in

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one's life, and that really fucked with him, for lack

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of a better word. You ever hear the phrase show

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me a boy at nine, and I'll show you a

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man at twenty nine. These years they shape you mentally,

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and so far it isn't looking good for Shia. So

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a couple of years later, in nineteen ninety seven, at

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the age of eleven, Shia is arrested again, this time

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for stealing a Pokemon game boy from a local kmart.

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He gets detained briefly and then he's released again. At

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this point, he's eleven years old. You really can't do

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much about it. Now. Things would start to turn around

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for the better for Shia after this incident. He had

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a friend and that friend lands a job as an

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extra on a TV show, and he was kind of

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enamored by that, and he figured, hey, I can do

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that shit. So at the age of eleven, he would

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pick up the Yellow Pages and he would start calling

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agents and get this, he would pretend to be quote

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Shia Labuff's manager to get an agent to represent him

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at eleven years old. Now interesting side note on this.

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He would say later that he learned how to talk

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to these agents and pretend to be Shia Labuff's manager

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by watching his dad and these other guys communicate in

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those alcoholics anonymous meetings. He would go with his dad,

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as I told you, So, my point there is you

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just never know where you may pick up a skill

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right now, apparently this worse. Of course they knew that

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this kid was pretending to be a manager, but they

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got such a kick out of it, like, yeah, come

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on in, have Shia come in for an interview. So

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at the age of twelve, he actually lands his first

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acting gig and he makes his film debut in a

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very low budget holiday film that was called The Christmas Path.

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In addition to that role, that same year, he also

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has small parts in several NBC shows and Disney TV movies.

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So things are looking up for Shi. He's working for

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some really big production companies and by thirteen years old,

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the roles don't slow down. They keep coming. He had

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roles in The X Files Suddenly Susan, both very popular

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network shows back in nineteen ninety nine. Now, all of

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these roles they are bit parts, but he was honing

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his skills. He was earning his stripes in the acting field,

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and this is something he would take great pride in

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later on in life. So by late nineteen ninety nine,

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shy skills in persistence they really pay off when at

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the age of thirteen, he lands the starring role in

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a Disney Channel pilot of a new show called Even

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Stevens Beans, How did you get in here? Beans?

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Is like that that policeman in Terminator too. You know

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what I'm talking about.

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I swear he goes liquid.

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He can fit that through cracks in windows, underdoors, through

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little key holes.

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I'm hungry, Let's get it sandwich. And that show would

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absolutely kind of pull him into stardom. The show would

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provide a very steady income for the entire Labuffe family. Right,

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Shia was actually making thirty two thousand dollars a month.

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This thirteen year old, who just a few years prior

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had got evicted from his mother's apartment with his mother obviously,

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was now making nearly four hundred thousand dollars a year

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guaranteed as long as he's a part of that show.

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So during the ages of fourteen and seventeen, this is

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from two thousand to two thousand and three, these were

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really breakout years for Shia. Even Stevens runs for three seasons,

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that's sixty five episodes, and he would win numerous acting awards,

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including an Emmy Award and the Emmy goes to Gotta

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Love the Disney Channel Shia lah Booth.

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Oh my god, sixteen got an Emmy.

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What the hell?

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Wow, wow, wow, I don't know. Oh my oh my god,

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I don't know what we think.

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I don't know how to breathe.

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I oh my god, oh my god.

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This is absolutely clable with even Stevens. I'm so happy.

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I haven't gotten the wrap up yet.

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I'm just kind of stalling.

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Oh my god, this is crazy. There's the wrapping up there.

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An even teen, love would blossom because the girls, they

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would start to take notice. And in two thousand and two,

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at the age of sixteen, he even goes out on

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a date with another Disney Channel actress rising to start

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them and you may have heard of her, Hillary Duff. Now,

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as the story goes, Hillary, who was fourteen years old

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at the time, was the star of Lizzie McGuire and

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the sixteen year old Shia. He goes out on a

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single date to a sushi restaurant and although it was

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a nice date, both would describe later that there was

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just no chemistry there between the two, so it was

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just a one time thing. But he is getting a

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lot of attention during this time, and he dated several

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fellow actresses and even Colie Williams, who was a singer

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for the teen Girl group three LW big group during

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that time, the Cheetah Girls, another big group she sang

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for both. He started dating her and she was also

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big time back in those days. So he's a teenager,

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he's rich, and this is tougher to deal with than

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you may think when you come from nothing, and those

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issues would start to surface in the near future. So

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by two thousand and four, at eighteen years old, Shi

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transitions to big budget movie roles. In two thousand and five,

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at nineteen, he stars in a golf movie. This is

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called The Greatest Game Ever Played, and he played the

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role of a golf caddie. And it is on the

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set of this movie that he meets the daughter of

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a movie producer and her name was China Bresner. She

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was also eighteen and they would date for three years

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until two thousand and seven. Now, unlike subsequent relationships, this

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relationship seemed very stable. Later Shi would say the only

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reason they really ever quit dating wasn't love related, it

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was his career demands. But these three years were not

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without drama completely. In two thousand and five, just a

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year into that relationship, Shia is arrested for the first time.

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As an adult when, according to reports, he threatens his

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neighbor with a kitchen knife over a dispute over a

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parking spot in Los Angeles. Now, the neighbor pulls a

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gun in response. Allegedly, police get called, and although Shy

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claimed self defense, he was arrested for assault with a

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deadly weapon. He stays in jail for like twenty four hours,

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and then the charges mysteriously get dropped. He was nineteen

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years old at this time, so professionally, Shaya's star continues

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to rise, and I mean fast, like a rocket ship,

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and by two thousand and seven, at twenty one years old,

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he finally does it when he lands the starring role

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in a movie called Dysturbia. He also lands a starring

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role in a movie you may have heard of called Transformers.

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Both of these in two thousand and seven, and these

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two films alone gross over seven hundred and nine million

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dollars at the box office, and at this point in time,

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shi Labuff becomes one of the biggest movie stars on

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planet Earth. It's also in two thousand and seven that

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when seemingly everything is going right in his personal life,

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that his private life seemed to be falling apart. On

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November four of two thousand and seven, at the age

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of twenty one, yet another arrest when while in Chicago, Illinois,

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Shia gets arrested for misdemeanor trespassing after refusing to leave

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a Walgreens when asked by security. Reportedly, he was shit

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face drunk and he spends two days in jail over

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the incident. Now, those charges were later dropped when he

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completes community service. Also in this year, he is rumored

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to have dated Rihanna. Now, the story goes they were

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set up through a mutual friend. They went on a

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single date in Beverly Hills, but again they didn't have

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any chemistry. But interesting fact on Rihanna, y'all, I didn't

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realize that Rihanna is one of the richest females in

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the world. Do y'all know? Her net worth today is

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over one point four billion with a B dollars. Now

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that's a result of not her music career, which is

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what I would have assumed, but her cosmetics brand primarily.

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I mean that chick is balling. Just took me by

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surprise when I was doing my research on this podcast.

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But back to it. Two thousand and seven, highs and

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lows for Shia, and in two thousand and eight, those

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highs would continue when a Transformer sequel as well as

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an Indiana James sequel both drop at the box office

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and combined generate over eight hundred and thirty six million

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dollars in revenues. So Shia's last four film jaw combined

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are responsible for a staggering nearly two billion dollars. Now,

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this guy is absolutely on fire at twenty two years old,

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regardless of what's going on in his personal life. Behind

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the scenes, it also comes out that he was involved

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romantically with his co star in the Transformer series, allegedly

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Megan Fox. So professionally never better for Shia, but the

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loews keep coming for him as well in two thousand

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and eight. So on July twenty seventh of two thousand

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and eight, at three o'clock am, shy is four pickup

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collides with another vehicle while he was attempting to make

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a left turn, and the impact cause Shia his truck

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to roll over. Police arrive at the scene. He's reportedly

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exhibiting a lot of signs of being intoxicated. However, he

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does refuse a blood alcohol test and he is pretty injured.

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He had some head injuries, some knee injuries, and his

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hand was actually so severely injured that he had to

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have surgery. He also had a female passenger who fortunately

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just had minor injuries, and as I said, he refused

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to take the blood alcohol tests, so subsequently he automatically

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loses his license for a year. But you can see

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the warning signs here, right. It seems like the more

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successful he gets, the more he kind of falls off

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the rails behind the scenes. This is the point y'all,

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the point in Shy's history where everything seems to start

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going downhill in twenty ten. In twenty eleven, his final

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to what you consider big movies hit the theaters. First was

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a continuance of the movie Wall Street. It was called

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Wall Street Money Never Sleeps, and it's a moderate success.

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Gros is about one hundred and thirty five million dollars,

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but the budget on that film was only seventy million,

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so it made some money. I mis doubled its money there.

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But then Transformers Dark of the Moon premieres and this

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becomes the second highest grossing film of twenty eleven. Get

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ready for this box office total one point two billion

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with a B dollars. Those were the highs of those

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years for Shy, and now on the lows, he gets

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in a b at a bar in Sherman Oaks, California.

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He gets handcuffed in that incident, but not arrested, and

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then in October of twenty eleven, another bar fight, this

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time in Canada while filming a movie. And this is

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also the year he meets a stylist on the set

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of a movie called Nefomaniacs of All Names, and that

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person's name is Mia Golf and she would play a

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major aspect in his life ever since, and will get

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into more of that in a bit so. Heading into

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twenty thirteen, Shy wants to test himself on Broadway. He

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wanted to do some live acting, and he lands apart

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opposite of Alec Baldwin. Now he had been preparing for

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this role for two years. Alec Baldwin's role was initially

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going to be played by al Pacino, which for the

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past two years Shi had been preparing and renting with

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al pa. However, some scheduling conflicts on Pacino's side forces

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him to decommit from that role, and Baldwin stepped in

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really shortened at us like two weeks before this Broadway

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show was gonna go live, and Shia he was intense

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in this role, like he was for all of his

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roles in side note Quickly, Shia took this acting shit serious,

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so serious that in fact, one character he was playing,

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he felt like the dude should be missing a tooth,

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so he pulled his own freaking tooth out. That's how

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serious he took his craft. Now, Baldwin, he was a

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seasoned actor and reportedly at the time he found Shia

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just way too intense. They just didn't geehaul very well,

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so much so that well, I'm gonna let Shi tell

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you the story. Listen to this clip from the David

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Letterman Show.

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And he got fired? What what? What did you get

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fired from? What did you get fired?

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I was doing a play out here, I got fired.

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Fromm Is this the thing with Alec Baldwin.

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That's the thing with Baldwin. Yeah, who's a buddy of yours.

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This is good to be here on April Fools with you.

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No, I'll tell you something.

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Alec Baldwin has been such a good friend, not just

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to me but to the show.

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And he was going.

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Way back like and he's a good dude. He's a

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good dude, and.

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The show is terrific and tremendous actor and one of

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those guys when you go to see him, oh my

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god on the screen, you're just so happy he's there.

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Now, what did you do to him?

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I think, I think, what you guy?

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I'm pretty passionate and impulsive, and he's a very passionate.

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Individual as well.

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And I think you know, that impulsiveness and that passion

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makes for you know, some fireworks.

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This was This was a stage play.

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It was a stage play. It is a stage a

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great stage play.

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What is it called.

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It's called Orphans Orphans?

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Had you orpheus orphans Orphans? Had you done a.

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Broadway production before? Never in my life?

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No? So now tell us how you felt going into this?

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Felt pretty strong going in, actually looking forward to it,

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looking forward to the show.

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Yeah, yeah, I liked it a lot.

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Yeah.

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I read something that Tom Hanks said, who's also opening

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tonight in a Broadway play. He said, television is for writers,

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film is for directors, Stages for actors.

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Yeah you feel that way?

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Yeah? Yeah?

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So why why did you get fired?

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Uh?

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I think I think because I think because me and

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Alec had tension as men, not his artists, but his men.

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I think in a room that became a hard thing

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to deal with, you know, and when you're when you

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got tension as men, that's tough.

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Till July.

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I think, you know, it's cool for increments, but I

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think to do that for a long period of time

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now tough.

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Had you known how I liked before I met Alec briefly?

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Yeah, before we started, right?

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And how would you describe your relationship with him now?

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I hope it's pretty good.

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I mean he's a pretty he's a great actor, and

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I wish him the best of love.

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Now, can I suggest a couple of scenarios?

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Sure?

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Uh?

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I like went to the producers and said, I can't

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take it another day?

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Fire him.

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I think that I think that might have been what happened.

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Really really yeah, No, I just made that up. How

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could that be what happened?

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Others?

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It's like it's like this for the tourn No, Uh,

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what creative differences?

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I think that's what you got to say as sort

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of a business savvy answer for what what what actually happened?

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Now, there were there was a time there was a

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guy Jeremy Piven who was doing this.

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Wasn't that?

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This is not that Jeremy Pivens said he came down

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with mercury poisoning for getting too much.

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Nice right now.

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No, this wasn't that. I would have died to.

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Do this show with mercury poisoning.

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Yeah.

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Uh. And you can't go back now, can't you?

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No?

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No, No, they got the show they need, They got

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the show.

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Got they got another guy in there. Who'd they run in?

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A great actor? Actually they didn't run in nobody. He's

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a great actor's name? Is Ben Foster's terrific in the show?

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Also, now, would you consider doing another play?

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I would? Yeah?

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And you also went to a performance of the show

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set right down set right down front.

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Was the only ticket that I could get? Actually really.

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Yea? Now is that is that an interference to your

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former actors the guys?

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Oh geez, there he is.

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I don't.

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I hope not.

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That wasn't my intention.

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Honestly, I've been part of the play for three years

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and I showed up as a fan.

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Now, if I were to arrange a reunion with you

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and Alec Baldwin, would you be up for that?

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Or is this gone? Is this scorched earth.

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I mean, I mean, I think that'd be a tough

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one to pull off. Man, I mean, I'm all for it,

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you know, but we're punches thrown, no, No, punches thrown.

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No.

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Well, I don't know what to say, because I admire

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your work. I don't know you as well as I

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know Alec. But Alec to me is the guy. He

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is the guy, and I'd like to see this reconciled somehow.

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Here it is right here, Alec. I think you're awesome.

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Man.

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That's it, you know, that's it. That's it. That's yeah.

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So, I mean, Shy played it off well, but with

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problems off the set and now having problems with other actors,

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especially major actors like Alec Baldwin, he is not doing

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himself any favors. And I misspoke a little bit earlier

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when I said he would not make any more big films.

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There was one more when he started opposite of Brad

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pitt in Scott Eastwood, which is Clint Eastwood's son. Incidentally,

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if you don't know, he started a movie called Fury

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with them, and there was an incident on this set

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known as the spitting incident, which Eastwood detailed to GQ magazine,

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and Scott Eastwood said that in this scene, he meaning Eastwood,

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was supposed to chew tobacco and spit it on the

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back of a tank. I mean it was a war movie,

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so I'm talking a tank, a war tank. Well, in

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this paint a good picture of how Shi would get

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into his characters, how deep he would get into them.

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Eastwood spits on this tank and Labuff loses his shit.

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He considered it very disrespectful, almost like Eastwood was spitting

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on the flag. Because he was so in the zone

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of his character. They actually almost came to blows, and

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Brad Pitt, of all people, had to break it up.

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Shi would say later he did not realize it was

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written into the Scrupt later on, so when he read

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the Scrupt, he didn't see a tobacco spit aspect of

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that scene, and he thought Eastwood was just being totally disrespectful. Now,

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this is also the very movie where he pulled his

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own tooth out, incidentally, that I told you about earlier.

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So he's twenty eight at this point and it's in

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two thousand fourteen. In that same year, yet another arrest

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went on June twenty six of twenty fourteen, he is

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arrested at Studio fifty fourth Theater in New York during

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a play. He gets charged with disorderly conduct, criminal trespass,

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and harassment for slapping an actor by the name of

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Alan Cummings on stage in that production in the middle

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of the show. Mind you and witnesses would describe Shi

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as totally wasted, drunk before the show even started. He

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spends the night in jail, and he sentenced eventually to

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alcohol treatment and anger management for that incident. So let's

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go to twenty fifteen and remember that stylust that I

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00:28:49.799 --> 00:28:55.359
mentioned earlier that Shi met while filming Nefomaniac. Well, they

472
00:28:55.400 --> 00:28:59.240
had been dating ever since, on again, off again, of course,

473
00:28:59.319 --> 00:29:02.759
but they have been now. When they met, Shia was

474
00:29:02.839 --> 00:29:07.200
much older, he was twenty six, she was eighteen. So

475
00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:13.160
in twenty fifteen, she's with Shia as he's filming in Germany.

476
00:29:13.720 --> 00:29:16.759
It's one of those on again times for them, and

477
00:29:16.799 --> 00:29:22.079
they have a very public altercation that actually gets captured

478
00:29:22.160 --> 00:29:25.720
on video. The couple is seen exiting a taxi in

479
00:29:25.799 --> 00:29:31.680
the situation is obviously heated. Mia grabs Shai's backpack and

480
00:29:31.799 --> 00:29:35.480
refuses to give it back, and you can hear Shia

481
00:29:35.519 --> 00:29:39.799
in this video tell her quote, please give me my backpack.

482
00:29:40.079 --> 00:29:42.119
I don't want to touch you. I don't want to

483
00:29:42.200 --> 00:29:45.440
hit you. I don't want to be aggressive, but you're

484
00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:49.119
pushing me right now unquote. When this has said, he

485
00:29:49.160 --> 00:29:54.359
appeared drunk. Eventually he walks away. Then a few months later,

486
00:29:54.880 --> 00:30:00.640
in October of twenty fifteen, he is arrested again in Austin,

487
00:30:00.799 --> 00:30:07.839
Texas for public intoxication and he was reportedly exhibiting very

488
00:30:07.880 --> 00:30:11.599
aggressive behavior in that incident. Moving on from there, things

489
00:30:11.599 --> 00:30:16.519
are relatively quiet for Shia until October of twenty sixteen,

490
00:30:17.119 --> 00:30:21.599
when he marries Mea Golf. In twenty seventeen, there was

491
00:30:21.640 --> 00:30:26.839
a big downfall for Shia. Apparently marriage didn't settle him down.

492
00:30:27.440 --> 00:30:31.359
In January of that year, he's arrested for assault in Queens,

493
00:30:31.440 --> 00:30:36.319
New York. In July of twenty seventeen, he's arrested in Savannah, Georgia,

494
00:30:36.759 --> 00:30:41.799
for public intoxication after getting into an altercation with a stranger.

495
00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:45.839
He tried to bump a cigarette from once again anger

496
00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:50.960
management substance abuse treatment. So in twenty eighteen, Mea and

497
00:30:51.160 --> 00:30:56.440
Shia they got problems. They filed for divorce. That was

498
00:30:56.559 --> 00:31:01.319
reported as amicable, and he starts day his co star

499
00:31:01.519 --> 00:31:05.160
on the film Honeyboy, and her name was to Leah

500
00:31:05.400 --> 00:31:11.160
Barnett and she's also known as f KA Twigs or

501
00:31:11.400 --> 00:31:15.960
just Twigs, and they date for approximately nine months, which

502
00:31:16.160 --> 00:31:21.480
Twigs would describe later as an intense honeymoon period followed

503
00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:26.200
by escalating controlling behavior. They officially split in May of

504
00:31:26.240 --> 00:31:31.039
twenty nineteen, and in twenty twenty, he actually reconciles with Mia.

505
00:31:31.519 --> 00:31:35.599
He is the person he in twenty eighteen filed for

506
00:31:35.720 --> 00:31:39.359
divorce from, and at this point in time, Shi Labuff's

507
00:31:39.480 --> 00:31:44.880
life is an absolute fucking mess. In June of twenty twenty,

508
00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:50.000
he's arrested yet again when he allegedly steals a man's

509
00:31:50.039 --> 00:31:54.160
hat and gets into a fight in Los Angeles. In

510
00:31:54.200 --> 00:31:58.440
that case, he's charged with misdemeanor battery and petty thuff

511
00:31:58.720 --> 00:32:02.640
and for those charges a diversion program that actually keeps

512
00:32:02.640 --> 00:32:06.839
it off his official record. But in December of twenty twenty,

513
00:32:07.720 --> 00:32:13.000
that is when the bombshell of his life drops when

514
00:32:13.160 --> 00:32:18.480
Twigs files a lawsuit in La County Court. It's really bad.

515
00:32:18.920 --> 00:32:25.160
It alleges sexual battery, assault, emotional distress, gross neglect, and

516
00:32:25.279 --> 00:32:28.160
y'all know how our roll. I have that lawsuit in

517
00:32:28.200 --> 00:32:30.279
front of me, so I'm going to review it for

518
00:32:30.319 --> 00:32:32.839
you now, and I'm going to start with the facts

519
00:32:32.880 --> 00:32:37.279
of the case in this lawsuit, which reads. Taliah first

520
00:32:37.359 --> 00:32:41.519
met Labuff while filming the motion picture Honeyboy in early

521
00:32:41.559 --> 00:32:44.680
summer of twenty eighteen, a film in which both had

522
00:32:44.799 --> 00:32:48.839
lead roles. When shooting on the picture rapped till later

523
00:32:48.880 --> 00:32:52.759
that year, the two began a roemantic relationship. Talia was

524
00:32:52.759 --> 00:32:56.680
invulnerable and sensitive state at the time. She had recently

525
00:32:56.880 --> 00:32:59.920
ended a four year engagement and was recovering from how

526
00:33:00.039 --> 00:33:03.680
having painful tumors removed from her uterus. Within a week

527
00:33:03.799 --> 00:33:07.880
or two of dating, Labuff dramatically professed his love for her.

528
00:33:08.079 --> 00:33:11.880
During the first few months of a relationship, Labuff restrained

529
00:33:11.960 --> 00:33:16.319
himself to over the top displays of affection, eventually winning

530
00:33:16.400 --> 00:33:20.839
to Leah's trust. Once Labeff had gained her trust in confidence,

531
00:33:21.119 --> 00:33:25.519
her living nightmare began. Starting in or around October of

532
00:33:25.559 --> 00:33:28.640
twenty eighteen, Labeuff convinced her to go live with him

533
00:33:28.720 --> 00:33:33.319
in his La home. Once she moved in, Labeff regularly

534
00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:37.680
exhibited frequent rage and bouts of jealousy toward her on

535
00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:41.519
a continual basis. He aggressively accused her of dwelling on

536
00:33:41.640 --> 00:33:46.200
her former fiance, a well known actor named Robert Pattison.

537
00:33:46.400 --> 00:33:51.039
Of course, that is everybody all knows the Star of Twilight.

538
00:33:51.279 --> 00:33:55.119
He also accused her of rushing him into a relationship.

539
00:33:55.200 --> 00:34:00.160
Leabuff would escalate the most inconsequential disagreements, for example, for

540
00:34:00.200 --> 00:34:04.279
a matter of taste and art, to apocalyptic levels, often

541
00:34:04.279 --> 00:34:07.079
forcing her to stay up all night while he verbally

542
00:34:07.160 --> 00:34:10.159
berated her for hours on end about her supposed lack

543
00:34:10.239 --> 00:34:13.800
of taste. Labuff would take something as innocent as her

544
00:34:13.920 --> 00:34:16.719
kissing another man on the cheek in a music video

545
00:34:16.920 --> 00:34:20.159
or being polite to a waiter as nothing less than

546
00:34:20.239 --> 00:34:24.840
betrayal and an assault on his manhood and an existential

547
00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:29.440
threat to their relationship. Labuff would literally count the kisses

548
00:34:29.519 --> 00:34:32.039
she would give him on a given day and brate

549
00:34:32.159 --> 00:34:35.239
her she fell short of a target number. He would

550
00:34:35.360 --> 00:34:38.199
verbally assault her if he placed his hand in her

551
00:34:38.280 --> 00:34:41.559
lap and she failed to reciprocate or place her hand

552
00:34:41.679 --> 00:34:44.519
on top of his. He would end their relationship on

553
00:34:44.599 --> 00:34:49.280
the slightest grievance, and then mus immediately resurface desperate to

554
00:34:49.400 --> 00:34:53.920
resume it, Labuff suffered recurring periods of delusion, wherein he

555
00:34:54.079 --> 00:34:57.480
armed himself with firearms and on the belief that gang

556
00:34:57.559 --> 00:35:00.000
members were going to break down the door in any minute,

557
00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:03.880
going so far as to sleep with guns. She would

558
00:35:03.880 --> 00:35:06.679
be trapped in the share bed for hours at a time,

559
00:35:06.760 --> 00:35:09.119
without the ability to even get up to get to

560
00:35:09.159 --> 00:35:12.079
the bathroom for fear she will be shot by the

561
00:35:12.159 --> 00:35:16.639
Labuff should he wake up suddenly upon her return, Labbas's

562
00:35:16.679 --> 00:35:21.480
relentless mental and verbal assault and mistreatment of her eventually

563
00:35:21.519 --> 00:35:25.679
turned into physical violence. Labeuff committed physical attacks against her

564
00:35:25.719 --> 00:35:29.960
on multiple occasions, each resulting in personal injuries, not the

565
00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:34.480
least of which was labuff knowing transmission of serious disease,

566
00:35:34.920 --> 00:35:38.039
which had forever altered the course of her life. When

567
00:35:38.079 --> 00:35:40.719
she was living with the Labuff in his la home,

568
00:35:40.880 --> 00:35:43.880
she remained in constant fear due to the threatening presence

569
00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:48.000
of loaded firearms. Beginning in November of twenty eighteen, Labuff

570
00:35:48.079 --> 00:35:51.679
insisted on keeping his front door unlocked and sleeping with

571
00:35:51.760 --> 00:35:55.280
a loaded rifle at their bedside. Shi had demanded she

572
00:35:55.599 --> 00:35:59.519
join him while he watched documentaries about murdered women before

573
00:35:59.599 --> 00:36:02.280
bed and refused to allow her to sleep with any

574
00:36:02.320 --> 00:36:05.760
clothes on. In these moments, she would often text friends

575
00:36:05.800 --> 00:36:07.840
in the middle of the night to devise a plan

576
00:36:07.960 --> 00:36:10.840
to escape his own. When Shi was filming the movie

577
00:36:10.920 --> 00:36:13.679
The Tax Collector, in which he played a gangster, he

578
00:36:13.760 --> 00:36:17.159
took on the role in real life. During one incident,

579
00:36:17.239 --> 00:36:20.360
while she was driving with him, he pulled a pistol

580
00:36:20.440 --> 00:36:23.599
from a compartment in his car and boasted to her

581
00:36:23.679 --> 00:36:27.639
that it was illegal to possess in California. On another occasion,

582
00:36:27.679 --> 00:36:30.719
he attempted to scare her by warning her that he

583
00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:33.599
pulled out one of his firearms on set and threatened

584
00:36:33.599 --> 00:36:37.079
others with it, bragging to her that he enjoyed getting

585
00:36:37.159 --> 00:36:40.400
their attention. Shia made a horrific boast to her that

586
00:36:40.559 --> 00:36:43.239
in order to get into character for his role, he

587
00:36:43.280 --> 00:36:47.199
would drive around neighborhoods in la and shoot straight dogs.

588
00:36:47.280 --> 00:36:50.119
He claimed killing these dogs because he wanted to know

589
00:36:50.199 --> 00:36:52.320
what it felt like to take a life so he

590
00:36:52.360 --> 00:36:55.400
could get into the mindset of the killer, like his

591
00:36:55.599 --> 00:36:59.159
role in a movie. He knew that Taliah is a

592
00:36:59.199 --> 00:37:02.119
great lover of dogs and very close to her own dog,

593
00:37:02.599 --> 00:37:07.519
and his admission to animal cruelty disturbed and terrified her.

594
00:37:07.960 --> 00:37:12.199
To celebrate Valentine's Day in February twenty nineteen, he drove

595
00:37:12.280 --> 00:37:15.480
her to a hotel spot for a romantic evening. However,

596
00:37:15.880 --> 00:37:19.239
instead of a night of romance, she was subjected to

597
00:37:19.360 --> 00:37:23.360
a torrent of physical abuse from him. After she had

598
00:37:23.400 --> 00:37:27.119
gone to bed, she awoke to him towering over her

599
00:37:27.480 --> 00:37:30.840
and violently squeezing her body and arms against her will.

600
00:37:31.119 --> 00:37:34.639
Shia then grasped his hands around her neck and began

601
00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:38.679
strangling her while whispering quote, if you don't stop, you

602
00:37:38.719 --> 00:37:41.519
are going to lose me. She was so terrified she

603
00:37:41.599 --> 00:37:44.760
could not move and lay there frozen while he continued

604
00:37:44.760 --> 00:37:48.199
to harm her. The following morning, outside of their hotel,

605
00:37:48.400 --> 00:37:51.159
he threw her to the ground, and as they drove

606
00:37:51.199 --> 00:37:55.000
back to his house, he drove manically, removing his seatbelt

607
00:37:55.119 --> 00:37:58.760
and threatening to crash the car unless she professed her

608
00:37:58.840 --> 00:38:02.360
love for him. Was horrified by his actions and fear

609
00:38:02.440 --> 00:38:05.559
for her life. Labuff eventually stopped at a gas station

610
00:38:05.800 --> 00:38:10.320
and she desperately attempted to escape from him. However, after

611
00:38:10.440 --> 00:38:14.280
she tried to remove herself and grab her belongings, he

612
00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:18.280
violently attacked her while in the gas station parking lot.

613
00:38:18.599 --> 00:38:21.079
He threw to Leah against the car and attempted to

614
00:38:21.119 --> 00:38:25.079
strangle her violently while screaming in her face. Shia then

615
00:38:25.199 --> 00:38:28.760
forced her back into his car. Later, when confronted about

616
00:38:28.760 --> 00:38:32.360
this incident by his female friend on September twenty ninth,

617
00:38:32.440 --> 00:38:36.519
twenty nineteen, Labuff did not deny that he used violence

618
00:38:36.559 --> 00:38:41.280
on her. Indeed, Labuff admitted it in a text message saying, quote,

619
00:38:41.360 --> 00:38:45.519
I do remember removing her from the car in the desert.

620
00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:50.360
Labuff stated he removed to Leah by her arms. In response,

621
00:38:50.559 --> 00:38:54.480
Labaff's friend confronted him with a text message saying, Shia,

622
00:38:54.559 --> 00:38:57.800
you did actually admit to me the incident when you

623
00:38:57.960 --> 00:39:01.480
had her by the collar and we're pushing her against

624
00:39:01.480 --> 00:39:05.000
the car while she sobbed and while three mail witnesses

625
00:39:05.039 --> 00:39:08.000
did nothing at a gas stage so Shortly after the

626
00:39:08.079 --> 00:39:11.960
Valentine's Day incident, on February twenty fifth, twenty nineteen, she

627
00:39:12.119 --> 00:39:15.199
reached out for help by texting a close friend and saying,

628
00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:18.119
this is difficult to say, but I am sure you

629
00:39:18.239 --> 00:39:21.719
know I have been in an abusive relationship. It's worse

630
00:39:21.800 --> 00:39:25.159
than you could imagine. Talia also sought the help of

631
00:39:25.199 --> 00:39:28.440
a therapist, writing to him on February twenty fourth. I

632
00:39:28.480 --> 00:39:32.920
have just left an emotionally, physically and sexually abusive relationship.

633
00:39:33.320 --> 00:39:36.880
I have one day out and I'm very confused and overwhelmed.

634
00:39:37.159 --> 00:39:40.079
I am writing this email because I'm hoping that by

635
00:39:40.159 --> 00:39:43.000
seeking professional help, I can stay out of it and

636
00:39:43.079 --> 00:39:46.719
carry on my life. Talia has continued to seek counseling

637
00:39:46.840 --> 00:39:50.639
and psychotherapy from a therapist, and she continues to suffer

638
00:39:50.760 --> 00:39:55.440
mental trauma and distrust. Talia slowly started to distance herself

639
00:39:55.480 --> 00:39:58.960
from Shia. She began this process by planning to escape

640
00:39:58.960 --> 00:40:03.079
from Labuff when the opportunity arose. However, Shi's fixation on

641
00:40:03.199 --> 00:40:07.639
controlling her and surveilling her made the prospect of escape

642
00:40:07.679 --> 00:40:11.880
both difficult and dangerous. Enter around March of twenty nineteen,

643
00:40:12.079 --> 00:40:15.440
she attempted to escape from his house one day. She

644
00:40:15.480 --> 00:40:18.519
packed up her belongings and her bags and she was

645
00:40:18.559 --> 00:40:22.840
going to leave La and Shia. However, while doing so,

646
00:40:23.159 --> 00:40:27.000
Shia showed up unannounced at the rented home where she

647
00:40:27.159 --> 00:40:30.719
was staying. The entire incident was witnessed by the housekeeper

648
00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:33.159
who was helping her pack at the time. In her

649
00:40:33.199 --> 00:40:38.079
own words, the housekeeper provided a sworn testimony that said,

650
00:40:38.239 --> 00:40:41.480
Shi yelled at her that she had to come with him.

651
00:40:41.840 --> 00:40:45.119
Shi hesitated and remained where she was in the room.

652
00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:48.960
When she refused to go with Shi, Shi appeared to

653
00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:53.519
grow angrier and moved toward her. Then he violently grabbed

654
00:40:53.519 --> 00:40:56.920
her and lifted her off the ground. The housekeeper further

655
00:40:57.079 --> 00:41:00.880
relates that after Shi had lifted her into the air,

656
00:41:01.199 --> 00:41:04.880
he forcibly carried her into a separate room. She said

657
00:41:04.960 --> 00:41:07.639
she then heard the door to this room locked from

658
00:41:07.679 --> 00:41:11.440
the inside, and she tried to confirm the door was

659
00:41:11.480 --> 00:41:15.039
locked by pulling on it. Shay continued to scream at

660
00:41:15.199 --> 00:41:18.320
t Leah. He yelled so loudly I could hear him

661
00:41:18.360 --> 00:41:21.599
from outside the room, she said. I waited outside the

662
00:41:21.679 --> 00:41:25.320
room while this occurred. Shai kept yelling at her for

663
00:41:25.400 --> 00:41:30.159
a considerable amount of time. Eventually, I observed Shai opened

664
00:41:30.199 --> 00:41:32.119
the door to exit the room where he had been

665
00:41:32.239 --> 00:41:35.639
keeping her. As he left the room, Shi first appeared

666
00:41:35.639 --> 00:41:38.599
to notice me watching him, so he stared at me,

667
00:41:38.760 --> 00:41:43.079
but he did not say anything. The housekeeper also testified

668
00:41:43.119 --> 00:41:46.039
that she quickly went to te Lea's side to see

669
00:41:46.079 --> 00:41:48.960
how she was doing, and she observed that she was

670
00:41:49.000 --> 00:41:52.079
in a very traumatized state. She appeared to have been

671
00:41:52.159 --> 00:41:55.119
crying and her voice was very weak. When I asked

672
00:41:55.119 --> 00:41:57.440
her if Shi had taken her into the room and

673
00:41:57.519 --> 00:42:00.320
kept her there against her will, she confirmed that he

674
00:42:00.400 --> 00:42:06.119
had indeed done that. Unfortunately, Laboff soon returned, dashing to

675
00:42:06.239 --> 00:42:10.800
Leah's plans to escape from him. Beginning enter around March

676
00:42:10.840 --> 00:42:14.840
of twenty nineteen, she began to experience unusual and painful

677
00:42:14.960 --> 00:42:19.800
physical symptoms. Shortly thereafter, she confronted Shai about her symptoms,

678
00:42:20.039 --> 00:42:24.199
and he admitted he had suffered from a STD which

679
00:42:24.239 --> 00:42:28.280
had been diagnosed years earlier. Shayer admitted he never told

680
00:42:28.320 --> 00:42:31.480
her about the condition, even though they had been sexually

681
00:42:31.639 --> 00:42:36.199
intimate for months. Further, Shi admitted that he had experienced

682
00:42:36.199 --> 00:42:40.079
a flare up of his disease in December of twenty nineteen,

683
00:42:40.159 --> 00:42:43.599
but worked to hide its outward symptoms from her by

684
00:42:43.599 --> 00:42:47.960
applying makeup. Despite experiencing a flare up of the symptoms,

685
00:42:48.440 --> 00:42:52.559
Labeff continued to engage in sex with her, further exposing

686
00:42:52.599 --> 00:42:56.679
her to his disease. Shocked and horrified by this revelation,

687
00:42:56.960 --> 00:43:00.960
she consulted a doctor who performed blood work and confirmed

688
00:43:00.960 --> 00:43:06.039
that she had been infected with Labbas's disease. Tragically, Talia

689
00:43:06.119 --> 00:43:08.599
had later learned she was not the first person he

690
00:43:08.639 --> 00:43:12.679
had transmitted this disease too. Talia learned that at least

691
00:43:12.920 --> 00:43:15.840
one other woman that Lebeff had been in a relationship

692
00:43:15.920 --> 00:43:19.920
with had contracted the disease from him, and that he

693
00:43:19.960 --> 00:43:23.239
had engaged in similar attempts to hides condition from that

694
00:43:23.360 --> 00:43:28.159
person while engaging in sex. Talia engaged in multiple therapy

695
00:43:28.320 --> 00:43:32.920
sessions with Lebeff in an attempt to salvage the relationship. However,

696
00:43:33.079 --> 00:43:38.199
his unpredictable and violent behavior did not change. Eventually, after

697
00:43:38.280 --> 00:43:42.760
she refused endless streams of calls and text messages, Lebeff

698
00:43:43.199 --> 00:43:47.400
ended his relationship with her via text message. She later

699
00:43:47.519 --> 00:43:50.440
learned that Lebeff had been cheating with another woman during

700
00:43:50.480 --> 00:43:53.920
this time, but finally free of him, she began the

701
00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:58.559
long and difficult process of healing from his abuse. Then,

702
00:43:58.599 --> 00:44:00.559
it goes on to say, as part of her path

703
00:44:00.599 --> 00:44:05.199
toward healing, she came into contact with Carolyn Foe, another

704
00:44:05.320 --> 00:44:09.599
survivor of his abuse. Carolyn dated Leaboff during the years

705
00:44:09.679 --> 00:44:12.280
twenty ten to two thousand and seven, and it was

706
00:44:12.320 --> 00:44:17.519
a well documented and public relationship. Behind the publicity. However,

707
00:44:17.639 --> 00:44:22.079
Labeff subjected Carolyn to the same kind of abuse, physical

708
00:44:22.320 --> 00:44:25.400
and mental, that he inflicted on to Lea, fuel by

709
00:44:25.440 --> 00:44:30.400
his jealous, impulsive, and irrational ways. For example, just as

710
00:44:30.440 --> 00:44:34.079
Shi was fixated on to Leea's former fiance and would

711
00:44:34.079 --> 00:44:38.159
accuse her constantly of still being emotionally drawn to him,

712
00:44:38.840 --> 00:44:43.039
Hi would berate Carolyn for something as innocent as looking

713
00:44:43.119 --> 00:44:46.840
at the male waiting staff at a restaurant. Chi would

714
00:44:46.920 --> 00:44:50.960
furiously claim that Carolyn was attracted to any male other

715
00:44:51.039 --> 00:44:53.719
than him, just because she happened to be looking at them,

716
00:44:54.119 --> 00:44:57.760
and it would instigate him into anger. Carolyn's experience with

717
00:44:57.960 --> 00:45:02.599
Lebeuff was disturbingly similar to to Leia's, demonstrating his pattern

718
00:45:02.840 --> 00:45:07.519
and practice of abusing women. For instance, in February twenty twelve,

719
00:45:07.639 --> 00:45:10.559
Labuff was traveling with Carolyn to New York City for

720
00:45:10.679 --> 00:45:13.960
Fashion Week. During their flight East, paid for by Carolyn,

721
00:45:14.039 --> 00:45:19.239
Lebuff angrily berated her for wearing expensive sunglasses and repeatedly

722
00:45:19.360 --> 00:45:23.039
humiliated her, causing her to burst out into tears in

723
00:45:23.079 --> 00:45:26.400
front of passengers on the plane. He disappeared the moment

724
00:45:26.440 --> 00:45:30.039
they did. Planed at JFK Airport, Carolyn traveled to the

725
00:45:30.079 --> 00:45:33.119
hotel alone, but could not find Shy and went to bed.

726
00:45:33.480 --> 00:45:38.039
Shai eventually shut up at the hotel, extremely drunk, waking

727
00:45:38.079 --> 00:45:41.599
her by banging loudly on the door. Carolyn let le

728
00:45:41.719 --> 00:45:46.360
Buff into the room, where, after babbling incoherently, he promptly

729
00:45:46.400 --> 00:45:49.679
passed out on the couch, face up. Fearful he might

730
00:45:49.880 --> 00:45:53.199
choke on his own vomit in that position, she helped

731
00:45:53.280 --> 00:45:56.760
carry him into the shower, where she sat him upright

732
00:45:56.880 --> 00:45:59.480
and turned on the water. He continued to sit in

733
00:45:59.519 --> 00:46:03.679
that position, mumbling to himself. Believing he was no longer

734
00:46:03.719 --> 00:46:07.719
a danger, she returned to bed. Later that night, Carolyn

735
00:46:07.800 --> 00:46:11.880
awoke to Shy on top of her, drunk, naked, wet

736
00:46:11.920 --> 00:46:15.079
and screaming. He held her down by her arms, causing

737
00:46:15.119 --> 00:46:19.360
intense pain and leaving bruises, and then head butted her violently,

738
00:46:19.559 --> 00:46:24.000
causing her to bleed on the hotel bed. Likewise, following

739
00:46:24.079 --> 00:46:28.440
a party at the Chateau Mayormont in early twenty eleven,

740
00:46:28.599 --> 00:46:32.280
Carolyn kept Shy from driving home because of how drunk

741
00:46:32.280 --> 00:46:35.000
he was. They held a taxi. On the ride home

742
00:46:35.039 --> 00:46:39.360
to Sherman Oaks, Lebuff repeatedly braided and assaulted her in

743
00:46:39.559 --> 00:46:42.880
front of the driver and whispered to her, you know

744
00:46:43.000 --> 00:46:46.039
I'm going to kill you. Once home, he vomited in

745
00:46:46.079 --> 00:46:49.679
the hallway. The next morning, Shai asked Carolyn about the

746
00:46:49.800 --> 00:46:52.599
vomit in the hallway, claiming he had blacked out and

747
00:46:52.719 --> 00:46:56.559
did not remember anything. Carolyn has chosen to ali with

748
00:46:56.679 --> 00:47:00.840
Talah against lebuff in order to protect other women from

749
00:47:00.920 --> 00:47:05.320
ever having to endure his abuse. So that is about

750
00:47:05.440 --> 00:47:09.360
as disturbing a lawsuit as you could ever hear, right,

751
00:47:09.920 --> 00:47:13.480
And as soon as this comes out, shit totally hits

752
00:47:13.559 --> 00:47:17.320
the fan for Shia. At this point, he is practically

753
00:47:17.480 --> 00:47:23.559
blacklisted from Hollywood. This guy responsible for two billion plus

754
00:47:23.599 --> 00:47:28.960
in revenue from his films can't even get a job now. Personally,

755
00:47:29.599 --> 00:47:33.679
remember he had reconciled with Mia, and in twenty twenty

756
00:47:33.679 --> 00:47:37.639
two they actually welcome a baby. And you know, after

757
00:47:37.719 --> 00:47:42.039
this lawsuit, the birth of a baby, maybe you're thinking

758
00:47:42.480 --> 00:47:45.599
Shi has finally hit right bottom and he's getting us

759
00:47:45.760 --> 00:47:49.440
life right. And it seemed like maybe so for a

760
00:47:49.440 --> 00:47:54.039
few years anyway, But then in late twenty twenty five, however,

761
00:47:54.559 --> 00:47:59.880
he splits with Mia again. So Shai needs a chain,

762
00:48:00.239 --> 00:48:03.199
a venue, maybe a place where he can blend in

763
00:48:03.719 --> 00:48:07.400
a little bit in that place becomes the Big Easy,

764
00:48:07.960 --> 00:48:12.440
New Orleans, about an hour from where I'm recording right now,

765
00:48:13.119 --> 00:48:16.360
and that brings me to just a few weeks from

766
00:48:16.440 --> 00:48:21.199
this recording. Mardi Gras twenty twenty six is February seventeenth.

767
00:48:21.239 --> 00:48:24.960
It's about one o'clock am when Shia outside of what

768
00:48:25.159 --> 00:48:28.400
is known as Our Bar in New Orleans. This is

769
00:48:28.440 --> 00:48:32.639
a very popular spot for locals. He's thirty nine years

770
00:48:32.679 --> 00:48:36.000
old at this point, drunk as fuck, which I mean,

771
00:48:36.039 --> 00:48:40.360
it's Monti Gras. Everyone is drunk af but Shia tends

772
00:48:40.440 --> 00:48:44.079
to get aggressive when he drinks too much, if y'all

773
00:48:44.159 --> 00:48:46.400
have yet to figure that one out, so much so

774
00:48:46.719 --> 00:48:49.360
that at one point he's asked to leave the bar.

775
00:48:49.760 --> 00:48:53.039
Now according to reports, he did leave, but then he

776
00:48:53.159 --> 00:48:57.760
returned a little while later, he gets bounced out again

777
00:48:58.239 --> 00:49:02.519
and while outside his cell phone cameras rolling, he is

778
00:49:02.679 --> 00:49:09.519
caught in several altercations with people. Video showed Shi yelling

779
00:49:09.599 --> 00:49:15.039
some serious homophobic shit, if you will. When he shoves

780
00:49:15.320 --> 00:49:18.480
one guy to the ground, he punches another guy of

781
00:49:18.519 --> 00:49:23.159
the nose. Police get called and ambulance and he gets

782
00:49:23.239 --> 00:49:27.440
looked at, and then he's hauled off to jail. Now,

783
00:49:27.880 --> 00:49:32.440
that's one side of the story. In this next clip,

784
00:49:33.079 --> 00:49:37.199
you're gonna hear shy aside from Shi hisself.

785
00:49:36.920 --> 00:49:37.679
On Marty Gros.

786
00:49:38.599 --> 00:49:42.119
Everybody's got motivations on Marty Gron, Martin gra Is, Marty Gras,

787
00:49:42.679 --> 00:49:46.320
God bless these dudes. I'm sorry to hope in Marty

788
00:49:46.360 --> 00:49:48.599
gra they want to make it an extra thing.

789
00:49:48.760 --> 00:49:52.280
I understand. Go ahead, bro, go ahead, go ahead, get it,

790
00:49:52.320 --> 00:49:53.199
go go go go well.

791
00:49:53.199 --> 00:49:54.760
I just think great, Like if you're gonna stay out

792
00:49:54.800 --> 00:49:55.480
and keep doing this.

793
00:49:55.599 --> 00:49:58.320
Look here here's my truth. I'm around. I'm in the

794
00:49:58.320 --> 00:49:59.679
street all day.

795
00:50:00.039 --> 00:50:03.280
I'm outside all day long, all day long, before Marty

796
00:50:03.320 --> 00:50:05.800
grow after Marty Graw, I'm outside all day long. This

797
00:50:05.880 --> 00:50:08.639
city is love, bro. I get no fucking weirdo from

798
00:50:08.679 --> 00:50:11.920
no weird there's no there's not an ounce, not a

799
00:50:12.119 --> 00:50:15.880
smidgeon of any weirdo out here with me walking around,

800
00:50:16.559 --> 00:50:18.239
it's love, NonStop love.

801
00:50:18.360 --> 00:50:21.320
It's NonStop love from both sides. You feel like it's

802
00:50:21.360 --> 00:50:24.639
different in La in that way. No, LA's love too, bro.

803
00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:26.719
I'm like Will Smith, I'm like an uncle Doug.

804
00:50:27.559 --> 00:50:28.400
So I just move around.

805
00:50:28.400 --> 00:50:30.440
It's love everywhere. I don't get love, I get loved

806
00:50:30.559 --> 00:50:33.400
pretty much everywhere. The minute I get into trouble is

807
00:50:33.440 --> 00:50:37.760
with very a person who is after something, after what

808
00:50:37.880 --> 00:50:40.159
kind of thing, like inciting a reaction. I am an

809
00:50:40.199 --> 00:50:43.920
opportunity sometimes to someone. That's not to minimize my behavior,

810
00:50:44.039 --> 00:50:46.280
but I get it. I'm bright, and it's fuck when

811
00:50:46.280 --> 00:50:48.440
I walk around and I get listen if you're like

812
00:50:48.480 --> 00:50:49.239
a Twigs fan.

813
00:50:49.239 --> 00:50:49.639
Or something like.

814
00:50:49.679 --> 00:50:51.480
I don't know, Bro, I have no fucking idea. Bro,

815
00:50:51.519 --> 00:50:54.079
it's not my business. It's not my business. Here's what

816
00:50:54.119 --> 00:50:55.719
I know. I can only deal with my side. My

817
00:50:55.840 --> 00:50:59.480
side is this my behavior bullshit I gotta deal with that?

818
00:50:59.760 --> 00:51:02.000
Does mean I got to go to rehab again? I'm

819
00:51:02.000 --> 00:51:04.159
just not into it, Bro. I don't think my answers

820
00:51:04.199 --> 00:51:07.239
are there. I don't, I really, I genuinely don't. If

821
00:51:07.280 --> 00:51:09.519
I genuinely did, I go. I don't think I have

822
00:51:09.519 --> 00:51:12.159
a drinking problem. I think I have a different problem,

823
00:51:12.320 --> 00:51:13.480
and I'm going to address it.

824
00:51:13.760 --> 00:51:14.559
What's that problem?

825
00:51:14.679 --> 00:51:17.360
I think I have a small man complex, some kind

826
00:51:17.360 --> 00:51:20.440
of napoleonic I don't know what it is. I think

827
00:51:20.440 --> 00:51:23.400
it's something that has to do with anger and ego

828
00:51:23.920 --> 00:51:27.079
more so than my drinking. But that's where I'm at now.

829
00:51:27.119 --> 00:51:29.000
On my journey and I'm trying to navigate it.

830
00:51:29.039 --> 00:51:29.679
I'll figure it out.

831
00:51:29.840 --> 00:51:31.800
What kind of things set off that anger? What kind

832
00:51:31.800 --> 00:51:33.360
of things set off that anger? I mean, boy, I

833
00:51:33.360 --> 00:51:36.159
haven't experienced for a while. But I'll be honest with you,

834
00:51:36.199 --> 00:51:39.400
big gay people are scary to me. What do you

835
00:51:39.400 --> 00:51:42.599
mean When I'm like standing by myself and three gay

836
00:51:42.679 --> 00:51:45.239
dudes are next to me touching my leg, I get scared.

837
00:51:47.199 --> 00:51:53.760
I'm sorry. If that's homophobic, then I'm that. Yeah, that

838
00:51:53.800 --> 00:51:54.360
happened a lot.

839
00:51:54.639 --> 00:51:58.360
No, it just happened one time recently. Well that's why

840
00:51:58.480 --> 00:51:59.519
I got arrested.

841
00:51:59.679 --> 00:52:02.599
Oh okay, yeah, so you were sort of being groped

842
00:52:02.599 --> 00:52:03.199
and surrounded.

843
00:52:03.320 --> 00:52:06.039
I'm not gonna say that because my lawyer said, oh fuck.

844
00:52:05.920 --> 00:52:07.719
Dude, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay. We can make it.

845
00:52:07.760 --> 00:52:09.719
I am.

846
00:52:11.880 --> 00:52:16.440
Wrong for touching anyone ever, And that's the end of

847
00:52:16.480 --> 00:52:21.519
my statement on this whole shit sounds good, cool.

848
00:52:21.639 --> 00:52:26.360
Now, look gay straight, Bye, Jim Chapman. Don't give a fuck.

849
00:52:26.920 --> 00:52:30.639
But if some dude puts his hands on my leg

850
00:52:31.119 --> 00:52:34.559
in a bar being a straight guy, as far as

851
00:52:34.559 --> 00:52:39.519
I'm concerned, I might respond in kind the same way

852
00:52:39.599 --> 00:52:43.559
Shi did because you just assaulted me. So if that

853
00:52:43.760 --> 00:52:47.559
is true, I don't blame Shi for showing them hands

854
00:52:47.840 --> 00:52:51.719
if you will. Now, look, one thing I can say

855
00:52:52.559 --> 00:52:56.840
is that Shai is definitely about it now. He's not

856
00:52:57.039 --> 00:53:01.000
no punk. He is down to fight you one hundred percent.

857
00:53:02.159 --> 00:53:07.119
But the difference between me and Shia is that I

858
00:53:07.159 --> 00:53:11.480
ain't shy labuff. You can't be doing that shit when

859
00:53:11.559 --> 00:53:17.039
you're shy labuff. Now he could be lying. It could

860
00:53:17.119 --> 00:53:20.360
be all bullshit, and he's using that as an excuse

861
00:53:20.440 --> 00:53:23.599
for why he made the slurs and for why he

862
00:53:23.679 --> 00:53:26.800
threw hands at people to begin with. And the problem

863
00:53:26.840 --> 00:53:30.800
here for Shia is there's proof of what he did.

864
00:53:31.320 --> 00:53:35.079
That's all on video. It's all on camera, including the

865
00:53:35.159 --> 00:53:39.599
volume version of it. But there is absolutely no proof

866
00:53:40.199 --> 00:53:43.079
of his side of things. There's no video of people

867
00:53:43.119 --> 00:53:45.400
putting their hands on another man putting his hands on

868
00:53:45.440 --> 00:53:48.039
his leg. Not saying it didn't happen. I'm just saying

869
00:53:48.039 --> 00:53:50.760
there's no proof of it. There's proof of the shit

870
00:53:51.039 --> 00:53:54.000
Shi did. So, as I said, he gets arrested, he

871
00:53:54.079 --> 00:53:57.679
boils out, and what do you think he does, Well,

872
00:53:57.719 --> 00:54:02.199
he goes right back to freaking Marti gras, y'all. He

873
00:54:02.280 --> 00:54:04.840
not only goes back to Marti Gras. He kind of

874
00:54:04.880 --> 00:54:08.559
flaunts it. He takes the bucking paperwork that he had

875
00:54:08.599 --> 00:54:12.360
and people taking pictures with him. He's holding the booking

876
00:54:12.440 --> 00:54:14.920
paperwork in his mouth. He's I'm must making a joke

877
00:54:14.960 --> 00:54:18.880
out of it. Now, that's a problem that in Shi

878
00:54:19.000 --> 00:54:23.079
Lah buff. If you're listening to this, because you're only

879
00:54:23.079 --> 00:54:26.920
about forty five minutes from me, that's a problem. Brother.

880
00:54:27.920 --> 00:54:32.000
You're thirty nine fucking years old. That's acting like a

881
00:54:32.039 --> 00:54:36.559
fifteen year old. You need to grow up on that shit.

882
00:54:36.719 --> 00:54:39.119
You should have went home after that. Marti Gras or no,

883
00:54:39.320 --> 00:54:44.119
Marti Gras. You need to get some handlers around you,

884
00:54:44.280 --> 00:54:47.239
some people you trust that can tell you when you're

885
00:54:47.280 --> 00:54:51.559
doing dumb shit. Just my opinion. I mean, to me,

886
00:54:52.400 --> 00:54:57.400
it's just crazy. This guy cannot find the off switch, y'all. Now,

887
00:54:57.440 --> 00:55:02.000
to wrap this up, my thought are actually with Shy

888
00:55:02.239 --> 00:55:06.119
because I'm worried about this dude right now. And again,

889
00:55:06.280 --> 00:55:09.480
if he's listening to this, I am praying for you, brother.

890
00:55:10.000 --> 00:55:13.679
I really hope this guy gets his shit together before

891
00:55:13.719 --> 00:55:19.199
he totally self destructs to the point that there's no

892
00:55:19.400 --> 00:55:23.719
coming back from it. And all of you, thank you

893
00:55:23.960 --> 00:55:27.679
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much without their support. So thank you so much. I

899
00:55:46.199 --> 00:55:50.039
love y'all more than you know. And until next time.

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