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FKA Twigs opens up her abusive relationship with Shia LaBeouf.
"It's a miracle I came out alive," says FKA twigs. The British singer, born Tahliah Debrett Barnett, has spent the last hour painfully recounting the abuse she endured for nearly a year at the hands of her former boyfriend and Honey Boy costar, Shia LaBeouf. Sitting cross-legged on the floor of her London home, where shes been sequestered due to the COVID-19 Tier 4 lockdown, twigs manages to exude a raw vulnerability her audience has come to expect from her. An oversize hoodie that reads janetan homage to Janet Jacksons self-titled 1993 dance albumis thrown over her petite frame; her newly bleached blonde curls appear damp, her cheeks flushed. While speaking to me over Zoom, she maintains perfect posture, fidgeting ever so slightly by tapping her long acrylic nails together. She is explaining the calculated, systematic, tricky, and mazelike tactics LaBeouf would use to control herthe love bombing, the gaslighting, the social isolation, the sleep deprivation. If you put a frog in a boiling pot of water, that frog is going to jump out straightaway, she says, attempting to explain the incremental and insidious nature of the abuse. Whereas if you put a frog in cool water and heat it up slowly, that frog is going to boil to death. That was my experience being with [LaBeouf].
The emotional, verbal, and physical violence that twigs experienced during the course of their abusive relationship came to a head over Valentines Day weekend in 2019 after she and LaBeouf traveled to a hotel spa. The details of that fateful night are outlined in a shocking civil lawsuit she filed against the actor in December of last year. As she alleges in the complaint, after drifting off to sleep in the hotel, the singer awoke to find LaBeouf atop her, violently squeezing her arms. Putting his hands around her neck and beginning to strangle her, he whispered, If you dont stop, you are going to lose me. The next morning, she claims, the abuse continued when LaBeouf threw her to the ground outside their hotel. Once inside his car and headed back to LaBeoufs Los Angeles home, she says the actor began driving maniacally, demanding that twigs profess her love for him. As he swerved into traffic at an alarming speed, with cars beeping around them, twigs recalls bracing for the impact of the imminent crash. I was thinking to myself, I wonder what would happen to my body...if [we] smashed into a wall at 80 miles per hour? I was looking for the airbag and I couldnt see the airbag sign, so I was thinking, If he doesnt have an airbag, will this car crush my sternum?
As twigs retells the story now, she is physically acting out each scenario, curling her taut dancers physique into a ball and covering her head with her hands. I was thinking, Oh no, if I crouch like that, and the front of the car crashes into my head, will it snap my neck? Her mind raced with terrifying possibilities. At one point, she considered jumping out of the moving vehicle as it barreled down the highway. Do I jump out of the car at 80 miles an hour?
LaBeouf eventually pulled over at a gas station, and twigs attempted to remove her bags to escape, but the actor slammed her up against the car and tried to choke her again. Screaming in her face, he forced her back into the car.
https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a35460385/fka-twigs-shia-la-beouf-abuse/
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)hlthe2b
(102,278 posts)Monster doesn't begin to cover it.
demmiblue
(36,853 posts)My beloved girly whirly is a rescue who was a stray. This infuriates me (as well as his abusive actions against women, naturally).
His actions weren't method, they were psychopathic.
orleans
(34,051 posts)the first one was born in illinois & the second one came from "the south" (i don't think the shelter told her which state specifically)
fur-friend #2 recently got an x-ray for a health issue she was having & the vet told my kid that the x-ray also got part of her shoulder area and there is buckshot in her shoulder--vet also said it is not uncommon to see that in rescued dogs from the south.
my daughter said she wanted to cry--and she did when she got back to her car.
demmiblue
(36,853 posts)I would cry, too. Sounds like your daughter is a kind soul.
jorgevlorgan
(8,294 posts)He got out once because we tried to introduce him to my in laws dogs. They scared him away, he escaped his collar and ran. We spent all night looking for him until a kind neighbor found him for us. Imagine somebody like lebouf sees the lost dog pictures and thinks "target practice." He wouldn't have helped find my dog, he would have shot him
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)demmiblue
(36,853 posts)He has a history of behavioral issues. He admits it himself.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)Point stands. She doesn't even claim that she witnessed these dog shootings, right?
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cwydro
(51,308 posts)kcr
(15,317 posts)demmiblue
(36,853 posts)Huh?
Look in your own post!
edhopper
(33,580 posts)"Why don't you try acting, my boy."
Bucky
(54,013 posts)What a monster. Some people can't handle privilege
PatSeg
(47,445 posts)I have to say that in spite of rehab and therapy, he doesn't seem to have changed over the years. I think this goes way beyond any kind of substance abuse or childhood trauma. He is obviously a very sick person and extremely cruel and dangerous.
Baitball Blogger
(46,712 posts)Or does the "doing research on my character" offer a good defense?
OregonBlue
(7,754 posts)jorgevlorgan
(8,294 posts)His career (or what was left of it), is over. And one can hope most of his creature comforts for a POS like him.
Vivienne235729
(3,384 posts)I will never pay to see any movie this bastard is in. I wash my hands of him.