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I note that Shia LaBeouf was arrested at Mardi Gras. I see claims he faces a global sex-trafficking ring tied to laundering money through politics and Hollywood. I read an FBI agent allegedly monitored his calls and played one back. I’m told he’s been anti-industry after a sexual assault claim, and once wore a bag saying “i am not famous anymore.” Why did Hollywood react so shaken?
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@KeepingCultureAlive: Actor Shia LaBeouf has been making his rounds in the headlines after being arrested during Mardi Gras. Shia was a teen star who seemingly fell victim to the Hollywood machine and what we are now understanding may actually be a group of Globally organized ring of sex traffickers who launder money through politics and Hollywood. Shia revealed and FBI agent once told him that government is monitoring 1/5 of every call we make and even played one of his phone convos back to him to prove it. Shia has been anti industry for a while after detailing how he was sexually assaulted by a woman and no one took him seriously. Shortly after in what some call a humiliation ritual Shia was notoriously walking around with a bag on his head that read “i am not famous anymore” in what many believed to be a humiliation ritual. Why did everyone in Hollywood come out seemingly shaken after having what the masses would call “everything”
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Shia LaBeouf discusses the isolating nature of success in Hollywood, noting it becomes hard to make real friends and that chasing high-profile roles no longer serves him. He describes a period of feeling soulless, dissipating, and turning to heavy drinking and promiscuity, which he says did not fill a deep human need. He explains that he looked up to quiet, suffering individuals as well as honest, transparent people, and that this mix of role models influenced his outlook.
LaBeouf recalls a moment when an FBI consultant warned that devices like ADT security systems and OnStar could be used to surveil private lives, including recording phone calls. He recounts being shown a recorded conversation from two years earlier, which he had forgotten, and describes the experience as bizarre and unsettling. He references a public attempt to apologize by wearing a bag over his head that read, “I’m not famous anymore,” indicating a reckoning with his place in the industry.
He later claims that a Hollywood director took advantage of him, and this becomes part of a broader narrative about exploitation within the film world. Reporting on these events, he is described as making headlines, including a 28-year-old claim that a woman assaulted him during a performance art piece in Los Angeles. The coverage includes reactions from media and commentators, with Piers Morgan's critique noted in a social media post.
LaBeouf discusses the difficulty of leaving Hollywood, suggesting that attempts to depart were thwarted or reversed by industry forces. He characterizes his prior life as one of self-destructive behaviors—drinking to intoxication, smoking weed to no effect, and engaging in unstable sexual behavior—that failed to bring any real happiness or fulfillment. He asserts that entertainment-focused films like Indiana Jones, the Transformers series, Disturbia, and Wall Street are among the big-money projects he participated in, yet he regards them as lacking intrinsic value or spirit and claims to feel shame about them.
He describes a spiritual shift during which he felt the presence of a powerful god and recounts embracing a belief in Jesus Christ, referring to Jesus as Lord, Redeemer, Savior, and his best friend. He states that after giving his life to the Lord, he was drawn back into Hollywood, where he underwent humiliation rituals to regain access to opportunities, and he later went to New Orleans, where he encountered further trouble.
The piece ends by asking readers for their opinions: whether LaBeouf went too far in the industry or was simply another sad case, inviting comments.
Full Transcript
Speaker 0: Been lonely for a long time, you know, especially if you if you work in this business, I'm sure you can attest, you get to a certain level where it's hard to to make friends anymore. You know, used to a time friends. Right. Real friends. It used to a time when I was young and you could just go up to anybody and be like, hey.
You wanna make friend? Wanna be friends?
Speaker 1: Yeah. How do you
Speaker 0: not get go underwater with Hollywood? It's not like I'm working in Hollywood. I work in and amongst Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Chase it anymore, like like, oh, I need the transformers. I need the
Speaker 0: damn thing. No. I ran from it because it was not serving me. It was destroying me. That's when I was getting really drunk and That was all during that time when I just felt like I was becoming soulless.
Mhmm. Yeah. I couldn't navigate myself anymore. I just felt like I like I was I was dissipating. And so
Speaker 1: Where does that come from? Is that is that demand? Is that
Speaker 0: It's the guys you look up to. You know, I always looked up to the quiet sufferers, so I chased that. You know? But but I also looked up to, like, people who are transparent, people who are honest, the real ones. That's why we always got along.
Speaker 1: It wasn't until he did this interview where he talked about the government that made the media runners keep a close eye on.
Speaker 0: I remember we had an FBI consultant on on the picture telling me that they can use your ADT security box microphone to to get your stuff that's going on in your house or OnStar, they could shut your car down. And he told me that one in five phone calls that you make, are recorded and logged. And I laughed at him, and then he played back a phone conversation I'd had two years prior Come on. To joining the picture, the FBI consultant. And it was like one of those it was one of those phone calls.
It's like, you know, what are you wearing type of things. Really? Yes. It was it was mad weird.
Speaker 1: Shia LaBeouf realized that the media runners wasn't on his side anymore. He tried to make a public apology with a bag over his head that said, I'm not famous anymore.
Speaker 2: This is really impressive what you're doing, I have to say. I mean, to be here for a couple days and put yourself on the line, I don't know. I couldn't do it. It's very intense.
Speaker 1: Shortly after Shia LaBeouf would claim that a Hollywood director took advantage of him.
Speaker 3: Actor Shia LaBeouf is making headlines with claims that he was raped last year. The 28 year old tells Dazed and Confused magazine that a woman him during his hashtag I am sorry performance art installation in LA earlier this year. He states in part, quote, one woman who came with her boyfriend who was outside the door when this happened whipped my legs for ten minutes and then stripped my clothing and proceeded to me. The announcement is just the latest in a string of odd behavior from the Disney Channel star. Following two arrests in 2005 and 2007, he also showed up to the premiere of his film, Nymphomaniac volume one, with a paper bag on his head.
USA Today has reached out to LaBeouf's rep for a statement but has yet to hear back. Unsure if the accusation is true or not, journalist Piers Morgan has already taken to Twitter to voice his opinion, stating Shia LaBeouf's claim to have been is truly pathetic and demeans real victims. Grow up, you silly little man.
Speaker 1: I look up. We'll try to leave Hollywood and live a normal life, but they wouldn't let him.
Speaker 0: Worse off than I was before, or I would drink and I wouldn't get drunk, or I would have I would smoke weed and not get high. I would just be worse off than I was before, or I would drink and I wouldn't get drunk, or I would have with random women and I wouldn't feel any joy. There was no none of the things I was doing to fill that human instinct were were being fulfilled.
Speaker 4: Indiana Jones, the trilogy of transformers, disturbia, and Wall Street.
Speaker 0: Mhmm.
Speaker 4: These are just a few among the important films you took part in.
Speaker 0: Yeah. These are the big money movies. These are the international movies that may have come here, but these movies don't mean anything. They have no intrinsic value. They have no spirit.
They don't mean anything. Entertainment. So all these movies, I have big shame about these movies. They don't mean anything. Wanna act no more.
I'm not interested in making movies, really. I think my god is very intelligent. My god used my weaknesses to bring me closer to him, and I felt like I was living a life that was meaningless. And so I drank a lot and smoked a lot of weed, very lascivious with women, and was trying to, like, fill a hole, just constantly chasing instincts, just like an animal, and thought I was in control of things. And I was in an industry that would applaud that.
And so I would come to set and I would freak out in front of a camera, oh, people would clap. And then I'd go home and I'd be a crazy person. And I hurt people, was a big sinner in my life, and grew up believing that that was the way. And then all of the things that I used to use to fill my that emptiness up stopped working. And then I didn't wanna be alive anymore.
And I have let me just I have no God in my life because my idea of God is just fear. And this man is talking from a fearless place, so I believe him. And he says he says, he points at the ocean, at the waves, and he says, I know you don't believe in God. That's okay. So why don't you just try to stop the waves?
Speaker 4: Who is Jesus Christ for you?
Speaker 0: Lord, the redeemer, savior, my like a best friend.
Speaker 1: But shortly after giving his life to the Lord, he would get sucked back into Hollywood again. They would make him perform a humiliation ritual to get back in the door. Since then, Shia LaBeouf went down in New Orleans and got into some trouble. Let me know what y'all think. Did Shia LaBeouf go too far in the industry, or was he just another sad case?
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