FKA Twigs says she has been suffering from panic attacks after her alleged abusive relationship with Shia LaBeouf.
The British singer fully detailed for the first time the “fear and shame” she felt during her nine-month romance with the actor.
And he revealed that he only had the courage to leave LaBeouf after calling a helpline for abuse.
In an interview with Louis Theroux on his BBC Radio 4 podcast “Grounded”, he claimed that LaBeouf forbade him to look other men in the eye and isolated him from his friends and family.
She let herself be felt that she was “the worst person in history” and thought no one would believe her after passersby didn’t help when LeBeouf allegedly drowned her at a gas station.
“I really felt like it was impossible to leave, I felt so controlled … it was completely overwhelming,” he said.
The couple met on the set of the movie “Honey Boy” in 2018 and separated in May 2019.
In December 2020, Twigs announced that he was suing LeBeouf for sexual battery, assault and emotional distress infection.
He told Theroux that there was “an intense honeymoon period at first” before LaBeouf’s behavior became abusive.
He said he gradually became aware that he was becoming more “jealous and controlling” and realized the “little things you could do wrong that could take away happiness.”
“For me, it was nice with a waiter or being polite to someone who could look like me flirting or [wanting] maintaining a kind of relationship with someone when I literally just ask for pasta and I’m polite, ”he said.
“I was told that I knew what it was like, and that if I loved it I would not look men in the eye. So that was my reality for four months towards the end of the relationship, which didn’t allow me to look men in the eye. ”
The star said he started looking at the ground when the couple went out together and began to isolate themselves from their friends and family, adding, “I just lived a very regimented and contained life that I felt made me to suffer problems “.
LaBeouf, who, as Page Six reported, was removed from all promotions of his latest film, the Oscar-winning “Pieces of a Woman” after the lawsuit – also expected to meet a quota of daily affection, he asserted.
Twigs said: “He said his previous partner knew this number very well and I was insufficient … it was 20 touches, 20 kisses a day, reinforcements of my devotion to him and to me committed to him, which it’s exhausting because you can “not be natural”.
“I would wake up at night to accuse myself of all sorts of things,” he said. “He accuses me of looking at the ceiling and thinking of ways to leave it, he would accuse me of masturbating … [accuse] I’d like to be with someone else, but I’d always say between four and seven in the morning. “
He spent some time in London trying to recover, as he admitted: “For a long time, everything that woke me up at night, even if it was just my dog, or a noise outside, or I just needed to go in the bathroom, it could cause a very intense panic attack. “
He said he was staying [post-traumatic stress disorder] from that, which again is something I don’t think we’re really talking about as a society just in terms of healing when it comes to leaving and what work needs to be done to recover, to get back to the person they were before. “
She reached a “turning point” when she called a helpline and took it seriously, she said, adding that she wanted to be able to tell her daughter she dealt with the abuse.
LeBeouf told the New York Times that many of Twigs’ allegations are untrue, but said he owed her and Karolyn Pho, another woman the lawsuit claims, “the opportunity to make her statements publicly. i [for me to] accept accountability for the things I have done “.
In another statement, he added: “I am not in any position to explain to anyone how my behavior made them feel. I have no excuses for my alcoholism or aggression, only rationalizations.”
He said that “it has been abusive of myself and all those around me for years. I have a history of hurting people closest to me. I am ashamed of this story and I am sorry for those who hurt me. I can’t say anything else. “
Page six has contacted LaBeouf to comment.