Shia LaBeouf Says He Contemplated Suicide During Career Low Point: “I Didn’t Want To Be Alive Anymore”

“My world was torn apart,” Shia LaBeouf said of a time in his life, which included car accidents, court-ordered rehab, emotional outbursts—including the disruption of Broadway. cabaret Starring Emma Stone – as well as the violent episodes out and out and sued by her honey Boy Co-star FKA Twigs accused the actor of sexual battery and assault. That case goes up for hearing in April.

That long list of life lessons also included her dismissal from Olivia Wilde’s buzzy don’t worry darling, Wilde spoke about the decision for the first time in an interview with Variety this week.

“I say this as someone who is such a fan of his work,” she said. “His process didn’t fit the ethos I demand in my productions. They have a process that, in some ways, requires a combative energy, and I personally don’t believe that is conducive to the best performance. ,

LaBeouf has since admitted in an interview that he felt the need for friction and struggle to drive his performance. This almost put him out of the industry as well.

“At this point I’m nuclear,” LaBeouf recalled about the time in the interview. “No one wants to talk to me, including my mom. My manager isn’t calling. Agents aren’t calling.” I am no longer involved in the business.”

At that point, he informed, he was ready to commit suicide.

“I had a gun on the table. I was out of here,” he said in the above YouTube interview with Robert Barron, Bishop of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. “I didn’t want to be alive anymore when it all happened. Shame Like I’ve never experienced before – it’s such a shame that you forget how to breathe. You don’t know where to go. You can’t go out and be like a taco.”

LaBeouf said that his life had been saved, that he had reached the other side of that dark period as a result of his conversion to Roman Catholicism, which he himself researched to play the title character in Abel Ferreira’s upcoming film about the controversial. was inspired. 20th century monks, drink padre, The film is having its world premiere in competition in Venice, via the sidebar Giornate degli Autori, parallel to the fest.

The actor revealed that the genesis of the project was meeting Ferrara at a Zoom meeting for a “spiritual event”, to which they both say no.

“I’m in this spiritual program. We have meetings. And another person who was involved in these meetings was Abel Ferreira.”

The actor continued, “He texted me in the chat box, ‘You know about Padre Pio?'”

LaBeouf says the result is that he has been able to let go of “Old Me” and see that “my life had caused other people severe pain and damage.”

He also goes on to say of the man he called “the woman who accused me of all this”, while “I wanted to go on Twitter and write all these things… I wanted to justify and explain all of this.” Now I see that… the lady saved my life. She was a saint in my life for me. She saved my life.”