In a recent interview with the "Bishop Barron Presents" program, broadcast via YouTube, actor and director Shia LaBeouf said that, at a bad moment in his personal and work life - not so long ago - he thought about suicide. “My world fell apart,” said the artist.
LaBeouf faced adversity, the car accident, rehab, work interruption Emma Stone, Broadway's Cabaret, as well as violent episodes and a lawsuit from his Honey Boy co-star, FKA Twigs, accusing the actor of sexual and physical assault. That case goes to trial in April.
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The actor also admitted that he needs conflicts to carry out his performances, which almost took him out of the film industry. “At that point, I was 'nuclear,'” he said. “Nobody wanted to talk to me, including my mother. My manager didn't call me. My agent wouldn't call me. I was no longer connected to the business,” he pleaded.
It was then that Shia was revealed to have contemplated suicide. “I had a gun on my desk. I was out of my mind. I didn't want to be alive anymore when all this happened. I was ashamed the most I've ever been in my life, the kind of shame that makes you forget to breathe. You don't know where to go, you can just go outside and get a bat."
The actor and director also stated that his life was never saved, but rather that he had come out of this bad and dark period after his conversion to Catholicism, motivated by research to play the title character of the next film by Abel Ferrera about the controversial XNUMXth-century monk, “Padre Pio”.
LaBeouf revealed that the seed for the project came from an online meeting between him and Ferrara to participate in a "spiritual program" to which both had signed up. “I'm on this spiritual program. We have meetings. And another person who was at these meetings was Abel Ferrara,” he said.
Shia continued: “He called me in the private chat and asked me: 'Am I going to meet Padre Pio?'” and concluded: “my life has led me to a serious infliction of pain and harm to other people.”
Imagem: Bishop Barron Presents/YouTube
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