FKA Twigs claimed in a new interview that she stayed with PTSD after separating from Shia LaBeouf just a month after filing a lawsuit against the actor for ‘relentless abuse’.
The 33-year-old British singer – real name Tahliah Debrett Barnett – appeared on the Grounded With Louis Theroux podcast on Monday as she boldly detailed her relationship with the 34-year-old actor.
On December 11, 2020, she sued him for physical, mental and emotional abuse. LaBeouf said at the time that many allegations against him were not true, but added that he has to ‘accept responsibility for everything I have done’.
The two met in 2018 on the set of her film Honey Boy, when she stated on the podcast that they had an ‘intense honeymoon period’ before things started to change.
Her side of the story: FKA twigs (seen in February 2020) claimed in a new interview that she stayed with PTSD after separating from Shia LaBeouf just a month after filing a lawsuit against the actor for ‘relentless abuse’
twigs started to realize that he became more ‘jealous and controlling’ as she began to realize the ‘little things you could do wrong that could take away your happiness.
“For me, it was being nice to a waiter or being polite to someone who could be seen as me flirting or wanting to get involved in some kind of relationship with someone else when I’m literally just asking for noodles and being polite.
“I was told that I knew what he looked like, and if I loved him, I wouldn’t look men in the eye. So that was my reality for a good four months at the end of the relationship, that I was not allowed to look men in the eye. ‘
She went on to explain that she looked at the floor when going out in public together and even began to isolate herself from her friends and family.
In the past: the 33-year-old British singer – real name Tahliah Debrett Barnett – appeared on the podcast Grounded With Louis Theroux on Monday as she boldly detailed her relationship with the 34-year-old actor, as they are seen together in November 2018.
Twigs explained: ‘I was simply living a very controlled and contained life that I felt was causing me less trouble.’
She also stated that she should meet a daily quota of affection and even said that LaBeouf expected her to kiss him a number of times and to reiterate how much she cared for him several times, but somehow it still wasn’t enough.
The Mirrored Heart hitmaker said, ‘He would wake me up at night to accuse me of all kinds of things.
‘Accuse me of looking at the ceiling and thinking of ways to leave it … accusing me of wanting to be with someone else, but it would be, always – I would say between four and seven in the morning.’
Legal battle: on December 11, 2020, she (seen in January 2020) sued him for physical, mental and emotional abuse. LaBeouf said at the time that many allegations against him were not true, but added that he has to ‘accept responsibility for everything I have done’
Twigs said it all affected her for a period of time, even after their relationship ended.
She said: ‘For a long time, anything that would wake me up at night, even if it was just my dog, or a noise outside, or just the need to go to the bathroom, could trigger a very intense panic attack.
‘I got PTSD [post-traumatic stress disorder] from there, which again is just something that I don’t think we really talk about as a society just in terms of healing on leaving, and how much work must be done to recover, to get back to the person you were before. ‘
The talented artist said she never imagined going through something like this before her relationship with LaBeouf.
She said: ‘All I can do is think about myself when I’m 50 [and] I have children, I think of what I want to have represented.
‘This was completely unexpected. I never thought that something like this would happen to me … when I’m older, if I have a daughter, I want to be able to say: ‘It happened to me. And I handled it. ‘It’s a great thing to heal publicly and have to do it in front of everyone, but I can do it. I’m a big girl and I can do that. ‘
Twigs also said that he thought leaving it was ‘genuinely impossible’.
Project: The two met in 2018 on the set of her film Honey Boy, when she stated on the podcast that they had an “intense honeymoon period” before things started to change
She explained: ‘I felt so controlled and I felt so confused and I felt so dejected, below myself, that the fear of leaving and knowing that I had all this work to do to feel good again, was completely oppressor.’
On December 11, 2020, FKA Twigs filed a lawsuit against the Shiites, accusing the actor of ‘relentless abuse’, according to People.
The lawsuit, obtained for the first time by The New York Times, was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court with the singer, claiming that Shiites beat and beat her physically and sexually.
The British artist claimed that he knowingly gave her a sexually transmitted disease during their year-long relationship.
The ex-boyfriends started dating in 2018 after she was cast in her film Honey Boy and they broke up in spring 2019, with the singer saying she found the courage to leave him with the help of a therapist.
‘He woke me up at night to accuse me of all kinds of things’: Teigs (seen in January 2019) also stated that she should meet a daily quota of affection and even said that LaBeouf expected her to kiss him a number of times. times and reiterates how much she cared for him several times, but somehow it still wasn’t enough
In the case file, FKA claimed he had a gun by the bed while they slept and feared he would shoot her if she went to the bathroom thinking she was an intruder, as well as an allegation that he squeezed her arm ‘to the point of bruising ‘and’ violently ‘grabbed her when she tried to move.
She also claimed that he threw her against his car at a gas station and reprimanded her in public.
“What I went through with Shia was the worst thing I’ve ever been through in my life,” she told The New York Times via People. ‘I don’t think people would think it would happen to me. But I think that’s it. This can happen to anyone. ‘
Shia told The New York Times that ‘many’ claims were not true and that he ‘has no excuse for my alcoholism or aggression, just rationalizations. I have been abusive to myself and everyone around me for years. I have a history of hurting those closest to me. I’m ashamed of this story and I’m sorry for those I hurt. There is nothing else I can really say. ‘
The actor also said he owed women “the opportunity to publicly expose his statements and accept responsibility for the things I did,” according to the NYT.
Shia also told the NYT that he was currently in therapy and on a 12-step program, although ‘I am not cured of my PTSD and alcoholism’.