14 DAY TRIAL // In February this year, Shia LaBeouf and friends got drunk and into a bar fight, with the actor ending up in handcuffs. On a recent appearance on Ellen DeGeneres, Shia opened up about the fight – and revealed who actually started it.
At the time word got out that the actor’s flammable temper once again got the best of him, it was believed he had been the one to instigate the fight.
Ignoring reports and accounts from so-called eyewitnesses, Shia kept mum on the topic – mostly because he’s not really the type to rush out statements every time a story about him goes to print.
Asked by the always-prying Ellen what exactly went down outside the pub at the beginning of the year, Shia breaks his silence: when people get drunk, people say and do stupid things.
“I walked out to have a cigarette. I was away with some friends. Some guys instigated me and that’s what it was. Some name calling. I didn’t know them,” the 24-year-old actor says, as the video below will confirm.
He refuses to pin the blame on anyone in particular, saying things like that do happen when you put lots of men and lots of booze in the same room, a sentiment that Ellen seems to echo.
“It was just an awkward situation. I’m not trying to challenge anybody either… People get drunk, people get crazy,” he says.
Neither does he believe that his celebrity status had anything to do with that particular incident, even if he does admit that there are times when he’s singled out because he is a movie star.
Shia seems to hint he didn’t come forward with the story before because he simply doesn’t care what the world says and thinks of him. There’s only one person whose opinion matters.
“The only opinion that really counts for me, and I don’t care how cheesy it sounds, my mother’s opinion is very – it’s a serious deal for me. It’s really the only honest opinion I feel I truly have and the only opinion that matters in my life,” the actor explains.
He then goes on to describe the card he made for his mom on Mother’s Day – and it’s truly a moving story. Check it out in the video below.