Shia LaBeouf argues he was raped during the #IAMSORRY art show by a fan.
In a series of emails made public this week, Shia LaBeouf told a reporter that he was raped by a woman who attended his performance art show last year while his girlfriend waited in line outside.
The news comes as part of a feature in this month’s Dazed article, where LaBeouf and a reporter conducted an hour-long “silent” video interview with GoPros strapped to their heads.
The #IAMSORRY campaign occurred following accusations of LaBeouf plagiarizing a story for his short film. The performance art campaign allowed for people to do whatever they wanted with LaBeouf, and according to LaBeouf, one women took that to a whole new level:
“One woman who came with her boyfriend, who was outside the door when this happened, whipped my legs for 10 minutes and then striped my clothing and proceeded to rape me,” LaBeouf wrote in an email. “Then walked out with her lipstick smudged to her awaiting boyfriend, who I imagine was quite hurt by it. All this happened in front of hundreds of people.”
It is not clear how this story was not revealed earlier, since hundreds of people were waiting in line and dozens of reporters were there but, LaBeouf says his girlfriend found out immediately while she was waiting in line.
“Yea it was no good. Not just for me but her man as well. On top of that my girl was in line to come see mebecause it was Valentines Day & I was living in the gallery sleeping in a sleeping bag for the duration of the event – we were separated for 5 days, no communication so it really hurt her as well as I guess the news of it traveled through the line. She was only about 25 people back,” LaBeouf wrote in the email. “All encounters were one person at a time but there were hundreds of people in line when she walked out with disheveled hair and smudged lipstick.”
LaBeouf was reportedly dating his Nymphomaniac co-star Mia Goth at the time.
“”When she came in she asked for an explanation, and I couldn’t speak, so we both sat with this unexplained trauma silently” LaBoeuf said. “It was painful. The hardest part of the show. It fucked our Valentines Day.”
