The musician tried to seek refuge with her friends but was afraid to be completely open about what she was experiencing. I’m in the character.’ He made me feel bad, like I didn’t understand what it was like to be an actor or to do this.” I don’t just get up on a stage and do a few moves. Why are you doing that?’ And he was like, ‘Because I take my art seriously.
I need to leave little clues,'” she said, claiming that LaBeouf would brag about shooting stray dogs. “I thought to myself, ‘If he shoots me, and then if there is some sort of investigation, they will put the pieces together. Twigs claimed that the gun first appeared in their shared bedroom in November 2018 and recalled being nervous to get up in the middle of the night out of fear that LaBeouf might mistake her for an intruder. make him angry with me.”įKA Twigs on the cover of Elle, March 2021. He had a gun by the side of the bed and was erratic. “It was so dark, and I was just like, ‘I can’t be totally immersed in this all the time.’ I was very intimidated living with him. “I would say to him, ‘I really don’t want to watch stuff like this before I go to bed. He also allegedly forced her to watch gruesome true-crime documentaries - often about women being violently killed - before they went to sleep. She accused LaBeouf of requiring her to sleep naked, then comparing her to his exes.
On their way home, LaBeouf allegedly drove recklessly without his seatbelt, threatening to crash the car.Īccording to the “Water Me” singer, the abusive behavior began long before that trip. In her lawsuit, Twigs outlined a February 2019 incident during a visit to the desert, claiming that the Transformers actor repeatedly got angry with her and once woke her up in the middle of the night choking her. “Whereas if you put a frog in cool water and heat it up slowly, that frog is going to boil to death. “If you put a frog in a boiling pot of water, that frog is going to jump out straight away,” she explained.
While speaking with Elle, Twigs noted that her ex’s allegedly abusive behavior grew at a gradual pace. David Fisher/Shutterstock Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP/Shutterstock