Shia LaBeouf claims he was raped by a woman who visited his #IAMSORRY art show in Los Angeles on Valentine’s Day this year.
The actor set himself up in a room at an art gallery and spent five days with a paper bag over his head while members of the public came and spent time with him.
He had worn the same bag, with “I AM NOT FAMOUS ANYMORE” scrawled across the front, on the red carpet of a film premiere for Nymphomaniac at the Berlin Film Festival prior to the exhibition, worrying fans with his unusual behaviour.
The star, who was seen crying during the exhibit, says a stranger came into the gallery, stripped off his clothes and raped him while his girlfriend Mia Goth waited outside to see him.
In a bizarre email exchange with Dazed Digital, he wrote: “One woman who came with her boyfriend, who was outside the door when this happened, whipped my legs for 10 minutes and then stripped my clothing and proceeded to rape me.
“There were hundreds of people in line when she walked out with dishevelled hair and smudged lipstick. It was no good, not just for me but her man as well.
“On top of that, my girl was in line to see me, because it was Valentine’s Day and I was living in the gallery for the duration of the event – we were separated for five days, no communication.
“So it really hurt her as well, as I guess the news of it travelled through the line.
“When she came in she asked for an explanation, and I couldn’t speak, so we both sat with this unexplained trauma silently. It was painful.”
The journalist who conducted the email interview eventually met up with the actor in person but, rather than talk, Shia suggested they sit opposite each other in silence with cameras focused on their foreheads, with the publication now having pictures of the occasion as proof.
The Hollywood star displayed strange behaviour in December last year after he was accused of plagiarism with some people noticing his short film Howard Cantour.com was very similar to 2007 comic Justin M. Damiano by Ghost World creator Dan Clowes.
He later turned up at a premiere with the paper bag on his head and in June this year he was arrested for disorderly conduct after disrupting a Broadway play in New York.
Shia has since put himself through six months of outpatient alcohol rehab with a New York judge congratulating him on his transformation this week.