FKA Twigs' And Shia LaBeouf's Trial Set For 2024, Singer Alleges He Knowingly Gave Her An STD

Shia LeBeouf made a rare public appearance at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival for his latest film, Megalopolis – but not everyone is happy about it.

Following the Transformers actor's red-carpet walk, LeBeouf faced backlash for allegedly sexually and physically abusing his Honey Boy costar and ex-girlfriend FKA Twigs, as well as reportedly giving her an STD.

In 2020, the "Cellophane" singer sued LaBeouf, claiming that he "physically, emotionally, and mentally abused her while they were in a relationship that lasted just under a year," according to reports. FKA Twigs – whose real name is Tahliah Debrett Barnett – claims LaBeouf committed sexual battery, assault, and infliction of emotional distress. The suit alleges that Karolyn Pho, a stylist and another one of LaBeouf's exes, claims that the actor pinned her to a bed and head-butted her.

In addition, court papers claimed that LaBeouf "knowingly transmitted a serious illness to Tahlia, without ever informing her beforehand that he suffered from this dreadful malady." Twigs said she began to experience "unusual and painful physical symptoms" around March 2019. When she confronted the actor about it, he "admitted that he suffered from a sexually transmitted disease which had been diagnosed years earlier," per The Sun.

The singer added in the documents: "LaBeouf admitted that he had never told Tahliah about his condition before, even though they had been sexually intimate for many months."

Twigs alleges that the wake-up call came when LeBeaouf reportedly threw her against his car at a gas station and strangled her. In 2021, Twigs told Elle that she woke up with LaBeouf on top of her in 2019, violently squeezing her arms. He then allegedly placed his hands around her neck to strangle her, whispering, "If you don't stop, you are going to lose me." She claims that the next morning, the actor threw her to the ground outside the hotel. When they were inside his vehicle on the way back to LeBeouf's LA home, he began driving maniacally while demanding Twigs profess her love to him, swerving into traffic. “I was thinking to myself, ‘I wonder what would happen to my body...if [we] smashed into a wall at 80 miles per hour?’" Twigs recalled. "I was looking for the airbag and I couldn’t see the airbag sign, so I was thinking, ‘If he doesn’t have an airbag, will this car crush my sternum?’ ”

“What I went through with my abuser is, hands down, the worst thing [I’ve experienced] in the whole of my life. Recovering has been the hardest thing I’ve ever tried to do,” she said later on in the interview.

LeBeouf opened up on Jon Bernthal's podcast Real Ones in 2022, admitting that he hurt a woman, though he did not name Twigs. “I hurt that woman,” LaBeouf admitted. “And in the process of doing that, I hurt many other people, and many other people before that woman. I was a pleasure-seeking, selfish, self-centered, dishonest, inconsiderate, fearful human being.”

In the same episode, LeBeouf confessed to “cheat[ing] on every woman I’ve ever been with” and never telling his “sexual partners about getting cold sores,” acknowledging that was “manipulative.”

In addition, LaBeouf apologized in a statement following the lawsuit’s filing, stating, “I have been abusive to myself and everyone around me for years. I have a history of hurting the people closest to me," as reported by Rolling Stone. He then denied Twigs’s allegations in a February 2021 answer to her complaint, with his lawyers saying he denied causing the singer “any injury or loss” and that she is not “entitled to any relief or damages whatsoever.”

The trial for FKA Twigs' "relentless abuse" lawsuit against Shia Labeouf was postponed from 2023 to October 2024.

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