Shia LaBeouf Claims He Was Raped During #IAMSORRY Installation

Shia LaBeouf says he was raped during his infamous #IAMSORRY installation in February. The actor told Ellen DeGeneres that he was surprised how empathetic visitors were with him, saying, "They stopped looking at me as like an object they started looking at me as like a human and they were very loving," however, in an email interview with Dazed and Confused, LaBeouf said not everyone was so respectful.

"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...then walked out with her lipstick smudged to her awaiting boyfriend who i image was quite hurt by it," LaBeouf wrote. "All this happened in front of hundreds of people...Yea it was no good. Not just for me but her man as well."

LaBeouf added that his girlfriend, Mia Goth, "was in line to come see me because 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.

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"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 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 hardest part of the show."

Despite the alleged rape, LaBeouf doesn't regret the installation and presumably wants to take the assault no further.

"Almost everyone who came in had preconceived notions of what they were going to experience, and as soon as Nastja Rönkkö brought them through the curtain, everything changed," he said. "I went from being a celebrity or object to a fellow human. I was genuinely remorseful. It wasn't manipulation, I was heartbroken. People I've never met before came in and loved on me and with me. Some would hold my hand and cry with me, some would tell me to 'figure it out' or to 'be a man.' I've never experienced love like that; empathy, humanity."

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