Shia LaBeouf spends Mardi Gras under arrest after alleged bar fight

News of LaBeouf’s arrest followed a lengthy Hollywood Reporter account of his weekend in New Orleans, which he has been “terrorizing” for the last week. THR reported that he showed up to a bar without a shirt or cash in an “inebriated” and “somewhat belligerent” state. Bartenders around the city claim he attempted to use a credit card at cash-only bars. “He asked me three times if he could use his credit card,” said Kyle Catarouch, who was tending bar when LaBeouf entered on Sunday. “Why don’t you go back and dig Holes?” she said, setting the actor ablaze with a third-degree burn. 

It’s the first incident of this kind for LaBeouf in some time. After spending the ’10s on and off the TMZ homepage and in and out of police custody, he wrote and starred in 2019’s film Honey Boy, playing his abusive father, in an attempt to explain his abuse issues. Months later, he found himself in the middle of the Don’t Worry Darling drama before getting arrested for battery and theft in September 2020. In December of that year, FKA twigs sued him for sexual battery, assault, and emotional distress. The suit was eventually settled out of court, but it did reveal LaBeouf’s history of abusing women. But even after he sobered up, LaBeouf’s behavioral problems continued to dog him. He made himself the antagonist of Mike Figgis’ Megadoc, a documentary about the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, which featured the director and actor butting heads throughout production. Coppola, who worked with Marlon Brando, says in the doc that LaBeouf was “the biggest pain in the fucking ass of any actor I’ve ever worked with.”