Shia LaBeouf feels grateful to his friends for helping him in his sobriety journey.
In a recent interview, the Transformer star, 38, credited his sobriety journey to fellow actors Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, and Josh Brolin.
“Big respect, big love. He’s always been very lovely to me,” LaBeouf told The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday. “He held my hand when I was really s****** on myself. Dude really stepped up for me in big ways.”
“Him, Sean Penn, James Brolin — these guys got me to sobriety,” the Peanut Butter Falcon actor added. “They got around me and kept me alive.”
He continued, “Sean also showed up and motivated me to do this as a play,” he explained. “I was scared as f*** when this thing started,” he said, adding that Penn and Sam Rockwell came to support him from the first week.
“There was a bunch of guys that I looked up to that just started popping up. I had never, ever felt that kind of love — not like that.”
LaBeouf was arrested in 2017 in Georgia. He’s also become embroiled in a sexual battery lawsuit filed by his ex-girlfriend, singer FKA Twigs. LaBeouf has denied the allegations.
