Shia LaBeouf claimed that Sigourney Weaver slapped his dad, Jeffrey Craig LaBeouf, for hitting on her when they worked together on the 2003 movie Holes.
While attending the Fanboy Expo fan convention in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Saturday, July 11, one fan asked Shia, 40, about his “experience” of working with Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu on 2003’s Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle.
Shia responded by admitting that his father ruined his relationships with the actresses.
“My dad was fresh out of prison, so we were on this set, and here’s all these pretty girls walking around. Bad news,” Shia told the crowd during a Transformers reunion panel, according to People.
He added that his dad “was hitting on all three of those women all the time,” seemingly referring to Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle stars Diaz, 53, Liu, 57, and Drew Barrymore.
Shia alleged that Jeffrey’s behavior got so out of hand that Liu would actively avoid Shia’s father onset. “She couldn’t stand him. But he wasn’t going nowhere, he’s my dad. So we were just hanging out all the time, and Lucy Liu would always do these big circles around my trailer,” he said.
Shia then said that there was a similar situation on the set of Holes with Weaver, 76. “My dad’s been kicked off of so many sets, dude,” he said. “He hit on Sigourney Weaver one time. She slapped him on Holes, on the Holes set. So, that’s probably… that’s what I remember from Charlie’s Angels.”
Shia was a teenager while filming both Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle and Holes, meaning he had to have an adult supervisor with him on set.
Reps for Liu, Weaver and Shia did not immediately respond to Us’ request for comment regarding the claims.
Jeffrey was previously convicted of attempted rape in 1981 and served time in prison until 1983, according to The Sun. He told journalist Aaron Gell during a 2019 interview that he had “a conviction for attempted rape” and “was registered as a sex offender under Megan’s Law.”
“I went to the joint for attempted rape. This was in 1980. Whatever I was doing, I have no clue. I was blackout drunk,” Jeffrey claimed at the time.
Shia has been open about his complicated relationship with Jeffrey in the past, and their dynamic even served as inspiration for his semi-autobiographical 2019 movie Honey Boy. The film, which he starred in and wrote, follows a young actor’s tumultuous childhood and early adult years as he reconciles with his abusive father.
However, Shia later said it was “f***ing nonsense” to depict his father as abusive in the movie while appearing on Jon Bernthal’s “Real Ones” podcast in August 2022.
“Here’s a man who I’ve done vilified on a grand scale,” Shia said of his father, whom he portrayed a version of in the movie.
“I wrote this narrative, which was just f***ing nonsense. My dad was so loving to me my whole life. Fractured, sure. Crooked, sure. Wonky, for sure. But never was not loving, never was not there,” he said. “He was always there … and I’d done a world press tour about how f***ed he was as a man.”
