Shia LaBeouf was arrested after an alleged fight during a Mardi Gras party in New Orleans.
TMZ broke the news on Tuesday, February 17, reporting that the 39-year-old actor was involved in an apparent physical altercation just after midnight, which resulted in paramedics being called to the scene. Court records obtained by TMZ stated that LaBeouf is facing two counts of simple battery.
Us Weekly has reached out to police and LaBeouf’s team for comment.
The publication also released a video, which appeared to be taken on the scene. In the 18-second clip, a shirtless LaBeouf appeared to be speaking with someone in the French Quarter. The video then cuts to LeBeouf, still shirtless, sitting in the open trunk of a police car. A white T-shirt was on his head as he spoke with EMS paramedics.
Photos from the alleged incident, also published by TMZ, showed LaBeouf in the back of an ambulance.
An eyewitness claimed in a statement to the publication that LaBeouf was escorted out of a bar before getting into the alleged fight.
LaBeouf has experienced a series of ups and downs in the public eye, including a series of legal issues and multiple arrests for alcohol-related incidents, starting in 2014. He spoke candidly about experiencing alcoholism and PTSD in an interview two years later.
“Alcohol or any of that s*** will send you haywire. I can’t f*** with none of it. I’ve got to keep my head low,” the actor told Variety at the time. “I got a Napoleonic complex. I start drinking and I feel smaller than I am, and I get louder than I should. It’s just not for me, dude.”
In December 2020, LaBeouf was accused in a lawsuit of “relentless abuse” and sexual battery against ex-girlfriend FKA twigs. LaBeouf denied the allegations in a lengthy statement to The New York Times.“I am not cured of my PTSD and alcoholism,” he said, in part. “I am committed to doing what I need to do to recover, and I will forever be sorry to the people that I may have harmed along the way.”
LaBeouf continued: “I’m not in any position to tell anyone how my behavior made them feel. I have no excuses for my alcoholism or aggression, only rationalizations. I have been abusive to myself and everyone around me for years. I have a history of hurting the people closest to me. I’m ashamed of that history and am sorry to those I hurt. There is nothing else I can really say.”
Us Weekly broke the news in July 2025 that FKA twigs dropped the lawsuit against LaBeouf.
Two years later, LaBeouf claimed that he experienced suicidal thoughts as his scandals made headlines.
“At this point I’m nuclear. Nobody wants to talk to me, including my mother,” he claimed in an August 2022 interview with Bishop Robert Barron. “The manager’s not calling. The agent’s not calling. I’m not connected to the business anymore.”
LaBeouf also recalled the moment he almost took his own life amid ongoing legal issues.
“I had a gun on the table. I was outta here. I didn’t want to be alive anymore when all this happened,” he said. “Shame like I had never experienced before — the kind of shame that you forget how to breathe. You don’t know where to go. You can’t go outside and get like, a taco.”
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