Trainwreck: The Self-Destruction of Shia LaBeouf

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Hey, everyone, welcome back. I'm your host, Jim Chapman, and
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I am bringing you an exposed original series episode and
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I'm gonna be going back to my roots a little
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bit with this one, and I'm going to tell you
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the story of the rich and famous and focus on
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film stars Shia Labuff. Now, there's a reason that I
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decided to do this episode, and that is a very
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recent event over Mardi Gras in New Orleans where Shia
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was involved in several bar fights. He was arrested. More
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on that later, but it definitely got me digging more
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into this guy. Now, I did know that Shi Labuff
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had a history, if you will, of this type of thing,
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but until I really dove into his post, I didn't
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realize how bad it really was. Shia, the star of
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the Transformer series, Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, Dysturbia
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Holes and many others, has fallen completely off the rails,
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in my opinion. So we're gonna get into his story today,
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and I'm gonna give you a history on Shi Labuff
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that you may not actually be familiar with. And for Shia,
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this started out in nineteen eighty six when he was
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born in Los Angeles, California. Now. He was the first
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and only child of his parents, Shana and Jeffrey lebuff
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And he was named after his paternal grandfather. And I
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really like the name Shia. And it's interesting that Shia
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means gift of God in Hebrew. Now. His mother was
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a ballet dancer. She was an artist. She was a performer.
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And his dad was a Vietnam vet. Was a rolling stone. Really,
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he was all over the place. He did whatever he
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had to do to earn money. He was a radio clown,
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he was a hot dog vendor, a circus performer, karate instructor,
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drug dealer. His parents really embraced what you would term
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the hippie lifestyle, so Shia in those early years. He
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grew up in what is known as the Echo Park
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area of Los Angeles. This is a working class, diverse
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area of LA where people pretty much loved paycheck to
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paycheck and the labbuffs. They were no different. By the
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time Shi was three years old, he would already realize
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things at his house pretty chaota. His dad allegedly suffered
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from PTSD from Vietnam, and he was often absent from
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that household. He was chasing band gigs or he was
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dealing drugs. Hi would recall later remembering many instances of
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his parents fighting inside the household, and he would recall
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that it was primarily over money. And it was also
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around this time, at the age of three years old,
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that Shi would begin performing as a way of helping
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his family with the bills. He would dress up as
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a clown and serve as a street performer for tips,
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and he would sell hot dogs and snow cones on
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street corners, just whatever this guy could do to make
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money at three years old. Now, sadly, this did not
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help stave off those arguments between his parents, and in
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nineteen eighty nine, when Shi was still just three years old,
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they separated. Now, from the ages of four through eight,
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not much changed, and as a matter of fact, things
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would get even worse. The family continued to struggle financially
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and his father would sink deeper into a heroine and
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alcohol addiction. Now his father would be in and out
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of rehab. He would even bring Shia to his AA
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meetings at a very young age, and Shia would later
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describe his father as quote tough as nails, but would
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also describe him as very abusive. During this point in
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his life both mentally, physically and also emotionally. He even
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had a situation during this point where his father had
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a flashback from Vietnam allegedly and pointed a loaded shotgun
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at Shaia, threatening to kill him. Now, he would continue
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to street perform during this time, and he would provide
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like a focus on his comedic aspect of his personality,
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and his talent would really start to take shape even
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at this very young age. Now, in nineteen ninety five,
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at the age of nine, he and his mother, they
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would get evicted from their home in Echo Park and
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they would leave there and they would go to Tuanga, California.
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This is in the San Fernando Valley, and this area
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was a very tough area. It was known actually as
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the biker capital of the world. The big biker gang
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there was known as the West Side Crazies. So there
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were several things that when sideways in Shia's life. Outside
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of that eviction at the young age of nine years old,
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his first arrest would occur. At this very young age,
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he apparently admired his neighbors Nike Cortes shoes so much
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so that one day he steals them from his neighbor's home.
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The neighbor costs police and Shia is taken into custody
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for about six hours and then he gets released. I mean,
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he's nine years old. What are you going to do
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with him? Right? So at this point the hope was
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maybe this would scare him straight. And also the same year, y'all,
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nineteen ninety five, while his father is in rehab, Shia
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overhears his mother allegedly being raped. Now, during this rape,
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he hid under his bed, which he would say later
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and I fully believe this created almost a PTSD response
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in his brain, and he would say to this day
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that he feels an enormous amount of guilt over hiding
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under that bed during this rape, which I mean, he's
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nine years old, y'all, what could he have done? And
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truth be told, it probably would have made the situation
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worse if that were even possible. But I totally get
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the guilt. And this is an extremely formidable time in
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one's life, and that really fucked with him, for lack
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of a better word. You ever hear the phrase show
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me a boy at nine, and I'll show you a
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man at twenty nine. These years they shape you mentally,
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and so far it isn't looking good for Shia. So
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a couple of years later, in nineteen ninety seven, at
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the age of eleven, Shia is arrested again, this time
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for stealing a Pokemon game boy from a local kmart.
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He gets detained briefly and then he's released again. At
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this point, he's eleven years old. You really can't do
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much about it. Now. Things would start to turn around
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for the better for Shia after this incident. He had
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a friend and that friend lands a job as an
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extra on a TV show, and he was kind of
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enamored by that, and he figured, hey, I can do
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that shit. So at the age of eleven, he would
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pick up the Yellow Pages and he would start calling
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agents and get this, he would pretend to be quote
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Shia Labuff's manager to get an agent to represent him
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at eleven years old. Now interesting side note on this.
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He would say later that he learned how to talk
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to these agents and pretend to be Shia Labuff's manager
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by watching his dad and these other guys communicate in
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those alcoholics anonymous meetings. He would go with his dad,
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as I told you, So, my point there is you
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just never know where you may pick up a skill
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right now, apparently this worse. Of course they knew that
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this kid was pretending to be a manager, but they
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got such a kick out of it, like, yeah, come
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on in, have Shia come in for an interview. So
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at the age of twelve, he actually lands his first
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acting gig and he makes his film debut in a
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very low budget holiday film that was called The Christmas Path.
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In addition to that role, that same year, he also
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has small parts in several NBC shows and Disney TV movies.
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So things are looking up for Shi. He's working for
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some really big production companies and by thirteen years old,
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the roles don't slow down. They keep coming. He had
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roles in The X Files Suddenly Susan, both very popular
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network shows back in nineteen ninety nine. Now, all of
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these roles they are bit parts, but he was honing
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his skills. He was earning his stripes in the acting field,
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and this is something he would take great pride in
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later on in life. So by late nineteen ninety nine,
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shy skills in persistence they really pay off when at
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the age of thirteen, he lands the starring role in
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a Disney Channel pilot of a new show called Even
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Stevens Beans, How did you get in here? Beans?
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Is like that that policeman in Terminator too. You know
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what I'm talking about.
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I swear he goes liquid.
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He can fit that through cracks in windows, underdoors, through
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little key holes.
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I'm hungry, Let's get it sandwich. And that show would
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absolutely kind of pull him into stardom. The show would
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provide a very steady income for the entire Labuffe family. Right,
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Shia was actually making thirty two thousand dollars a month.
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This thirteen year old, who just a few years prior
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had got evicted from his mother's apartment with his mother obviously,
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was now making nearly four hundred thousand dollars a year
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guaranteed as long as he's a part of that show.
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So during the ages of fourteen and seventeen, this is
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from two thousand to two thousand and three, these were
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really breakout years for Shia. Even Stevens runs for three seasons,
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that's sixty five episodes, and he would win numerous acting awards,
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including an Emmy Award and the Emmy goes to Gotta
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Love the Disney Channel Shia lah Booth.
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Oh my god, sixteen got an Emmy.
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What the hell?
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Wow, wow, wow, I don't know. Oh my oh my god,
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I don't know what we think.
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I don't know how to breathe.
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I oh my god, oh my god.
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This is absolutely clable with even Stevens. I'm so happy.
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I haven't gotten the wrap up yet.
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I'm just kind of stalling.
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Oh my god, this is crazy. There's the wrapping up there.
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An even teen, love would blossom because the girls, they
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would start to take notice. And in two thousand and two,
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at the age of sixteen, he even goes out on
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a date with another Disney Channel actress rising to start
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them and you may have heard of her, Hillary Duff. Now,
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as the story goes, Hillary, who was fourteen years old
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at the time, was the star of Lizzie McGuire and
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the sixteen year old Shia. He goes out on a
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single date to a sushi restaurant and although it was
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a nice date, both would describe later that there was
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just no chemistry there between the two, so it was
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just a one time thing. But he is getting a
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lot of attention during this time, and he dated several
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fellow actresses and even Colie Williams, who was a singer
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for the teen Girl group three LW big group during
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that time, the Cheetah Girls, another big group she sang
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for both. He started dating her and she was also
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big time back in those days. So he's a teenager,
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he's rich, and this is tougher to deal with than
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you may think when you come from nothing, and those
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issues would start to surface in the near future. So
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by two thousand and four, at eighteen years old, Shi
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transitions to big budget movie roles. In two thousand and five,
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at nineteen, he stars in a golf movie. This is
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called The Greatest Game Ever Played, and he played the
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role of a golf caddie. And it is on the
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set of this movie that he meets the daughter of
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a movie producer and her name was China Bresner. She
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was also eighteen and they would date for three years
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until two thousand and seven. Now, unlike subsequent relationships, this
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relationship seemed very stable. Later Shi would say the only
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reason they really ever quit dating wasn't love related, it
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was his career demands. But these three years were not
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without drama completely. In two thousand and five, just a
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year into that relationship, Shia is arrested for the first time.
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As an adult when, according to reports, he threatens his
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neighbor with a kitchen knife over a dispute over a
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parking spot in Los Angeles. Now, the neighbor pulls a
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gun in response. Allegedly, police get called, and although Shy
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claimed self defense, he was arrested for assault with a
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deadly weapon. He stays in jail for like twenty four hours,
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and then the charges mysteriously get dropped. He was nineteen
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years old at this time, so professionally, Shaya's star continues
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to rise, and I mean fast, like a rocket ship,
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and by two thousand and seven, at twenty one years old,
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he finally does it when he lands the starring role
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in a movie called Dysturbia. He also lands a starring
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role in a movie you may have heard of called Transformers.
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Both of these in two thousand and seven, and these
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two films alone gross over seven hundred and nine million
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dollars at the box office, and at this point in time,
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shi Labuff becomes one of the biggest movie stars on
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planet Earth. It's also in two thousand and seven that
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when seemingly everything is going right in his personal life,
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that his private life seemed to be falling apart. On
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November four of two thousand and seven, at the age
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of twenty one, yet another arrest when while in Chicago, Illinois,
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Shia gets arrested for misdemeanor trespassing after refusing to leave
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a Walgreens when asked by security. Reportedly, he was shit
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face drunk and he spends two days in jail over
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the incident. Now, those charges were later dropped when he
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completes community service. Also in this year, he is rumored
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to have dated Rihanna. Now, the story goes they were
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set up through a mutual friend. They went on a
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single date in Beverly Hills, but again they didn't have
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any chemistry. But interesting fact on Rihanna, y'all, I didn't
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realize that Rihanna is one of the richest females in
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the world. Do y'all know? Her net worth today is
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over one point four billion with a B dollars. Now
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that's a result of not her music career, which is
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what I would have assumed, but her cosmetics brand primarily.
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I mean that chick is balling. Just took me by
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surprise when I was doing my research on this podcast.
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But back to it. Two thousand and seven, highs and
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lows for Shia, and in two thousand and eight, those
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highs would continue when a Transformer sequel as well as
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an Indiana James sequel both drop at the box office
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and combined generate over eight hundred and thirty six million
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dollars in revenues. So Shia's last four film jaw combined
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are responsible for a staggering nearly two billion dollars. Now,
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this guy is absolutely on fire at twenty two years old,
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regardless of what's going on in his personal life. Behind
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the scenes, it also comes out that he was involved
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romantically with his co star in the Transformer series, allegedly
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Megan Fox. So professionally never better for Shia, but the
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loews keep coming for him as well in two thousand
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and eight. So on July twenty seventh of two thousand
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and eight, at three o'clock am, shy is four pickup
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collides with another vehicle while he was attempting to make
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a left turn, and the impact cause Shia his truck
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to roll over. Police arrive at the scene. He's reportedly
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exhibiting a lot of signs of being intoxicated. However, he
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does refuse a blood alcohol test and he is pretty injured.
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He had some head injuries, some knee injuries, and his
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hand was actually so severely injured that he had to
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have surgery. He also had a female passenger who fortunately
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just had minor injuries, and as I said, he refused
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to take the blood alcohol tests, so subsequently he automatically
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loses his license for a year. But you can see
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the warning signs here, right. It seems like the more
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successful he gets, the more he kind of falls off
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the rails behind the scenes. This is the point y'all,
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the point in Shy's history where everything seems to start
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going downhill in twenty ten. In twenty eleven, his final
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to what you consider big movies hit the theaters. First was
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a continuance of the movie Wall Street. It was called
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Wall Street Money Never Sleeps, and it's a moderate success.
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Gros is about one hundred and thirty five million dollars,
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but the budget on that film was only seventy million,
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so it made some money. I mis doubled its money there.
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But then Transformers Dark of the Moon premieres and this
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becomes the second highest grossing film of twenty eleven. Get
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ready for this box office total one point two billion
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with a B dollars. Those were the highs of those
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years for Shy, and now on the lows, he gets
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in a b at a bar in Sherman Oaks, California.
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He gets handcuffed in that incident, but not arrested, and
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then in October of twenty eleven, another bar fight, this
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time in Canada while filming a movie. And this is
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also the year he meets a stylist on the set
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of a movie called Nefomaniacs of All Names, and that
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person's name is Mia Golf and she would play a
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major aspect in his life ever since, and will get
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into more of that in a bit so. Heading into
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twenty thirteen, Shy wants to test himself on Broadway. He
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wanted to do some live acting, and he lands apart
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opposite of Alec Baldwin. Now he had been preparing for
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this role for two years. Alec Baldwin's role was initially
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going to be played by al Pacino, which for the
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past two years Shi had been preparing and renting with
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al pa. However, some scheduling conflicts on Pacino's side forces
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him to decommit from that role, and Baldwin stepped in
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really shortened at us like two weeks before this Broadway
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show was gonna go live, and Shia he was intense
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in this role, like he was for all of his
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roles in side note Quickly, Shia took this acting shit serious,
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so serious that in fact, one character he was playing,
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he felt like the dude should be missing a tooth,
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so he pulled his own freaking tooth out. That's how
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serious he took his craft. Now, Baldwin, he was a
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seasoned actor and reportedly at the time he found Shia
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just way too intense. They just didn't geehaul very well,
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so much so that well, I'm gonna let Shi tell
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you the story. Listen to this clip from the David
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Letterman Show.
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And he got fired? What what? What did you get
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fired from? What did you get fired?
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I was doing a play out here, I got fired.
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Fromm Is this the thing with Alec Baldwin.
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That's the thing with Baldwin. Yeah, who's a buddy of yours.
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This is good to be here on April Fools with you.
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No, I'll tell you something.
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Alec Baldwin has been such a good friend, not just
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to me but to the show.
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And he was going.
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Way back like and he's a good dude. He's a
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good dude, and.
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The show is terrific and tremendous actor and one of
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those guys when you go to see him, oh my
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god on the screen, you're just so happy he's there.
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Now, what did you do to him?
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I think, I think, what you guy?
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I'm pretty passionate and impulsive, and he's a very passionate.
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Individual as well.
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And I think you know, that impulsiveness and that passion
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makes for you know, some fireworks.
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This was This was a stage play.
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It was a stage play. It is a stage a
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great stage play.
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What is it called.
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It's called Orphans Orphans?
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Had you orpheus orphans Orphans? Had you done a.
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Broadway production before? Never in my life?
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No? So now tell us how you felt going into this?
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Felt pretty strong going in, actually looking forward to it,
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looking forward to the show.
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Yeah, yeah, I liked it a lot.
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Yeah.
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I read something that Tom Hanks said, who's also opening
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tonight in a Broadway play. He said, television is for writers,
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film is for directors, Stages for actors.
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Yeah you feel that way?
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Yeah? Yeah?
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So why why did you get fired?
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Uh?
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I think I think because I think because me and
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Alec had tension as men, not his artists, but his men.
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I think in a room that became a hard thing
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to deal with, you know, and when you're when you
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got tension as men, that's tough.
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Till July.
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I think, you know, it's cool for increments, but I
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think to do that for a long period of time
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now tough.
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Had you known how I liked before I met Alec briefly?
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Yeah, before we started, right?
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And how would you describe your relationship with him now?
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I hope it's pretty good.
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I mean he's a pretty he's a great actor, and
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I wish him the best of love.
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Now, can I suggest a couple of scenarios?
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Sure?
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Uh?
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I like went to the producers and said, I can't
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take it another day?
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Fire him.
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I think that I think that might have been what happened.
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Really really yeah, No, I just made that up. How
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could that be what happened?
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Others?
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It's like it's like this for the tourn No, Uh,
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what creative differences?
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I think that's what you got to say as sort
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of a business savvy answer for what what what actually happened?
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Now, there were there was a time there was a
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guy Jeremy Piven who was doing this.
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Wasn't that?
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This is not that Jeremy Pivens said he came down
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with mercury poisoning for getting too much.
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Nice right now.
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No, this wasn't that. I would have died to.
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Do this show with mercury poisoning.
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Yeah.
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Uh. And you can't go back now, can't you?
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No?
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No, No, they got the show they need, They got
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the show.
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Got they got another guy in there. Who'd they run in?
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A great actor? Actually they didn't run in nobody. He's
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a great actor's name? Is Ben Foster's terrific in the show?
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Also, now, would you consider doing another play?
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I would? Yeah?
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And you also went to a performance of the show
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set right down set right down front.
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Was the only ticket that I could get? Actually really.
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Yea? Now is that is that an interference to your
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former actors the guys?
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Oh geez, there he is.
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I don't.
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I hope not.
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That wasn't my intention.
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Honestly, I've been part of the play for three years
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and I showed up as a fan.
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Now, if I were to arrange a reunion with you
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and Alec Baldwin, would you be up for that?
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Or is this gone? Is this scorched earth.
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I mean, I mean, I think that'd be a tough
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one to pull off. Man, I mean, I'm all for it,
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you know, but we're punches thrown, no, No, punches thrown.
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No.
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Well, I don't know what to say, because I admire
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your work. I don't know you as well as I
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know Alec. But Alec to me is the guy. He
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is the guy, and I'd like to see this reconciled somehow.
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Here it is right here, Alec. I think you're awesome.
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Man.
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That's it, you know, that's it. That's it. That's yeah.
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So, I mean, Shy played it off well, but with
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problems off the set and now having problems with other actors,
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especially major actors like Alec Baldwin, he is not doing
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himself any favors. And I misspoke a little bit earlier
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when I said he would not make any more big films.
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There was one more when he started opposite of Brad
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pitt in Scott Eastwood, which is Clint Eastwood's son. Incidentally,
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if you don't know, he started a movie called Fury
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with them, and there was an incident on this set
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known as the spitting incident, which Eastwood detailed to GQ magazine,
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and Scott Eastwood said that in this scene, he meaning Eastwood,
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was supposed to chew tobacco and spit it on the
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back of a tank. I mean it was a war movie,
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so I'm talking a tank, a war tank. Well, in
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this paint a good picture of how Shi would get
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into his characters, how deep he would get into them.
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Eastwood spits on this tank and Labuff loses his shit.
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He considered it very disrespectful, almost like Eastwood was spitting
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on the flag. Because he was so in the zone
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of his character. They actually almost came to blows, and
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Brad Pitt, of all people, had to break it up.
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Shi would say later he did not realize it was
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written into the Scrupt later on, so when he read
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the Scrupt, he didn't see a tobacco spit aspect of
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that scene, and he thought Eastwood was just being totally disrespectful. Now,
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this is also the very movie where he pulled his
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own tooth out, incidentally, that I told you about earlier.
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So he's twenty eight at this point and it's in
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two thousand fourteen. In that same year, yet another arrest
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went on June twenty six of twenty fourteen, he is
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arrested at Studio fifty fourth Theater in New York during
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a play. He gets charged with disorderly conduct, criminal trespass,
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and harassment for slapping an actor by the name of
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Alan Cummings on stage in that production in the middle
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of the show. Mind you and witnesses would describe Shi
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as totally wasted, drunk before the show even started. He
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spends the night in jail, and he sentenced eventually to
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alcohol treatment and anger management for that incident. So let's
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go to twenty fifteen and remember that stylust that I
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mentioned earlier that Shi met while filming Nefomaniac. Well, they
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had been dating ever since, on again, off again, of course,
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but they have been now. When they met, Shia was
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much older, he was twenty six, she was eighteen. So
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in twenty fifteen, she's with Shia as he's filming in Germany.
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It's one of those on again times for them, and
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they have a very public altercation that actually gets captured
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on video. The couple is seen exiting a taxi in
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the situation is obviously heated. Mia grabs Shai's backpack and
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refuses to give it back, and you can hear Shia
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in this video tell her quote, please give me my backpack.
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I don't want to touch you. I don't want to
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hit you. I don't want to be aggressive, but you're
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pushing me right now unquote. When this has said, he
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appeared drunk. Eventually he walks away. Then a few months later,
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in October of twenty fifteen, he is arrested again in Austin,
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Texas for public intoxication and he was reportedly exhibiting very
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aggressive behavior in that incident. Moving on from there, things
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are relatively quiet for Shia until October of twenty sixteen,
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when he marries Mea Golf. In twenty seventeen, there was
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a big downfall for Shia. Apparently marriage didn't settle him down.
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In January of that year, he's arrested for assault in Queens,
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New York. In July of twenty seventeen, he's arrested in Savannah, Georgia,
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for public intoxication after getting into an altercation with a stranger.
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He tried to bump a cigarette from once again anger
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management substance abuse treatment. So in twenty eighteen, Mea and
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Shia they got problems. They filed for divorce. That was
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reported as amicable, and he starts day his co star
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on the film Honeyboy, and her name was to Leah
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Barnett and she's also known as f KA Twigs or
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just Twigs, and they date for approximately nine months, which
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Twigs would describe later as an intense honeymoon period followed
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by escalating controlling behavior. They officially split in May of
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twenty nineteen, and in twenty twenty, he actually reconciles with Mia.
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He is the person he in twenty eighteen filed for
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divorce from, and at this point in time, Shi Labuff's
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life is an absolute fucking mess. In June of twenty twenty,
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he's arrested yet again when he allegedly steals a man's
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hat and gets into a fight in Los Angeles. In
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that case, he's charged with misdemeanor battery and petty thuff
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and for those charges a diversion program that actually keeps
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it off his official record. But in December of twenty twenty,
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that is when the bombshell of his life drops when
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Twigs files a lawsuit in La County Court. It's really bad.
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It alleges sexual battery, assault, emotional distress, gross neglect, and
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y'all know how our roll. I have that lawsuit in
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front of me, so I'm going to review it for
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you now, and I'm going to start with the facts
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of the case in this lawsuit, which reads. Taliah first
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met Labuff while filming the motion picture Honeyboy in early
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summer of twenty eighteen, a film in which both had
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lead roles. When shooting on the picture rapped till later
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that year, the two began a roemantic relationship. Talia was
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invulnerable and sensitive state at the time. She had recently
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ended a four year engagement and was recovering from how
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having painful tumors removed from her uterus. Within a week
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or two of dating, Labuff dramatically professed his love for her.
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During the first few months of a relationship, Labuff restrained
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himself to over the top displays of affection, eventually winning
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to Leah's trust. Once Labeff had gained her trust in confidence,
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her living nightmare began. Starting in or around October of
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twenty eighteen, Labeuff convinced her to go live with him
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in his La home. Once she moved in, Labeff regularly
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00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:37.680
exhibited frequent rage and bouts of jealousy toward her on
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a continual basis. He aggressively accused her of dwelling on
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her former fiance, a well known actor named Robert Pattison.
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Of course, that is everybody all knows the Star of Twilight.
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He also accused her of rushing him into a relationship.
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Leabuff would escalate the most inconsequential disagreements, for example, for
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a matter of taste and art, to apocalyptic levels, often
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forcing her to stay up all night while he verbally
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berated her for hours on end about her supposed lack
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of taste. Labuff would take something as innocent as her
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kissing another man on the cheek in a music video
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or being polite to a waiter as nothing less than
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betrayal and an assault on his manhood and an existential
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threat to their relationship. Labuff would literally count the kisses
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00:34:29.519 --> 00:34:32.039
she would give him on a given day and brate
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her she fell short of a target number. He would
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verbally assault her if he placed his hand in her
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lap and she failed to reciprocate or place her hand
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on top of his. He would end their relationship on
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00:34:44.599 --> 00:34:49.280
the slightest grievance, and then mus immediately resurface desperate to
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00:34:49.400 --> 00:34:53.920
resume it, Labuff suffered recurring periods of delusion, wherein he
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armed himself with firearms and on the belief that gang
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members were going to break down the door in any minute,
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going so far as to sleep with guns. She would
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be trapped in the share bed for hours at a time,
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without the ability to even get up to get to
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the bathroom for fear she will be shot by the
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Labuff should he wake up suddenly upon her return, Labbas's
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relentless mental and verbal assault and mistreatment of her eventually
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turned into physical violence. Labeuff committed physical attacks against her
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on multiple occasions, each resulting in personal injuries, not the
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least of which was labuff knowing transmission of serious disease,
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which had forever altered the course of her life. When
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she was living with the Labuff in his la home,
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she remained in constant fear due to the threatening presence
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of loaded firearms. Beginning in November of twenty eighteen, Labuff
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insisted on keeping his front door unlocked and sleeping with
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a loaded rifle at their bedside. Shi had demanded she
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join him while he watched documentaries about murdered women before
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bed and refused to allow her to sleep with any
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clothes on. In these moments, she would often text friends
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in the middle of the night to devise a plan
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to escape his own. When Shi was filming the movie
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The Tax Collector, in which he played a gangster, he
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took on the role in real life. During one incident,
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while she was driving with him, he pulled a pistol
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from a compartment in his car and boasted to her
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that it was illegal to possess in California. On another occasion,
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he attempted to scare her by warning her that he
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pulled out one of his firearms on set and threatened
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others with it, bragging to her that he enjoyed getting
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their attention. Shia made a horrific boast to her that
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in order to get into character for his role, he
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would drive around neighborhoods in la and shoot straight dogs.
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He claimed killing these dogs because he wanted to know
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what it felt like to take a life so he
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could get into the mindset of the killer, like his
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role in a movie. He knew that Taliah is a
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great lover of dogs and very close to her own dog,
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and his admission to animal cruelty disturbed and terrified her.
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To celebrate Valentine's Day in February twenty nineteen, he drove
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her to a hotel spot for a romantic evening. However,
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instead of a night of romance, she was subjected to
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a torrent of physical abuse from him. After she had
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gone to bed, she awoke to him towering over her
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and violently squeezing her body and arms against her will.
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Shia then grasped his hands around her neck and began
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strangling her while whispering quote, if you don't stop, you
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are going to lose me. She was so terrified she
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could not move and lay there frozen while he continued
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to harm her. The following morning, outside of their hotel,
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he threw her to the ground, and as they drove
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back to his house, he drove manically, removing his seatbelt
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and threatening to crash the car unless she professed her
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love for him. Was horrified by his actions and fear
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for her life. Labuff eventually stopped at a gas station
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and she desperately attempted to escape from him. However, after
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she tried to remove herself and grab her belongings, he
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violently attacked her while in the gas station parking lot.
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He threw to Leah against the car and attempted to
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strangle her violently while screaming in her face. Shia then
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forced her back into his car. Later, when confronted about
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this incident by his female friend on September twenty ninth,
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twenty nineteen, Labuff did not deny that he used violence
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on her. Indeed, Labuff admitted it in a text message saying, quote,
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I do remember removing her from the car in the desert.
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Labuff stated he removed to Leah by her arms. In response,
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Labaff's friend confronted him with a text message saying, Shia,
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you did actually admit to me the incident when you
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had her by the collar and we're pushing her against
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the car while she sobbed and while three mail witnesses
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did nothing at a gas stage so Shortly after the
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Valentine's Day incident, on February twenty fifth, twenty nineteen, she
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reached out for help by texting a close friend and saying,
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this is difficult to say, but I am sure you
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know I have been in an abusive relationship. It's worse
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than you could imagine. Talia also sought the help of
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a therapist, writing to him on February twenty fourth. I
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have just left an emotionally, physically and sexually abusive relationship.
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I have one day out and I'm very confused and overwhelmed.
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I am writing this email because I'm hoping that by
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seeking professional help, I can stay out of it and
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carry on my life. Talia has continued to seek counseling
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and psychotherapy from a therapist, and she continues to suffer
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00:39:50.760 --> 00:39:55.440
mental trauma and distrust. Talia slowly started to distance herself
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from Shia. She began this process by planning to escape
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00:39:58.960 --> 00:40:03.079
from Labuff when the opportunity arose. However, Shi's fixation on
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controlling her and surveilling her made the prospect of escape
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both difficult and dangerous. Enter around March of twenty nineteen,
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she attempted to escape from his house one day. She
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packed up her belongings and her bags and she was
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going to leave La and Shia. However, while doing so,
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Shia showed up unannounced at the rented home where she
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was staying. The entire incident was witnessed by the housekeeper
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who was helping her pack at the time. In her
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own words, the housekeeper provided a sworn testimony that said,
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Shi yelled at her that she had to come with him.
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Shi hesitated and remained where she was in the room.
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When she refused to go with Shi, Shi appeared to
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grow angrier and moved toward her. Then he violently grabbed
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her and lifted her off the ground. The housekeeper further
655
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relates that after Shi had lifted her into the air,
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he forcibly carried her into a separate room. She said
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she then heard the door to this room locked from
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the inside, and she tried to confirm the door was
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locked by pulling on it. Shay continued to scream at
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t Leah. He yelled so loudly I could hear him
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from outside the room, she said. I waited outside the
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room while this occurred. Shai kept yelling at her for
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a considerable amount of time. Eventually, I observed Shai opened
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the door to exit the room where he had been
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keeping her. As he left the room, Shi first appeared
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to notice me watching him, so he stared at me,
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00:41:38.760 --> 00:41:43.079
but he did not say anything. The housekeeper also testified
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that she quickly went to te Lea's side to see
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how she was doing, and she observed that she was
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in a very traumatized state. She appeared to have been
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crying and her voice was very weak. When I asked
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her if Shi had taken her into the room and
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kept her there against her will, she confirmed that he
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had indeed done that. Unfortunately, Laboff soon returned, dashing to
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Leah's plans to escape from him. Beginning enter around March
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of twenty nineteen, she began to experience unusual and painful
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physical symptoms. Shortly thereafter, she confronted Shai about her symptoms,
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and he admitted he had suffered from a STD which
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had been diagnosed years earlier. Shayer admitted he never told
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her about the condition, even though they had been sexually
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intimate for months. Further, Shi admitted that he had experienced
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a flare up of his disease in December of twenty nineteen,
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but worked to hide its outward symptoms from her by
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applying makeup. Despite experiencing a flare up of the symptoms,
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Labeff continued to engage in sex with her, further exposing
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her to his disease. Shocked and horrified by this revelation,
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she consulted a doctor who performed blood work and confirmed
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that she had been infected with Labbas's disease. Tragically, Talia
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had later learned she was not the first person he
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had transmitted this disease too. Talia learned that at least
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one other woman that Lebeff had been in a relationship
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with had contracted the disease from him, and that he
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had engaged in similar attempts to hides condition from that
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person while engaging in sex. Talia engaged in multiple therapy
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sessions with Lebeff in an attempt to salvage the relationship. However,
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his unpredictable and violent behavior did not change. Eventually, after
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she refused endless streams of calls and text messages, Lebeff
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ended his relationship with her via text message. She later
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learned that Lebeff had been cheating with another woman during
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this time, but finally free of him, she began the
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long and difficult process of healing from his abuse. Then,
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it goes on to say, as part of her path
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toward healing, she came into contact with Carolyn Foe, another
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survivor of his abuse. Carolyn dated Leaboff during the years
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twenty ten to two thousand and seven, and it was
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a well documented and public relationship. Behind the publicity. However,
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Labeff subjected Carolyn to the same kind of abuse, physical
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and mental, that he inflicted on to Lea, fuel by
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his jealous, impulsive, and irrational ways. For example, just as
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Shi was fixated on to Leea's former fiance and would
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accuse her constantly of still being emotionally drawn to him,
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Hi would berate Carolyn for something as innocent as looking
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at the male waiting staff at a restaurant. Chi would
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furiously claim that Carolyn was attracted to any male other
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than him, just because she happened to be looking at them,
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and it would instigate him into anger. Carolyn's experience with
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Lebeuff was disturbingly similar to to Leia's, demonstrating his pattern
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and practice of abusing women. For instance, in February twenty twelve,
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Labuff was traveling with Carolyn to New York City for
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Fashion Week. During their flight East, paid for by Carolyn,
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Lebuff angrily berated her for wearing expensive sunglasses and repeatedly
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humiliated her, causing her to burst out into tears in
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front of passengers on the plane. He disappeared the moment
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they did. Planed at JFK Airport, Carolyn traveled to the
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hotel alone, but could not find Shy and went to bed.
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Shai eventually shut up at the hotel, extremely drunk, waking
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her by banging loudly on the door. Carolyn let le
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Buff into the room, where, after babbling incoherently, he promptly
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passed out on the couch, face up. Fearful he might
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choke on his own vomit in that position, she helped
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carry him into the shower, where she sat him upright
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and turned on the water. He continued to sit in
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that position, mumbling to himself. Believing he was no longer
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a danger, she returned to bed. Later that night, Carolyn
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awoke to Shy on top of her, drunk, naked, wet
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and screaming. He held her down by her arms, causing
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intense pain and leaving bruises, and then head butted her violently,
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causing her to bleed on the hotel bed. Likewise, following
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a party at the Chateau Mayormont in early twenty eleven,
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Carolyn kept Shy from driving home because of how drunk
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he was. They held a taxi. On the ride home
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to Sherman Oaks, Lebuff repeatedly braided and assaulted her in
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front of the driver and whispered to her, you know
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I'm going to kill you. Once home, he vomited in
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the hallway. The next morning, Shai asked Carolyn about the
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vomit in the hallway, claiming he had blacked out and
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did not remember anything. Carolyn has chosen to ali with
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Talah against lebuff in order to protect other women from
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ever having to endure his abuse. So that is about
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as disturbing a lawsuit as you could ever hear, right,
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And as soon as this comes out, shit totally hits
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the fan for Shia. At this point, he is practically
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blacklisted from Hollywood. This guy responsible for two billion plus
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00:47:23.599 --> 00:47:28.960
in revenue from his films can't even get a job now. Personally,
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remember he had reconciled with Mia, and in twenty twenty
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two they actually welcome a baby. And you know, after
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this lawsuit, the birth of a baby, maybe you're thinking
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Shi has finally hit right bottom and he's getting us
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life right. And it seemed like maybe so for a
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few years anyway, But then in late twenty twenty five, however,
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he splits with Mia again. So Shai needs a chain,
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a venue, maybe a place where he can blend in
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a little bit in that place becomes the Big Easy,
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New Orleans, about an hour from where I'm recording right now,
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and that brings me to just a few weeks from
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this recording. Mardi Gras twenty twenty six is February seventeenth.
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It's about one o'clock am when Shia outside of what
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is known as Our Bar in New Orleans. This is
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a very popular spot for locals. He's thirty nine years
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old at this point, drunk as fuck, which I mean,
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it's Monti Gras. Everyone is drunk af but Shia tends
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to get aggressive when he drinks too much, if y'all
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have yet to figure that one out, so much so
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that at one point he's asked to leave the bar.
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Now according to reports, he did leave, but then he
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returned a little while later, he gets bounced out again
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and while outside his cell phone cameras rolling, he is
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caught in several altercations with people. Video showed Shi yelling
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some serious homophobic shit, if you will. When he shoves
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one guy to the ground, he punches another guy of
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the nose. Police get called and ambulance and he gets
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looked at, and then he's hauled off to jail. Now,
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that's one side of the story. In this next clip,
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you're gonna hear shy aside from Shi hisself.
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On Marty Gros.
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Everybody's got motivations on Marty Gron, Martin gra Is, Marty Gras,
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God bless these dudes. I'm sorry to hope in Marty
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gra they want to make it an extra thing.
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I understand. Go ahead, bro, go ahead, go ahead, get it,
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go go go go well.
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I just think great, Like if you're gonna stay out
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and keep doing this.
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Look here here's my truth. I'm around. I'm in the
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street all day.
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I'm outside all day long, all day long, before Marty
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grow after Marty Graw, I'm outside all day long. This
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city is love, bro. I get no fucking weirdo from
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no weird there's no there's not an ounce, not a
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smidgeon of any weirdo out here with me walking around,
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it's love, NonStop love.
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It's NonStop love from both sides. You feel like it's
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different in La in that way. No, LA's love too, bro.
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I'm like Will Smith, I'm like an uncle Doug.
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So I just move around.
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It's love everywhere. I don't get love, I get loved
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pretty much everywhere. The minute I get into trouble is
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with very a person who is after something, after what
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kind of thing, like inciting a reaction. I am an
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opportunity sometimes to someone. That's not to minimize my behavior,
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but I get it. I'm bright, and it's fuck when
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I walk around and I get listen if you're like
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a Twigs fan.
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Or something like.
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I don't know, Bro, I have no fucking idea. Bro,
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it's not my business. It's not my business. Here's what
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I know. I can only deal with my side. My
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side is this my behavior bullshit I gotta deal with that?
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Does mean I got to go to rehab again? I'm
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just not into it, Bro. I don't think my answers
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are there. I don't, I really, I genuinely don't. If
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I genuinely did, I go. I don't think I have
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a drinking problem. I think I have a different problem,
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and I'm going to address it.
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What's that problem?
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I think I have a small man complex, some kind
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of napoleonic I don't know what it is. I think
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it's something that has to do with anger and ego
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more so than my drinking. But that's where I'm at now.
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On my journey and I'm trying to navigate it.
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I'll figure it out.
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What kind of things set off that anger? What kind
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of things set off that anger? I mean, boy, I
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haven't experienced for a while. But I'll be honest with you,
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big gay people are scary to me. What do you
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mean When I'm like standing by myself and three gay
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dudes are next to me touching my leg, I get scared.
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I'm sorry. If that's homophobic, then I'm that. Yeah, that
838
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happened a lot.
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No, it just happened one time recently. Well that's why
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I got arrested.
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Oh okay, yeah, so you were sort of being groped
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and surrounded.
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I'm not gonna say that because my lawyer said, oh fuck.
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Dude, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay. We can make it.
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00:52:07.760 --> 00:52:09.719
I am.
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Wrong for touching anyone ever, And that's the end of
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my statement on this whole shit sounds good, cool.
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Now, look gay straight, Bye, Jim Chapman. Don't give a fuck.
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But if some dude puts his hands on my leg
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in a bar being a straight guy, as far as
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I'm concerned, I might respond in kind the same way
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Shi did because you just assaulted me. So if that
853
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is true, I don't blame Shi for showing them hands
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if you will. Now, look, one thing I can say
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00:52:52.559 --> 00:52:56.840
is that Shai is definitely about it now. He's not
856
00:52:57.039 --> 00:53:01.000
no punk. He is down to fight you one hundred percent.
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00:53:02.159 --> 00:53:07.119
But the difference between me and Shia is that I
858
00:53:07.159 --> 00:53:11.480
ain't shy labuff. You can't be doing that shit when
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00:53:11.559 --> 00:53:17.039
you're shy labuff. Now he could be lying. It could
860
00:53:17.119 --> 00:53:20.360
be all bullshit, and he's using that as an excuse
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00:53:20.440 --> 00:53:23.599
for why he made the slurs and for why he
862
00:53:23.679 --> 00:53:26.800
threw hands at people to begin with. And the problem
863
00:53:26.840 --> 00:53:30.800
here for Shia is there's proof of what he did.
864
00:53:31.320 --> 00:53:35.079
That's all on video. It's all on camera, including the
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00:53:35.159 --> 00:53:39.599
volume version of it. But there is absolutely no proof
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00:53:40.199 --> 00:53:43.079
of his side of things. There's no video of people
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putting their hands on another man putting his hands on
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his leg. Not saying it didn't happen. I'm just saying
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there's no proof of it. There's proof of the shit
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Shi did. So, as I said, he gets arrested, he
871
00:53:54.079 --> 00:53:57.679
boils out, and what do you think he does, Well,
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00:53:57.719 --> 00:54:02.199
he goes right back to freaking Marti gras, y'all. He
873
00:54:02.280 --> 00:54:04.840
not only goes back to Marti Gras. He kind of
874
00:54:04.880 --> 00:54:08.559
flaunts it. He takes the bucking paperwork that he had
875
00:54:08.599 --> 00:54:12.360
and people taking pictures with him. He's holding the booking
876
00:54:12.440 --> 00:54:14.920
paperwork in his mouth. He's I'm must making a joke
877
00:54:14.960 --> 00:54:18.880
out of it. Now, that's a problem that in Shi
878
00:54:19.000 --> 00:54:23.079
Lah buff. If you're listening to this, because you're only
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00:54:23.079 --> 00:54:26.920
about forty five minutes from me, that's a problem. Brother.
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00:54:27.920 --> 00:54:32.000
You're thirty nine fucking years old. That's acting like a
881
00:54:32.039 --> 00:54:36.559
fifteen year old. You need to grow up on that shit.
882
00:54:36.719 --> 00:54:39.119
You should have went home after that. Marti Gras or no,
883
00:54:39.320 --> 00:54:44.119
Marti Gras. You need to get some handlers around you,
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00:54:44.280 --> 00:54:47.239
some people you trust that can tell you when you're
885
00:54:47.280 --> 00:54:51.559
doing dumb shit. Just my opinion. I mean, to me,
886
00:54:52.400 --> 00:54:57.400
it's just crazy. This guy cannot find the off switch, y'all. Now,
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00:54:57.440 --> 00:55:02.000
to wrap this up, my thought are actually with Shy
888
00:55:02.239 --> 00:55:06.119
because I'm worried about this dude right now. And again,
889
00:55:06.280 --> 00:55:09.480
if he's listening to this, I am praying for you, brother.
890
00:55:10.000 --> 00:55:13.679
I really hope this guy gets his shit together before
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he totally self destructs to the point that there's no
892
00:55:19.400 --> 00:55:23.719
coming back from it. And all of you, thank you
893
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so much for listening. Look check out the Patreon commercial
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much without their support. So thank you so much. I
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love y'all more than you know. And until next time.
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