Shia LaBeouf shed tears as he recalled how his wife Mia Goth was the only member of his family to visit him virtually in rehab despite having no contact with her for two years.
Shia, 36, revealed he went weeks without a visitor during his treatment center’s ‘Family Week’, which saw loved ones visit virtually via Skype.
Speaking on Jon Bernthal’s podcast Real Ones, Shia said he grew demoralized having not a single visitor dial in. Until one day Mia decided to visit him.
‘No one showed up’: Shia LaBeouf shed tears as he recalled how Mia Goth was the only member of his family to visit him virtually in rehab despite them having no contact for two years
‘We had been estranged for like years because of my jealousy,’ he said. ‘She went and did a movie with another actor and I thought she was cheating on me so then I cheated on another… weak s**t. Little boy s**t. Like nonsense.
‘We hadn’t talked for two years when all this s**t hit. And I wound up at this rehab… and they do something called family week. And every week, on a Sunday, everybody whose involved in the program has their family show up on these Skype calls,’ Shia began. ‘And everybody will show up in the same room, and your mother, your father, your brother, your sister, your wife, your friend, whatever.’
‘It’s you, the whole squad of you, that in this group,’ Shia clarified when asked who was present during the call. ‘Like 12 of us in my class. Everybody’s family pops up on the screen, and week one no one shows up for me. No one. They got the calls, I know they got the calls. But no one showed up. My mother, my father, no one. No one showed up. Manager, friends, no one showed up.
‘Week two, same thing. So I’m sitting in this room, and even the person whose like therapizing me, she’s starting to feel like this, she’s empathizing with where I’m at. Everybody else in the room… this isn’t just alcoholics and s**t, this is like f**king arsonists and child predators and all kinds of wild people in this group, and they got people showing up for them. And I don’t have nobody showing up for me.’
Dejected, Shia told his therapist he did not plan on attending the next family week in order to avoid going through the pain of not having a visitor all over again.
‘Mia is on the screen’: Shia described his surprise at seeing Goth join his treatment center’s family week; Goth and LaBeouf pictured 2014
‘I don’t want to subject myself to this s**t’: The Even Stevens actor planned on skipping out on another family week but was persuaded by his therapist to attend the next one
‘Week two, week three. I’m there 90 days… there comes a point where family week comes around and I say to my therapist, “I’m not going to go. I don’t want to subject myself to this s**t. I’m on a path, and you know, let me just stay here. I don’t want to keep reminding myself of how f**ked my situation is.” And she says, “Nah I think you should show up this week.”‘
Shia anticipated seeing his mother on screen, but to his surprise, it was Mia.
‘And I show up thinking, alright my mom’s gonna be on there. My mom will be on. And Mia is on the screen,’ Shia said.
Shia’s eyes began to well up with tears as he recalled how Mia continued supporting him.
‘I don’t deserve that kind of s**t’: Shia’s eyes began to well up with tears as he recalled how Mia continued supporting him
‘And, you know like, you don’t deserve that kind of shit,’ he said. ‘You don’t deserve that kind of shit. I don’t deserve that kind of s**t. I didn’t put her through years and years of f**king nonsense. I don’t have nothing to offer her either. You know, I’m in the middle of my s**t… I’m like two months into this program. I don’t have nothing going on… I’m making this list, she’s at the top of the list but I’m not reaching out to her, nothing like that,’ he said, wiping away tears.
‘So they let her go first, ’cause I can’t even f**king believe, and they all know ’cause I ain’t have no family show up for me. She unmutes, and she’s like, “Hi Shia!” She’s prepping a movie, she ain’t got no f**king time for this.
‘No, but she found time and she said “Hi Shia.” And we just smile, we ain’t got nothing else to say, but she saved my f**king life, dog. Before the kid, before the job… before anything, was this woman’s face.
Better together: LaBeouf pictured with Goth back in 2014
‘There were no promises made, was no long conversations being had, nothing, just her presence. The ministry of presence. Sometimes that’s all you need to offer a person who’s in a situation like that. Just to be present. And she was present for me at a time when I didn’t deserve to have nobody in my life. Especially her.’
‘She’s a real one. She’s a real one… it’s the first time I really understood love, because I have nothing to give. And I was sitting there thinking like, “Well I don’t have nothing. It’s not sexy to be with me. Don’t you get it?”
Shia struggled to comprehend how Mia was able to set public opinion of him aside to support him.
‘People out here accusing me of like putting makeup on my genitals and shooting dogs and s**t. That’s what I’m being accused of, and you’re showing up for me like you’re going to be tied to this s**t? It didn’t make no f**king sense.
‘It didn’t make no f**king sense’: Shia struggled to comprehend how Mia was able to set public opinion of him aside to support him; pictured 2014
Since reuniting, Shia and Mia have gone on to welcome a daughter together, a five-month old girl named Isabel.
Shia and Mia began seeing each other in 2012. They tied the knot in Las Vegas in 2016, but divorced two years later, and Shia was involved with both FKA Twigs and actress Margaret Qualley during that time.
Shia and Mia reconciled sometime after the Honey Boy actor and Margaret broke up. They were then seen wearing wedding rings in March 2020, according to E!
Though things are going from strength to strength with Mia, the actor is currently being sued by his former flame FKA Twigs.
Twigs – real name Tahliah Debrett Barnett – accused LaBeouf in a lawsuit of knowingly giving her a sexually transmitted disease and also accused him of ‘relentless abuse,’ including sexual battery, assault and infliction of emotional distress. He has denied the claims.
Shia has also recently landed at the center of a dispute with Olivia Wilde over his departure from her film Don’t Worry Darling. Wilde says she fired Shia while the actor insists he quit and has provided evidence backing up his claims.