Shia LaBeouf Apologizes for Spitting on A Cop!!!

Shia LaBeouf appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Friday, where he opened up to Ellen DeGeneres about his bad boy behavior and the steps he’s taken to get back on track.

LaBeouf admits:

“I really don’t pay attention to stuff, but uh, what happened?”

The Fury star didn’t sugarcoat his troubles, saying:

“Man, I went through like an existential crisis, which turned into kind of like, a, explorations. I had some hiccups, some judgment errors.”

“Yeah, we had a table with all these implements,” the actor, 28, said of his #IAMSORRY performance exhibit. “You know, there was like an Indiana Jones whip and some pliers and…It was sort of no rules.”

“There was a lot of negativity online. So, I thought, ‘All right, well, let’s see what all this negativity is all about. Let’s invite it in,” LaBeouf said.

DeGeneres said “Let’s put pliers and a whip in front of people…”

LaBeouf confirmed,

“Yeah…so I figured maybe someone will pull my fingernails off. Basically I was sitting there with a bag over my head in this room. And we had these one-on-one situations where we’d invite one person at a time and they can do whatever they wanted. And there was also this bowl of these really malicious tweets. So, people would come in and read them. I was sitting in there broken. I was really truly apologetic, so I was sort of like apologizing to the public in a way. So, I thought for sure people were gonna come in and be super mean from what I’d been reading. But it wasn’t that way at all. It was very human. Once they got in there everything changed. They stopped looking at me as like an object they started looking at me as like a human and they were very loving. It was really human.”

The Lawless actor said of the virtual vitriol he faced in 2013:

“Well, I think it’s…We both suffer from the same thing. I got into this industry because I had this void. I’m a kid of abandonment, so I thought being good at being an actor would somehow fill that void…and so I think people just really want to make a mark.”

“So, people who are online making the comments really just want to make a mark. They want to have an effect. So, I think we suffer from the same thing, which is just a lack of attention and love.”

DeGeneres praised his insight, adding:

“I think no matter how you’re reaching for it everybody is trying to fill themselves up in some way. And you gotta do it yourself. And you gotta find out what that is that makes you feel whole and feel good. What scared you the most what got you out of that behavior?”

LaBeouf replied:

“Jail…Jail was quite scary.”

He added:

“I was there for…it felt like forever,”

“I think 24 hours, 25 hours.”

“I really went all the way with it. They put a Hannibal mask on me and a led jacket. It was very scary.”

He revealed why, saying: