Valuetainment - “Big Gay People Scare Me” - Shia LaBeouf OPENS UP On Arrests In Raw Interview

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00:00:12.660 Let me get to a story here with Shia LaBeouf.

00:00:15.320 You guys saw we saw Shia LaBeouf, and I know this is a little culture, but I want to go to it.

00:00:19.120 One of my favorite actors of all time is Shia LaBeouf.

00:00:21.340 I stopped watching Transformers once he was no longer in it.

00:00:24.420 He does a great job, but he was interviewed by the Channel 5 guy.

00:00:27.460 What's his name, Rob?

00:00:28.120 Andrew Callahan.

00:00:29.180 Andrew Callahan, who does a very good job getting reports and interviews.

00:00:34.940 Is this the one where he's talking about he's afraid of people?

00:00:38.000 Yes.

00:00:38.380 So this is the reason behind his arrest, guys.

00:00:40.580 Just brace for impact, because he's very raw here.

00:00:43.780 Go ahead, Rob.

00:00:45.540 I'll be honest with you. 1.00

00:00:46.780 Big gay people are scary to me. 1.00

00:00:49.500 Didn't see that one coming. 0.99

00:00:50.500 When I'm standing by myself and three gay dudes are next to me, touching my leg, I get scared. 0.99

00:00:57.500 I'm sorry. 0.78

00:00:59.180 If that's homophobic, then I'm that.

00:01:02.480 Yeah.

00:01:03.900 Does that happen a lot?

00:01:05.200 No, it just happened one time.

00:01:06.920 Recently.

00:01:07.880 Well, that's why I got arrested.

00:01:10.320 Oh, okay.

00:01:11.120 Yeah.

00:01:11.560 So you were sort of being groped and surrounded.

00:01:13.880 I'm not going to say that, because my lawyer said, oh, dude.

00:01:16.680 It's okay.

00:01:17.100 It's okay.

00:01:17.400 It's okay.

00:01:17.660 I am wrong for touching anyone ever. 0.99

00:01:25.960 And that's the end of my statement on this whole shit. 0.99

00:01:30.580 Sounds good. 0.99

00:01:31.440 Cool.

00:01:32.720 Cool.

00:01:33.540 Vinny.

00:01:34.380 Well, I mean.

00:01:36.180 Have you seen the rest of the clip?

00:01:37.440 Some of the stuff he says.

00:01:39.580 Is wild.

00:01:40.160 Yeah, it's wild.

00:01:40.760 Is wild.

00:01:41.460 But, you know, again, this is his point.

00:01:44.160 His lawyer said, don't say anything.

00:01:45.260 We have to kind of take his word for it.

00:01:47.320 But he also opened up about a very dark period about his life.

00:01:50.420 He admitted that he struggled with suicidal thoughts.

00:01:52.820 He said he had a gun in his mouth at one point.

00:01:55.160 And that the reason he didn't pull the trigger, according to him, was the love for his mother.

00:01:59.260 Which you guys all know.

00:02:01.220 I can understand that.

00:02:02.500 I've never been there.

00:02:03.960 But I can only imagine.

00:02:05.920 Can you play that clip, Rob?

00:02:07.000 Is this it?

00:02:07.600 No.

00:02:07.920 This one, Pat, is.

00:02:09.640 And mind you.

00:02:10.500 His mother's Jewish.

00:02:11.980 His father, I believe, was Catholic.

00:02:14.560 So if your mother's Jewish, you're Jewish. 0.63

00:02:16.580 He's a Catholic.

00:02:17.920 And what he said about Jesus, he asked him.

00:02:20.000 I sent you to clip, Rob.

00:02:20.900 He asked him, Pat.

00:02:21.880 He goes, what would you do if you stood in front of Jesus?

00:02:25.500 What would you say?

00:02:27.100 Here's what he ought to say.

00:02:28.000 And this is what he would say about if he saw Jesus Christ, what he would do.

00:02:33.540 What would you say to Jesus if you could meet him? 0.99

00:02:35.980 I wouldn't say shit. 0.99

00:02:39.120 Really? 0.99

00:02:39.940 Nah.

00:02:41.740 Bro, I kiss him.

00:02:46.180 I kiss him.

00:02:47.180 I kiss his feet.

00:02:49.680 I don't want to say nothing.

00:02:55.160 Chill out with these questions, Andrew.

00:02:59.780 My bad.

00:03:00.440 Didn't that even make you emotional?

00:03:01.920 Yeah, I'm a real Catholic, bro.

00:03:03.060 A real one.

00:03:04.040 I just thought you had thought about it.

00:03:05.080 Nah, I'm a real one, bro.

00:03:07.220 I want to believe.

00:03:08.360 Mm-hmm.

00:03:08.960 It's something.

00:03:09.560 Well, hey, bro. 1.00

00:03:10.180 You got to hit your head into the wall hard enough where you just go, fuck it. 1.00

00:03:15.300 It's the only way, dog. 1.00

00:03:16.660 That's how you find God?

00:03:17.500 Yep, for me.

00:03:19.200 For the hard-headed ones?

00:03:20.600 Yeah, you got to go hard.

00:03:22.020 What do you think was the real-life equivalent of you smashing your head on the wall? 0.99

00:03:25.020 I put a gun in my mouth. 1.00

00:03:26.020 I was ready to kill myself and blow my brains out. 1.00

00:03:27.740 You can stop it, Rob. 0.99

00:03:28.880 Rob, you can stop it.

00:03:29.920 Guys, it's clear.

00:03:31.020 If you see the whole interview, it's clear he's going through something heavy.

00:03:34.600 I've heard a lot of stuff from his mouth that what he's gone through, his family and everything like that.

00:03:38.920 The level of pain, there's no words.

00:03:40.320 It's like he's struggling, and I just hope he finds peace, Pat, and healing because I thought when I saw him on Jon Bernthal's podcast, I was like, oh, okay.

00:03:49.040 I believe he had a child.

00:03:50.620 Did he have a kid, Pat?

00:03:51.680 And the girl left him, and somebody's suing him and all that stuff.

00:03:55.460 I feel, as a Christian, I feel what he is going through.

00:03:59.760 Like, it's obviously something dark.

00:04:02.480 He's been there.

00:04:03.060 And, I mean, I don't think drinking by yourself in the streets of Mardi Gras at that level of celebrity is something.

00:04:08.880 He did say something also, Pat, that he hates somebody, Rob.

00:04:13.200 What is this?

00:04:13.800 Yeah, Mike Piazza.

00:04:15.220 Pull up that one, Rob. 0.87

00:04:15.960 I saw Mike Piazza the other day.

00:04:17.540 Oh, you saw him?

00:04:19.260 Did he sign anything?

00:04:20.580 I saw him in South Beach.

00:04:21.680 Type in Shia LaBeouf and type in Shia LaBeouf and Mike Piazza.

00:04:24.260 Guys.

00:04:24.640 Is this it?

00:04:25.260 Yeah.

00:04:25.720 Go ahead.

00:04:26.100 Watch this, Adam. 1.00

00:04:27.660 Your picture's like a fucking, like I'm a golden retriever or a governor or something like that because I like what it does for people's lives. 1.00

00:04:34.460 I remember trying to get Mike Piazza's autograph, motherfucker. 1.00

00:04:37.080 I mean, for my whole life. 0.99

00:04:38.940 Mike Piazza.

00:04:39.840 Were you waiting outside the fence?

00:04:41.340 Every day, this guy, bro.

00:04:43.020 So, yeah, we used to go to Dodger games.

00:04:45.580 Big Brothers program used to get these tickets out. 0.99

00:04:47.600 You'd go to a fucking Dodger game. 0.99

00:04:49.000 Me and all of them dudes would be sitting in the parking lot. 1.00

00:04:51.540 Brent Butler always signed.

00:04:52.960 Hideo Nomo always signed.

00:04:54.800 Mike Piazza.

00:04:56.280 Just a cold heart. 1.00

00:04:57.220 Mike Piazza, you're a bitch, bro. 1.00

00:04:59.240 Wow. 1.00

00:05:01.640 Fuck. 1.00

00:05:02.200 Fuck. 1.00

00:05:04.360 Well, let's come to this. 1.00

00:05:05.500 Oh, my God.

00:05:07.520 He goes, how many times?

00:05:08.620 90 times.

00:05:09.500 He goes, you're going to give me one autograph.

00:05:12.060 Can you imagine Mike Piazza sends him right now, I think, and he returns it?

00:05:15.920 When's the last time you even heard Mike Piazza's name?

00:05:17.840 Well, no, we talk because we debate catchers of all, great hitting catchers of all time,

00:05:21.820 and this guy was a good hitter.

00:05:22.600 But how do you process it, Adam, for yourself with Shia LaBeouf?

00:05:27.140 So, I know how much you enjoy this guy.

00:05:29.960 And, you know, the first time we learned about Shia for me, I think it was during Transformers.

00:05:33.700 But there's a story here.

00:05:35.400 This guy, I think, has been famous since he's 14, 15 years old.

00:05:38.720 Be careful when you want fame too soon because how many people in Hollywood have we seen get fame before they were mature?

00:05:47.380 Justin Bieber, we see what's going on with that guy these days.

00:05:49.700 You know, the song that you play where he's sitting in front of the mirror.

00:05:52.600 Talking about, what's the song that he sings?

00:05:56.000 Lonely.

00:05:56.760 Exactly.

00:05:57.240 It's so crazy.

00:05:58.200 Lindsay Lohan.

00:05:58.640 Very different, but yeah, it's a song.

00:06:00.020 Yeah, exactly.

00:06:00.580 My singing isn't what it used to be.

00:06:01.700 Lindsay Lohan, the Corey Hames of the world, the Drew Barrymars of the world.

00:06:06.420 You know, they all deal with trauma, drugs, alcohol, depression, all these things because why?

00:06:11.000 They wanted to be famous.

00:06:13.380 One thing I've learned is I don't want to be famous.

00:06:15.640 I want to deliver value.

00:06:17.300 I want to have influence.

00:06:18.300 I want people to have respect.

00:06:20.720 But I don't care about being liked.

00:06:22.680 I don't care about being famous.

00:06:24.120 A lot of these young people, especially people on the Internet these days, you know, streaming every single day, doing things for clicks and attention.

00:06:31.840 There's a very, very ugly side to all this.

00:06:35.200 And I just respect Shia LaBeouf for keeping it real.

00:06:37.940 You know, they say we're keeping it real goes wrong.

00:06:40.460 He's had some major issues in his life, in and out of jail, I think, in and out of rehab.

00:06:45.380 It looks like he's finding God.

00:06:46.740 It looks like he's a father now, and I respect that.

00:06:50.220 But there's probably not a realer guy who wears his heart on his sleeve more than Shia LaBeouf.

00:06:55.000 I know you think he's a great actor.

00:06:56.500 I think he's a good dude.

00:06:58.400 I think he's going through it.

00:06:59.340 He talked about his father as well, Vinny, in the interview.

00:07:01.940 Yeah.

00:07:02.440 I don't know if you caught that part about his father.

00:07:04.580 Can you find that clip, Rob, about his father? 0.80

00:07:07.020 Yeah, it's a messed up head.

00:07:08.360 And like you said, talent, artistic, you know, and fury in all the movies.

00:07:13.000 But there's something clearly going off, and I just pray that he gets, you know, he needs help.

00:07:18.300 He's been in AA.

00:07:19.080 He said all these people's phone numbers in his phone.

00:07:21.220 John AA, Mike AA, this AA.

00:07:23.560 It's all AA.

00:07:24.180 A-A-Rone. 1.00

00:07:25.300 Peabody, can I ask you?

00:07:26.520 Yeah.

00:07:27.380 This is the unthemed time you mentioned Shia LaBeouf.

00:07:30.500 Yep.

00:07:30.660 You don't have a lot of love for Hollywood or Hollywood actors.

00:07:34.580 Yeah.

00:07:34.800 Why do you feel so strongly for Shia LaBeouf?

00:07:37.920 I lost a friend like Shia LaBeouf.

00:07:40.340 I lost a friend like Shia LaBeouf.

00:07:42.060 You should never lost him.

00:07:43.640 And he had issues.

00:07:46.440 He had issues with his family.

00:07:47.620 He had issues with a lot of things that he was going through as a kid.

00:07:50.580 And probably one of my favorite guys to hang out with.

00:07:53.940 Really?

00:07:54.420 Hands down.

00:07:55.000 One of my favorite guys to hang out with.

00:07:56.260 I love him and miss him until today.

00:07:59.120 Armin Aracelyan.

00:08:01.800 And they had a lot of similar mannerisms that he would go through.

00:08:04.540 He had a hard time giving up a few things that he was on.

00:08:08.380 And, you know, alcohol and a few other things that he was dealing with.

00:08:11.420 But they give me similar vibes.

00:08:14.920 And Armin was not like a famous person.

00:08:17.080 It was just a very famous person in my life because I loved him.

00:08:19.740 But you see the pain young men, young boys go through.

00:08:24.480 And that shapes how they become grown men.

00:08:27.700 And part of it is somebody could have gotten a hold of him to give him better direction.

00:08:31.440 But, honestly, 80% of it when you become an adult is on you.

00:08:35.800 You got to make the decision to make better choices.

00:08:39.080 And it's not an easy thing to do.

00:08:40.420 You got to change your environment.

00:08:41.680 You got to, you know, he knows it.

00:08:43.380 The way he's speaking.

00:08:44.380 You know what I love about the way he's speaking?

00:08:45.960 He's speaking in a way that you can't give him advice.

00:08:53.800 You know what I mean when I'm saying you can't give him advice?

00:08:56.200 Like, he's speaking like, no, but, man, like, he's conflicted because he knows what he needs to do.

00:09:04.020 But he's not doing it.

00:09:05.800 He's heard the best advice from the most celebrated doctors, famous.

00:09:10.780 Anybody that's known for being the right person to give him advice.

00:09:16.000 Hollywood actors, celebrities, directors, business people.

00:09:18.900 Who does he not have access to?

00:09:20.920 Pastors, everybody.

00:09:21.740 And he knows at the end of the day, nobody can save you except his faith and you.

00:09:32.480 There's a part of it that you got to make the choices.

00:09:36.400 You know, a man named Greg back in the days would always say, pray like it's up to God, but, you know, work like it's up to you.

00:09:43.880 You know, you can say, change like it's up to you.

00:09:46.920 You know, make decisions like it's up to you.

00:09:49.500 Some people pray too much and rely just on a miracle to happen, but a part of it is you.

00:09:53.740 Rob, are you able to find that clip or is it still streaming and it's not going to show it up?

00:09:57.160 I found the part where he talks about his father going to AA.

00:09:59.380 I don't know if that's the part you're looking for.

00:10:00.880 No, it's another one, but it's okay.

00:10:02.580 I just think it was a very good, is this the one where he and his dad are going to AA together?

00:10:07.200 He talks about his, yeah, growing up in AA with his dad.

00:10:09.660 Let me see this clip.

00:10:10.800 Go for it.

00:10:11.500 My dad grew up in the room.

00:10:12.640 I learned how to smoke cigarettes in AA rooms.

00:10:14.860 My dad was in AA when I was, before I ever got on. 0.99

00:10:17.820 My dad was a junkie my whole life, so then, and God bless him, the fool ain't no more. 0.99

00:10:21.720 For real. 0.99

00:10:22.660 Yeah.

00:10:22.920 He's clean, I'm not. 1.00

00:10:24.240 G shit, bro. 1.00

00:10:25.020 Wow. 1.00

00:10:25.200 G shit. 1.00

00:10:25.840 Go ahead, dad. 0.99

00:10:26.820 What do you think has been like behind your decision to get sober every now and again?

00:10:31.120 Usually, I've been forced to get sober by the court system usually, and then women get scared, 1.00

00:10:36.440 you know, so then you got to stay sober for the girl.

00:10:38.400 So, you feel like most of your decision to, like, lay off the drinks was external factors?

00:10:43.380 Yeah.

00:10:43.900 The business, the job, holding on to the career, holding on to the girl, holding on to the thing.

00:10:47.960 You can pause it.

00:10:48.220 You can pause it.

00:10:48.840 But, again, to me, I know I grew up with guys like him, you know, but he wasn't, you know,

00:10:56.380 those guys didn't become famous.

00:10:58.620 The movie with his dad, Honey Boy, we've talked about this many times.

00:11:02.620 It's on Amazon if you've never seen it.

00:11:04.460 If you subscribe to Amazon, it kind of tells you the upbringing of how we grew up.

00:11:08.520 And then later on, he said, no, it's not true.

00:11:10.660 Yes, it is true.

00:11:11.440 I've heard so many things about the different stories.

00:11:13.280 But I just like him a lot as a character.

00:11:16.120 I'll just say one thing.

00:11:17.220 You know, I've never seen a Shia LaBeouf movie.

00:11:19.400 I saw little pieces of Transformer.

00:11:21.460 I've never seen one movie.

00:11:22.680 Not one.

00:11:23.140 Watch Fury.

00:11:23.700 And all, but I've watched hours of him doing podcasts.

00:11:28.600 The thing with Callahan now, what's the one with Jon Bernthal?

00:11:33.600 Yes.

00:11:34.000 You can't help but want to root for this guy.

00:11:36.340 You can't help but realize that Hollywood has chewed him up and spit him out.

00:11:41.760 And you said the correct thing.

00:11:43.440 This is on him.

00:11:44.500 He's probably dealt with all the advisors, all the people.

00:11:48.380 But at the end of the day, this is on him.

00:11:49.540 No, nothing.

00:11:50.180 Why he seems so conflicted.

00:11:50.800 No, you can't.

00:11:51.300 Listen, get into a better environment.

00:11:53.020 Get into a better environment.

00:11:54.980 Environment helps a lot.

00:11:56.960 But then at the end of the day, when you're by yourself.

00:11:59.680 I was interviewing Terrence Howard the other day.

00:12:01.960 And let me tell you, I haven't laughed this hard in a long time.

00:12:04.880 This was a very different kind of an interview.

00:12:06.440 We didn't talk anything about math and stuff like that.

00:12:08.940 But he said, you know, funny, I don't even know how to say this.

00:12:12.500 You might not even be able to say it.

00:12:15.000 I think you have to see.

00:12:15.940 When's the interview coming out?

00:12:17.720 I don't know when the interview's coming out.

00:12:19.220 Thursday.

00:12:19.760 Thursday.

00:12:20.140 He talked about how he struggles with porn until today.

00:12:25.000 And the things we were talking about, we talked.

00:12:27.380 So even today, he is, he said he's 56, 57 years old.

00:12:31.820 Even today, he knows what it is.

00:12:35.180 And it's like, listen, he was in Czechoslovakia 25 years old.

00:12:39.380 He begged the hotel to get rid of the TV.

00:12:42.500 He said, if you keep this TV here, I'm going to have to watch all the porn he got.

00:12:45.500 But by the way, when you watch, you're going to laugh so hard of the stuff he talked about.

00:12:51.580 It was, it was, it's real.

00:12:52.960 So you have to know these, these are, everybody knows who these guys are.

00:12:56.640 And when they give you that kind of fame at a young age, you know, try managing that at a young age.

00:13:01.060 But anyways, listen, as we're going through this, the one thing that we can't recognize enough for what they do is the armed forces.

00:13:10.100 The folks in the Army, Navy, Marines, you know, Air Force, every one of these guys on what they're doing.

00:13:17.380 Without them, you and I wouldn't have the freedom that we have to be safe, to go out there and do what we're doing.

00:13:22.620 Sometimes you forget about the military.

00:13:24.080 But if you're somebody that served in the military and you believe the future looks bright or you have a friend or family that does and you want to recognize them, Rob, if you can go up.

00:13:34.220 VT Merch, we have an armed force collection.

00:13:36.000 If you can go down a little bit, there's two hats that every time we get them, we can't keep them on.

00:13:40.260 That's one of them.

00:13:40.880 But keep going down, keep going down, keep going down, keep going down.

00:13:43.780 That one to the right.

00:13:44.680 I love that.

00:13:44.960 You see that one?

00:13:45.380 Zoom in.

00:13:46.240 This one, whenever it comes in, it goes just as quickly.

00:13:50.100 I love that.

00:13:50.540 It's an incredible, by the way, if you want to get, yeah, the future looks bright, green camo.

00:13:55.200 And then also, Rob, go back if you can.

00:13:57.580 There's another one as well on the bottom left.

00:13:59.280 Keep going, keep going, keep going right there.

00:14:00.980 Those two, those two are two of the most popular hats that we have for folks in the military that word with future looks bright on the right side.

00:14:08.160 So put the link below, Rob.

00:14:09.680 Go to vtmerch.com.

00:14:10.800 Place an order, especially at a time like this.

00:14:13.040 Represent our military for the patriotic job that they're doing out there.

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Valuetainment - March 03, 2026

“Big Gay People Scare Me” - Shia LaBeouf OPENS UP On Arrests In Raw Interview

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