{"id":19919,"date":"2022-08-30T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/byberry.com\/?p=19496"},"modified":"2024-01-31T10:41:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T14:41:22","slug":"shia-labeouf-catholicism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/shia-labeouf-catholicism\/","title":{"rendered":"Shia LaBeouf claims his  &#8220;life was on fire&#8221; before converting to Catholicism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where has he been? Apparently, Shia LaBeouf has revealed details about his spiritual journey into religion and is now opening up about it. The Transformers star participated in a 90-minute interview with Bishop Robert Barron and his Words on Fire series, which is streamed on YouTube. LaBeouf remembers turning to religion when his &#8220;life was on fire,&#8221; noting that he had always considered himself an agnostic who liked to argue but that he was &#8220;never an atheist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was walking out of hell. It wasn&#8217;t like I willingly came in here on a white horse, singing showtunes,&#8221; he told Barron. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t want to be an actor anymore and my life was a mess.&#8221; The celebrity claimed that he had hurt many people in the past and that he was so ashamed of himself that he considered suicide.&#8221; I had a gun on the table. I was outta here,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t want to be alive anymore when all this happened. Shame like I had never experienced before\u2014the kind of shame that you forget how to breathe. You don&#8217;t know where to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At that time, LaBeouf accepted the lead role in a film about the Italian Franciscan Capuchin friar, Padre Pio. The actor remained at a monastery and began researching Catholicism in order to prepare for the role. LaBeouf claimed that at this time, he had &#8220;no friends in my life&#8221; and that when he started reading the gospel, he had a &#8220;deep desire to hold on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And it stops being a prep for a movie and starts being something beyond all that,&#8221; he went on. &#8220;I know now my God was using my ego to draw me to Him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>LaBeouf stated how recent allegations of abuse against him resulted in his mother and him growing apart. He said his mother was &#8220;embarrassed beyond all imagination&#8221; when the charges first came to light. &#8220;The news that had come out was like, &#8216;I&#8217;ve been abusive to women, I&#8217;m shooting dogs, I&#8217;ve been willingly giving women STDs,'&#8221; he said and called the accusation &#8220;depraved,&#8221; according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1343640\/shia-labeouf-says-his-life-was-on-fire-before-turning-to-religion-in-rare-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EOnline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The actor, on the other hand, was able to find common ground with his mother, and he claims that prayer helped him get through the issue. &#8220;It was seeing other people who have sinned beyond anything I could ever conceptualize also being found in Christ that made me feel like, &#8216;Oh, that gives me hope,'&#8221; he said. &#8220;I started hearing experiences of other depraved people who had found their way in this, and it made me feel like I had permission.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>LaBeouf&#8217;s ex-girlfriend, musician FKA twigs, filed a lawsuit against him in 2020, claiming him of &#8220;relentless abuse&#8221; and intentionally infecting her with an STD. In a subsequent court file from 2021, LaBeouf refuted the allegations, claiming that the singer &#8220;has not suffered any injury or damage as a result of [his] actions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>LaBeouf has recently become a dad of a baby girl named Mia Goth.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: John Bauld from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0 &lt;https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where has he been? Apparently, Shia LaBeouf has revealed details about his spiritual journey into religion and is now opening up about it. The Transformers star participated in a 90-minute interview with Bishop Robert Barron and his Words on Fire series, which is streamed on YouTube. 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