Shia LaBeouf has launched his #IAMSORRY installation earlier this year and it was about him sitting in silence and people were invited to do whatever they wanted to him.
The actor once told the Ellen DeGeneres show back in October that he was surprised with how the installation came to be. He pointed out that he was dumbfounded when people became emphatic with him.
He shares, 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 "Fury" star's installation has lasted for five days in California but it is only now that he has revealed one incident during the said installation that a woman actually raped him.
LaBeouf said in an email interview with Dazed and Confused that not all who visited him treated him with respect. He then talked about the woman who took advantage of him.
He said, "One woman who came with her boyfriend, who was out side the door when this happened, whipped my legs for 10 minutes and then striped my clothing and proceeded to rape me...then walked out with her lipstick smudged to her awaiting boyfriend who i image was quite hurt by it. All this happened in front of hundreds of people...Yea it was no good. Not just for me but her man as well."
LaBeouf added that it was much more difficult for him as his girlfriend, Mia Goth, was in line to see him because it was Valentine's Day and they did not see each other for five days as he slept at the gallery for the duration of his event.
He added, "There was no communication. So it really hurt her as well as i guess the news of it traveled through the line. She was only about 25 people back when she came in she asked for an explanation and i couldn't speak so we both sat with this unexplained trauma silently. It was painful. The hardest part of the show."
Aside from that, he also talked about people who came in and took his bag off, take a selfie with him and eventually leave. He added that it was terrible.
However, despite being disrespected, he said he was happy with what he did. He wrote, "Almost everyone who came in had preconceived notions of what they were going to experience, and as soon as Nastja Rönkkö brought them through the curtain, everything changed. I went from being a celebrity or object to a fellow human. I was genuinely remorseful. It wasn't manipulation, I was heartbroken. People I've never met before came in and loved on me and with me. Some would hold my hand and cry with me, some would tell me to 'figure it out' or to 'be a man.' I've never experienced love like that; empathy, humanity."
