Shia LaBeouf revealed that his on-again, off-again partner, Mia Goth, was the one who restarted their romance, leading to their reconciliation in 2021.
The actress, 28, reached out to her “Nymphomaniac” co-star, 36, while he was in rehab amid sexual abuse allegations, LaBeouf said on the “Real Ones with Jon Bernthal” podcast Wednesday.
“She saved my fucking life,” the Even Stevens alum said of Goth, who he’d been estranged from for two years previously.
“She was there for me at a time when I didn’t deserve to have no one in my life, especially not her,” he added. “She gave me hope when I really ran on fumes.”
Now that the duo are back together and raising their 5-month-old baby, a daughter named Isabel, LaBeouf is deliberate about not “spiral shame”[ing].”
He explained, “[That] doesn’t make me useful. It makes me useful to stand up for my wife and be stable for my wife.”
The Daytime Emmy winner gave an example, telling Bernthal how he behaved “stable” when their little one was diagnosed with hemangioma, a benign vascular tumor on her head.
LaBeouf went on to gush about his “f–king happy” kid, saying she’s “testing” him and holding him “accountable” as an “ultimate probation officer.”
The ‘Honey Boy’ star said: ‘There’s a lot I need to work on. Having a daughter and knowing that one day your daughter will look up your name in a search engine and find that you are a deplorable, disgusting piece of shit, that st hits.
“I now have until she is literate to build a relationship with her where she knows me more than this idea of who I am in the audience,” he continued.
As a formerly “pleasure-seeking, selfish, self-centered, dishonest, inconsiderate, fearful human being,” the former Disney Channel star plans to “make up” for the “rest of [his] to live.”
LaBeouf, who admitted to cheating on “every woman” he’s been with, made headlines in November 2021 when he reunited with a pregnant Goth in a Chuck E. Cheese. Their outing came almost a year after FKA sued Twigs LaBeouf over their alleged abusive relationship.
The couple’s daughter arrived in March and the new dad waited until last week to announce her name.
“She is five months old and just starting to develop the last half of her smile; it’s AMAZING,” he wrote in an email to Variety.