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Shia LaBeouf’s mother has died, the actor revealed.
LaBeouf, 36, said in an emailed interview withThe Hollywood Reporterposted Thursday thathis mother passed away Aug. 27 at age 80.
The actor was with his mother, Shayna Saide, when she died of heart failure at a Los Angeles hospital, according to the outlet.
“She was frantic,” he said. “She was deeply interested in God and spirituality her whole life, but she didn’t know him. Hence her last moments.”
The actor — who previously said in 2014 that he “became a Christian man” during the making of the 2014 war filmFury— has now adopted Catholicism into his life.
“Her greatest gift to me was to promote, in her dying, the necessity of a relationship with God,” he wrote toTHR. “Not an interest, not just a belief, but a relationship built on proof as tangible as a hug. Her last gift to me was the ultimate persuasion for faith. She was a good girl.”
LaBeouf, whose mother is Jewish and who previously had abar mitzvah as well as a baptism, studied Catholicism as he prepared for his upcoming movie,Padre Pio, about the Catholic saint of the same name.
“It was seeing other people who have sinned beyond anything I could ever conceptualize also being found in Christ that made me feel like, ‘Oh, that gives me hope,’ " LaBeouf said in a recent conversation with Bishop Robert Barron of theWord on Fire Catholic Ministriesabout religion. “I started hearing experiences of other depraved people who had found their way — in this — and it made me feel like I had permission.”
On an episode of pal Jon Bernthal’sReal Onespodcast, the actor said the depiction of his fatherJeffrey Craig LaBeoufas abusive in his 2019 screenplay debutHoney Boywas “f—ing nonsense” as he opened up about making amends with the people he’s wronged.
“Here’s a man who I’ve done vilified on a grand scale,” LaBeouf said afterplaying a version of his own dadin the movie, in which the character was named James Lort.
LaBeouf wrote the screenplay forHoney Boyduring a previous in-treatment program. The star recently revealed that he’s627 days soberafterseeking treatment againin 2020, followingallegations of abusefrom his exFKA Twigs, whom hebegan datingafter starring together in the film.
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LaBeouf previously opened up abouthis parents' reaction to the filmduring an interview withThe Hollywood Reporter.
“Yeah, my mother, my dad, they’ve seen it,” LaBeouf said in 2019. “It was tough for them to watch it. But I think also, they can have distance with it as well. I mean they really, more than they care about this movie s—, they care about their kid, you know?”
source: people.com
