Shia LaBeouf Claims His Father Never Hit Him, Regrets 'Honey Boy' Depiction

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Shia LaBeouf is setting some things straight about his 2019 film, . In a new appearance on Jon Bernthal's  podcast, LaBeouf said he felt like he «wronged» his father by depicting him as abusive in the film, which is loosely based on LaBeouf's childhood and the relationship between him and his father.«Here's a man who I've done vilified on a grand scale,» LaBeouf, who played a version of dad in the film, told Bernthal. «I wrote this narrative, which was just f***ing nonsense.

My dad was so loving to me my whole life. Fractured, sure. Crooked, sure. Wonky, for sure. But never was not loving, never was not there.»«He was always there...and I'd done a world press tour about how f***ed he was as a man,» he added.LaBeouf, who wrote the screenplay for during a previous in-treatment program, said that the film was basically a «woe is me» story about his life.

The 36-year-old actor revealed that he embellished elements of the story in order to create a narrative of a «wounded, fractured child» that audiences could root for." is basically a big 'woe is me' story about how f**ed my father is, and I wronged him.

I remember getting on the phone with him, and him being like, 'I never read this stuff in the script you sent.' Because I didn't put that s**t in there," LaBeouf explained.Adding, «I turned the knob up on certain s**t that wasn't real.»LeBeouf, who told at the time that the film was a «tough» watch for his family, also admitted that his dad never hit him, telling Bernthal that outside getting spanked once as a kid for smoking, the portrayal of his father is in no way accurate.«My dad never hit me, never.