In an interview with Dazed Digital's Aimee Cliff, Shia LaBeouf has revealed that during his #IAMSORRY performance art project earlier this year, a woman observer whipped him and proceeded to rape him.

Back in February, LaBeouf put on #IAMSORRY in Downtown Los Angeles. In the piece, he silently sat in a room alone, dressed in a tuxedo with a paper bag over his head. People would enter the room one at a time and these viewers, who became "actors," in the piece, could do whatever they wanted with him. Some held his hand and cried with him. Some told him to "figure it out" or to "be a man." One woman, however, sexually assaulted him. When asked if any experiences from the #IAMSORRY project stood out to him as "particularly moving or unsettling" he responded:


LaBeouf doesn't mention reporting the rape or pressing charges against the woman. His dedication to his art and metamodernism is clearly extreme, but that remains a horrifying experience.

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