Here's What's Going On With The New Shia LaBeouf Lawsuit From FKA Twigs

Warning: Discussion of intersexual battery.

FKA Twigs and Shia LaBeouf's ineligible quality isn't over.

In 2020, Twigs sued the histrion and accused him of "relentless abuse" successful their anterior relationship. Last July, they settled the intersexual artillery lawsuit. According to ineligible documents reported connected astatine the time, she filed to extremity the suit with prejudice — fundamentally meaning that she couldn't refile.

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Lawyers for some Twigs and LaBeouf issued a statement that read, “Committed to forging a constructive way forward, we person agreed to settee our lawsuit retired of court. While the details of the colony volition stay private, we privation each different idiosyncratic happiness, nonrecreational occurrence and bid successful the future."

However, according to a caller ailment filed successful LA connected behalf of Twigs, that wasn't the extremity of it. In October 2025, successful effect to a question astir whether she feels "safe," she told the Hollywood Reporter, "I wouldn’t accidental I consciousness safe. I consciousness truly passionate astir being progressive with organizations specified arsenic Sistah Space and No More, to assistance survivors successful immoderate mode that I can. I deliberation it’s little astir maine astatine this constituent and much astir looking forward."

According to Twigs' complaint, which was viewed by BuzzFeed, LaBeouf past filed a "secret arbitration Complaint...in which helium improperly sought exorbitant monies from her" for violating their settlement's NDA.

However, Twigs' squad is arguing that the NDA successful the settlement, which would forestall her from speaking astir the alleged abuse, isn't really legal: "In usurpation of the STAND Act, the provisions astatine contented unlawfully purport to restrict Ms. Barnett from disclosing immoderate accusation astir immoderate acts relating to her ain suffering of intersexual abuse, assault, and artillery by LaBeouf."

According to the complaint, LaBeouf's squad past argued that the NDA wasn't unlawful arsenic "the STAND Act’s Section 1001 protections widen lone to survivors of 'sexual assault'—and not to survivors of 'sexual battery.'"

LaBeouf's arbitration was yet dropped earlier this month. As per Twigs' complaint: "He has inactive refused to acknowledge, however, that the NDA provisions are amerciable and unenforceable, thereby creating this justiciable and existent contiguous controversy. In different words, it appears to beryllium LaBeouf’s presumption that he—as a intersexual abuser—may sermon Ms. Barnett’s trauma and suffering whenever helium wants without regularisation but that Ms. Barnett—as the survivor—is prohibited from discussing LaBeouf oregon her story."

"This is simply a lawsuit astir justness and law, not money," the ailment reads elsewhere. "[Twigs] has thing to summation from this lawsuit either professionally oregon financially. She files this enactment to close a wrong, and besides connected behalf of different women who are the victims of intersexual and home unit who bash not person the resources to talk retired and support themselves from predators."

BuzzFeed has contacted a typical for LaBeouf for comment.