Shia LaBeouf Reveals: "I Don't Know How to Have One Drink"

The actor opens up about his drinking and smoking past with dad in the September issue of Details magazine

By Peter Gicas Jul 29, 2008 4:38 PMTags
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In the wake of Shia LaBeouf's recent DUI bust, a revealing cover story on the actor in Details magazine's September issue is generating a lot of attention.

Most notably, the Transformers star's openness about past rituals with his dad.

"We would drink together and smoke together," the 22-year-old reveals. "And it's just a bad deal. It's not something that is conducive to being a role model—no iconic actors that I know of have problems like that. And I don't know how to do it like a gentleman. I don't know how to have one drink."

LaBeouf also recounts the incident in November 2007, when he was arrested for trespassing because he refused to leave a Chicago Walgreens superstore after being asked repeatedly by security guards. (The charges were later dropped.)

"It was two hotheads," he says, "one completely in the wrong, one who wasn't enjoying his job that night, going at it about minuscule bulls**t."

As for the actor's condition following last weekend's DUI crash, his mom, Shayna LaBeouf, told E! News on Monday that her son is "doing" fine" after undergoing surgery Sunday for injuries to his left hand.