Shia LaBeouf has opened up about his father’s alleged behaviour while visiting film sets, claiming Jeffrey Craig LaBeouf made several actresses uncomfortable and was even slapped by Sigourney Weaver after allegedly “hitting on” her.
The 39-year-old actor, who has long spoken about his turbulent family life and his own public controversies, was sentenced to two years’ probation in June on battery charges stemming from a Mardi Gras incident in New Orleans.
He shared the remarks during a Transformers reunion panel at the 2026 Fanboy Expo in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Saturday, July 11. The event is part of the convention’s scheduled question-and-answer programming, and the topic came up when someone in the audience asked what it had been like filming Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle with Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu.
Shia said his father had recently been released from prison at the time and was accompanying him on set, where he allegedly created tension with some of the film’s female stars.
“My dad was fresh out of prison, so we were on this set, and here’s all these pretty girls walking around. Bad news,” Shia told the crowd, before adding that his father had allegedly been ‘hitting on all three of those women all the time’, in an apparent reference to Diaz, Liu and Drew Barrymore, who starred as the film’s titular Angels.
He went on to single out Liu, now 57, saying she was especially unhappy with having his father around during production of the 2003 action sequel.
“Lucy Liu couldn’t stand my dad,” he said. “She couldn’t stand him. But he wasn’t going anywhere; he’s my dad.
“So we were just hanging out all the time, and Lucy Liu would always do these big circles around my trailer.”
Shia further alleged that Liu “never wanted to be around” because his father was “always whistling at her”.
He then shifted to another project from the same year, Holes, and claimed his father’s conduct there also caused problems.
“My dad’s been kicked off of so many sets, dude,” he said. “He hit on Sigourney Weaver one time. She slapped him on Holes, on the Holes set. So, that’s probably… that’s what I remember from Charlie’s Angels.”
Jeffrey LaBeouf was convicted of attempted rape in 1981 and remained in prison until 1983, according to The Sun.
In an earlier interview with journalist Aaron Gell, he said he had “a conviction for attempted rape” and had been “registered as a sex offender under Megan’s Law”, while also claiming he had been “blackout drunk” when the offence took place.
Public attention on the father-son relationship intensified after the release of Shia’s 2019 semi-autobiographical film Honey Boy. Although the film drew heavily from his upbringing, Shia later said it had “vilified” his father and described the portrayal of Jeffrey in the script as “nonsense”. In 2022, he also said the movie was not a fully autobiographical account and that he had taken creative liberties with the depiction of his father.
Reports say Jeffrey now lives in New Orleans, the same city Shia moved to after separating from Mia Goth.
Representatives for Shia LaBeouf, Sigourney Weaver and Lucy Liu have been contacted for comment.