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It's no surprise that childhood stars often have difficulty as they grow up. The attention, the lack of a normal childhood, money-sucking parents—it's enough to spend the majority of your adult life in and out of jail or on a psychiatrist's chaise lounge.
We've watched this terrible tragedy unfold before our eyes with the likes of Macauly Culkin, Lindsay Lohan and now…
Shia Labeouf
Let’s take a look at where it all went wrong.
Any child of the ‘90s will recall the goofy and lovable Louis Stevens on Disney’s Even Stevens:
After winning a daytime Emmy for his role on the Disney sitcom, things looked promising for young Shia
He went on to star in the film adaptation of the hit teen novel Holes
Shia even dabbled in animated film
And then he hit it big with Michael Bay’s Transformers franchise
But then things started to head south after the blockbuster series began slipping at the box office after the third installment, Dark of the Moon
Soon after Shia began looking like a homeless wizard who had all of puberty hit him in one day
And the only logical next move after that was to appear naked in a Sigur Rós music video
And then...DRUGS - Shia live Tweeted an acid trip. You can read the whole thing (and I highly suggest you do) here
With drugs came Shia's move into performance art, in which he was seen at the Berlin Film Festival wearing a paper bag on his head for Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac
And in the film, Shia got naked...AGAIN
He dabbled in performance art again with a deranged version of a "meet and greet," in which he allowed fans one-by-one into a room with him as he allegedly cried profusely
And Shia fooled many fans (and innocent New Yorkers) as he appeared to be continuing his performance art but actually he was just drunk and fighting with a bum
An incident which awarded him jail time and what appeared to be the world's worst hangover
After the arrest, the actor seemed to be doing a lot better. He even underwent a transformation, becoming Shia LaBUFF
But then, THIS.
And he got back into performance art as well...
Frightening stuff.
And while on set of his latest movie, American Honey, he earned the respect of the local hillbillies by freestyling
View this video on YouTube
But hey, remember Beans from Even Stevens? The cute, lisp-talking, bacon-loving neighbor of the Stevens family?
Yeah, well at least Shia LaBeouf didn't turn out as creepy as him
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