Shia LaBeouf opens up about racist rant and Georgia arrest: 'I f***** up'

He reflects back on last summer's events

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Shia LaBeouf has finally opened up about his Georgia arrest and racist rant from last summer.

Last July, footage was released of LaBeouf taking aim at a black officer, as well as saying a white officer's wife watches porn about "licking a black d***."

In addition to these actions, he called female officers "b****" and "w****."

While La Beouf did apologise after the incident, this is the first time he's really reflected on what happened.

The 31-year-old actor revisited the events in a new profile on Esquire where he took responsibility for his actions.

He says, "What went on in Georgia was mortifying. White privilege and desperation and disaster … It came from a place of self-centred delusion."

LaBeouf owned his mistakes saying, "It was me trying to absolve myself of guilt for getting arrested."

To sum things up he simply says, "I f***** up."

LaBeouf was in Georgia filming The Peanut Butter Falcon movie which chronicles the journey of a developmentally disabled man as he tries to be a professional wrestler.

He's since been to rehab and is sober now - something he credits to the movie's leading man, Zachary Gottsagen, who has Down Syndrome.

When he heard what had happened with LaBeouf and his arrest, Gottsagen confronted the actor for his actions.

"To hear him say that he was disappointed in me probably changed the course of my life," LaBeouf says.

He added that he was on his "defence-mechanism-fear garbage" - something that wouldn't work with Gottsagen.

LaBeouf explains, "Zack can’t not shoot straight, and bless him for it, ’cause in that moment, I needed a straight shooter who I couldn’t argue with."

Prior to his interview with the men's publication, he spent two months doing practice interviews with his therapist to prepare.

LaBeouf admitted that he's had trouble booking acting roles for his past indiscretions, but discusses his latest role in Borg McEnroe.