Shia LaBeouf Tells 'Kimmel' He's Still in Touch with Police Officer Who Arrested Him Back in 2017

Shia LaBeouf paid a visit to Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday night (November 6) and dished about the process of writing his intense autobiographical film, Honey Boy.

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The 33-year-old actor wrote the film about his own life experiences after he was arrested and sent to rehab for public drunkenness in Georgia back in 2017. He stars in the movie as the character inspired by his own father.

“Well, they said, ‘You have PTSD, you have to start writing. This is how you get to the solution. The only way out is through.’” Shia recalled. “So I started writing all these dark chapters of my life and it wound up being this script form thing, sent it to my friend, became a movie.”

“My dad’s a pretty off-color character, he wasn’t too enthused about me playing him,” Shia continued. “So I lied to him and told him that Mel Gibson would be playing him. Then he signed the paperwork, and I got home and I broke it to him. I sent him pictures. I said, ‘Listen man, it’s not like that.’”

Shia LaBeouf also revealed that he still keeps in touch with the police officer who arrested him: “Officer Bryant. That’s my guy… He invited me to go fishing yesterday.”