Shia LaBeouf Opens Up About Bar Fight

Shia LaBeouf sets the record straight about his involvement in a bar fight earlier this year on a recent episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

“I walked out to have a cigarette. I was away with some friends. Some guys instigated me and that’s what it was. Some name calling,” the 24-year-old Transformers star shared. “I didn’t know them, no.”

“It was just an awkward situation … I’m not trying to challenge anybody either … People get drunk, people get crazy,” he added.

Asked by Ellen if he cares about the public’s perception of him, Shia answered, “The only opinion that really counts for me, and I don’t care how cheesy it sounds, my mother is very, it’s a serious deal for me. Really the only honest opinion I feel I truly have and the only opinion that matters in my life.”

Watch Shia‘s interview below to hear about the hilarious – but sweet! – card he sketched for his mom on Mother’s Day!