Alan Cumming: Shia LaBeouf was ‘messed up’ when he grabbed me for being ‘too sexy’
Alan Cumming has reacted to Shia LaBeouf’s claim that he was only arrested in a New York theatre because Cumming is too “sexy”.
The Transformers star was arrested for disorderly conduct in a theatre in June, after allegedly disrupting a performance of Cabaret – in which bisexual actor Alan Cumming stars as the Emcee – and referring to a police officer as a “fag”.
LaBeouf had claimed last week: “Alan Cumming walks past me and all I’m thinking about are his leather pants and him winking at me, and he walks past me and I give him a slap on the ass cause I think he deserves it, and he’s seducing me, I mean he’s the sexiest man I’ve ever seen.
“And I just don’t slap and slap but I slapped and grabbed him. I grabbed the whole cheek cause I wanted the party right here in my pants.”
Speaking to Conan O’Brien this week, Cumming addressed the actor’s claims directly.
He said: “I think he was just really messed up. He didn’t apologise, but he explained it last week – I thought that was a very good thing.
“He was wasted, from the second he walked into the theatre, so there was an atmosphere of everyone freaking out, because he seemed to be a crazy person.
“He grabbed me… during the show I walk into the audience, and as I walked past him, he whacked me. [Audience gasps] I know!
“We’ve all done things where we’ve been out of it, and not everyone has to deal with it on such a worldwide scale.
“He made a very good recovery, and he did say that the reason he did it was I was the sexiest man he’d ever seen, so there’s that.”
