Shia LaBeouf In Arena

Shia LaBeouf is on the cover of Arena magazine and sat down to give an interview with the magazine. The actor says his parents took him to AA meetings when he was a child. "I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know"

Shia also says the best part of his life was dressing up as clowns with his parents and selling hot dogs. "As soon as my parents donned those wigs, life was great. They had to show this jovial bulls**t side of themselves to sell the hot dogs, so we would act like the happiest family in the world. It was so peaceful and loving and happy and joyous and amazing. I enjoyed it even if it was fake. I didn't know, I couldn't tell the difference. Only now I see what it was all about. But when we got back to the house and took the stuff off, life was different again."

The reason Shia became a clown? Because of where he grew up, "It was Latins, blacks and this one white kid, I remember a lot of fights in school. So I became a clown because otherwise I was going to get into fights. It was either humor or aggression."

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