About a month after her own split from Shia LaBeouf, actress Margaret Qualley has expressed her support for FKA Twigs for speaking out about her alleged abusive relationship with the actor.
Qualley posted the cover photo of the FKA Twigs cover for the upcoming edition of She magazine, where the 33-year-old singer opened up about her troubled relationship with 34-year-old LaBeouf. The former couple started dating in 2018.
“Thanks,” Qualley wrote for the caption of the post.
The British singer, born Tahliah Debrett Barnett, filed a lawsuit against LaBeouf last year, claiming the actor was ‘dangerous’ and had a history of abusing women ‘both physically and mentally’. The lawsuit alleged that LaBeouf strangled her and threatened to crash a car they were driving together.
Qualley was dating LaBeouf when news of the lawsuit surfaced, and the two had split up in early January. While the 26-year-old actress has not said she took advantage of LaBeouf while dating, her post indicates that she believes the allegations against him.
The post has received nearly 43,000 likes in less than 24 hours, with many followers thanking the actress for their solidarity. Qualley’s mother, Andie MacDowell, responded to her daughter’s post, writing, “Dear girls. Beloved.”
Olivia Wilde, who fired LaBeouf from her upcoming movie Don’t worry honey in September she also seemed to show her support in her own subtle way by posting a photo where the actress sent her from Waking, a short film directed by Wilde and starring Qualley.
“I miss you directing, MQ. You’re a fierce and special one,” Wilde wrote as captioned.
The She In an interview, FKA twigs sees her attributing the survival of the relationship to a ‘miracle’.
“I think it’s luck,” she told the magazine. “I really wish I could say I found some strength and saw this light. I wish I could say, ‘[It is] a proof of my strong character, “or” This is how my mother raised me. ” None of that is. It’s pure luck that I’m no longer in that situation, ‘she said, adding that mending their relationship “ has been the hardest thing I’ve ever tried to do. It is of course very fresh to me. I know [this journey] is not going to be perfect. But I hope that if I can take baby steps and people can see that I am taking my life back, it will inspire them. “
LaBeouf initially responded to her claims by making a statement to the New York Times where he apologized and admitted that he had “abused myself and everyone around me for years” while insisting that many of the accusations were “untrue.” Twigs said the apology exemplified the kind of “gaslighting” she experienced during their relationship.
“It reminds me of some of the gaslighting I experienced when I was with him,” she told CBS’s Gayle King last week. ‘This taking some of the blame, but not all, and then denying it.’
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