Sigourney Weaver claimed over the weekend that she once slapped her father for hitting Shia LaBeouf.
“My dad (Jeffrey LaBeouf) got kicked off so many sets, dude,” the “Even Stevens” alum, 40, told 2026 Fanboy Expo attendees in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Saturday.
“He reminded me of Sigourney Weaver once,” the former Disney Channel star said during a “Transformers” reunion panel discussion. “She slapped him…on the set of ‘Hole’.”
The 76-year-old Shire, who played Warden Walker in the film, wasn’t the only co-star to object to Jeffrey.
“Lucy Liu couldn’t stand my dad,” he added of the “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle” cast member. “She couldn’t stand him, but he wasn’t going anywhere. He’s my father.”
It’s worth noting that Shia was still a teenager when both films were released in 2003.
Shire needed an adult director on set, so her father was “always hanging around, and Lucy Liu was always making big circles around the trailer.”
He recalled that Jeffrey was “always whistling” at the Emmy winner.
Although he didn’t name Liu’s fellow Angels Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore, the filmmaker called the film’s set generally “bad news” because “the dad just got out of jail” and “all the pretty girls were walking around.”
He jokingly said, “My father used to beat all three of those women all the time.”
Representatives for Weaver, Liu, Diaz and Barrymore did not immediately respond to Page Six’s requests for comment.
Jeffrey reportedly served time in prison for attempted rape from 1981 to 1983, which he spoke about on Medium in 2019 to journalist Aaron Gell.
“I had no idea what I was doing,” Jeffrey said at the time. “I was drunk.”
Shire has also had legal troubles over the years, most recently pleading guilty to three counts of assault after a Mardi Gras disturbance in June.
The “Peanut Butter Falcon” star’s controversial relationship with his father has been well-documented, and that relationship is the basis for 2019’s “Honey Boy.”
However, he shared his regrets about “badmouthing his father on a massive scale” and called the idea of Jeffrey being abusive “fucking nonsense” in a 2022 podcast episode of “The Real Ones.”
Shia claimed, “My father loved me very much throughout his life. Yes, he was broken. Yes, he was bent. Yes, he was unstable. But there was never a lack of love. There was never a time when he wasn’t there. He was always there…and I did a world press tour about how crazy he was as a man.”
