• What Happened: Shia LaBeouf broke down in tears describing what he would say if he met Jesus, in the same interview where he addressed his Mardi Gras arrest for allegedly punching multiple people outside a New Orleans bar while shouting homophobic slurs.
  • Why It Matters: The Catholic convert now faces three misdemeanor battery counts, was ordered into rehab he says he's "just not into," and went straight back to Bourbon Street after his first arrest.
  • Bottom Line: The man who once had a gun on the table and found God at a monastery is apparently still working some things out.

Shia LaBeouf broke down crying talking about Jesus on Saturday. He was arrested again a few hours later.

In an interview with YouTuber Andrew Callaghan, the 39-year-old actor was asked what he would say if he ever met Jesus Christ. LaBeouf couldn't get the words out. "I wouldn't say s—," he said, his voice cracking. "But I'd kiss Him. I'd kiss His feet. I wouldn't say nothing." He took a moment to collect himself before telling Callaghan, "Chill out with these questions, Andrew."

Warning: while his heart appears to be not he right track, his mouth has not caught up and there is heavy language in the interview:

The same interview also covered LaBeouf's Mardi Gras arrest on February 17, when police say he was kicked out of R Bar in New Orleans' Faubourg Marigny neighborhood for causing a disturbance, went back in, and came out swinging. A police report describes a shirtless LaBeouf shoving one man to the ground and hitting another in the face hard enough to possibly dislocate his nose. Local entertainer Jeffrey Klein, identified in the police report as one of the victims, told AP that LaBeouf threatened his life, shouted homophobic slurs, and "just got nuts." "He hit me, he connected a few times with punches, he pushed me a few times," Klein said.

After that first arrest, LaBeouf was released and went straight back to Bourbon Street to keep the Mardi Gras party going.

He now faces three misdemeanor battery counts total after being arrested a second time Saturday when police issued a new warrant connected to an additional victim from the same fight. His attorney Sarah Chervinsky said he voluntarily turned himself in. Chervinsky also argued before a judge that "frankly, being drunk on Mardi Gras is not a crime," a defense that did not stop the judge from setting a combined bail of $105,000 and ordering LaBeouf into drug and alcohol rehabilitation.

On that point, LaBeouf was candid in the interview. "I'm just not into it, bro. I don't think my answers are there," he said.

As for what caused the brawl, LaBeouf was less forthcoming. "I was drunk, and then I felt infringed upon in terms of my proximity," he said. "But I wasn't in my right mind, and so it's on me." He acknowledged saying words that were "not OK to say" and invoked his Catholic faith as the reason he knows it was wrong. "I don't want to hurt nobody's feelings. That's what I mean when I say I'm Catholic. I'm wrong for what I did."

LaBeouf converted to Catholicism after hitting rock bottom during the fallout from abuse allegations by his ex-partner FKA Twigs. He has spoken openly about having a gun on the table and not wanting to be alive, and about finding faith while living at a monastery to prepare for his role playing Italian saint Padre Pio. He was raised culturally Jewish and once said he did not believe in God at all.

The man who found Jesus at a monastery is now due back in a New Orleans courtroom on March 19. Whether he finds his answers there or in rehab, he says he's working on it.

"I am wrong for touching anyone, ever," he said. "And that's the end of my statement on this whole s—."

He knows who Jesus is. He knows what grace looks like. We hope he finds both before his next court date, and long after it.