LaBeouf During The 64th Berlinale International Film Festival
Cast member Shia LaBeouf arrives on the red carpet to promote the movie "Nymphomaniac Volume I" during the 64th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin February 9, 2014. Reuters/Tobias Schwarz

Shia LaBeouf has been a victim of male rape. The “Fury” star opened up about a traumatic experience in February during his “I Am Sorry” art installation show, wherein a female spectator took sexual advantage of him.

Earlier this year, LaBeouf staged an art performance show in Los Angeles he titled #IAMSORRY, in which he just sat in a room for six days wearing a tuxedo and a paper bag. Attendees entered the room one at a time. While some attendees were compassionate, others took advantage of his silence and had taken selfies with him.

However, none was worse than a female attendee who took advantage of his silence and inactiveness. According to the 28-year-old star, the unnamed woman raped him when it was her turn to enter the room.

“One woman who came with her boyfriend, who was outside the door when this happened, whipped my legs for ten minutes and then stripped my clothing and proceeded to rape me,” LaBeouf recalled to Dazed. “There were hundreds of people in line when she walked out with dishevelled hair and smudged lipstick. It was no good, not just for me but her man as well.”

He added that his girlfriend was just outside in line to see him. When the news of his rape travelled through the line, his girlfriend had asked for an explanation.

“...and I couldn’t speak, so we both sat with this unexplained trauma silently. It was painful,” the actor said, perhaps referring to Mia Goth, his girlfriend and “Nymphomaniac” co-star.

It is the first time LaBeouf has spoken up about his ordeal. Though despite suffering from the sexual assault, he has still spoken fondly of his overall experience, saying his art show allowed him to become a “fellow human” from merely a celebrity or object.

“People I’ve never met before came and loved on me and with me. Some would hold my hand and cry with me, some would tell me to ‘figure it out’ or to ‘be a man.’ I’ve never experienced love like that; empathy, humanity,” he said.

LaBeouf recently starred in the American war drama “Fury” alongside Brad Pitt, Logan Lerman and Scott Eastwood. He will be seen next in another war film, the post-apocalyptic thriller “Man Down” in 2015.