In one alleged incident detailed in the lawsuit, the musician says LaBeouf threatened to crash the car they were driving in unless she professed her love for him; when she begged to be let out, LaBeouf allegedly pulled over to a petrol station, threw her against the vehicle and screamed in her face. “What I went through with Shia was the worst thing I’ve ever been through in the whole of my life,” she told the Times, and said she wanted to raise awareness of “the tactics that abusers use to control you.” In an Instagram post, Twigs said she hoped the lawsuit would “help people understand that when you are under the coercive control of an abuser or in an intimate partner violent relationship leaving doesn’t feel like a safe or achievable option”.