Shia LaBeouf’s abuse trial delayed until next year as Brit accuser FKA Twigs is ‘stuck in the UK & unable to travel’

SHIA LaBeouf and ex FKA Twigs - who has accused the star of abuse - won't go to trial until next year as she is stuck in the UK, The Sun can exclusively reveal.

The 33-year-old singer, real name Tahliah Barnett, claimed in an explosive lawsuit that the Honey Boy actor choked her, "knowingly" gave her an STD and was emotionally abusive.

Twigs dated LaBeouf for a year until 2019 and court filings claim during the course of their relationship he "engaged in the systematic torment and physical and emotional abuse" of the star.

The 34-year-old actor is accused of isolating her from her friends and family and constantly threatening her physical safety, according to the documents.

In a new filing, following a case management hearing, lawyers claim: "Plaintiff requires ongoing medical and psychotherapeutic treatment for
her injuries, which are permanent.

"Plaintiff will seek substantial damages, in an amount to be proven at the time of a trial by jury, but well beyond the minimum jurisdiction of this Court."

But the documents show lawyers do not anticipate the case being ready for a jury trial "until at least 2022."

"Initially, the COVID-19 pandemic will prevent any depositions, other than by remote means, from taking place in this action for the foreseeable future," the papers read.

"Second, Plaintiff is a citizen and resident of the United Kingdom, and is presently unable to travel to the United States due to pandemic travel restrictions.

"Third, given the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the existing backlog for both criminal and civil jury trials, it is anticipated that it will be neither safe nor practicable for a 5 to 7 day civil jury trial to be held in this matter until such time."

Meanwhile, Shia was seen out and about with ex-wife Mia Goth, 27, as they sparked reconciliation rumors once again while on a bike ride on Sunday in California.

The pair, who have split a number of times since they met in 2012, went on a bike ride in California on Sunday. She has not spoken out about her ex's abuse claims.

FKA Twigs – who met the actor on the set of his autobiographical movie Honey Boy in 2018 - opened up to journalist Gayle King about the moment LaBeouf allegedly threatened her life after a fight.

She claimed that around Valentine's Day in 2019, the two took a "disturbing" trip to a spa in Palm Springs.

On their return drive to Los Angeles, he was "speeding down the motorway and saying that if I said I didn't love him and if I was going to leave him, he would smash the car to the side of a wall."

The British singer claimed: "When I thought 'Wow, he needs so much control over me that he would kill us both.'

"Eventually, he pulled over to a gas station and I tried to unload my bags from the car and there were three men opposite the car and I remember thinking 'This is it, I'm done, I can't do this anymore.'

She alleged that "he picked [her] up, threw [her] against the car, and started strangling [her]."

"That's when I realized I need help to get out of this relationship," she said, claiming three men at the gas station didn't help and simply watched, adding: "I felt so alone."

In the same interview, Twigs claimed he forced her to sleep naked so she was always "available" to him.

She alleged that Shia "would often start an argument with me in the middle of the night."

"He would start accusing me of doing all sorts of things, planning to leave him in my head," she alleged. "That I was disgusting and vile.

"Nothing was ever true but I would really doubt myself, especially when I would wake up, and he would be like 'You were lying there with your eyes open, planning to leave me.' And I would be like 'I was literally asleep.'

"He would only want me to sleep naked because he said if I didn't, I was keeping myself from him.

In response to the original complaint, LaBeouf told The New York Times in an email: "I'm not in any position to tell anyone how my behavior made them feel.

"I have no excuses for my alcoholism or aggression, only rationalizations. I have been abusive to myself and everyone around me for years.

"I have a history of hurting the people closest to me. I’m ashamed of that history and am sorry to those I hurt. There is nothing else I can really say."

In a separate email after he was presented with the claims and the lawsuit, he told New York Times that "many of these allegations are not true," but that he owed the women "the opportunity to air their statements publicly and accept accountability for those things I have done."