It's been nine months since Hollywood actor Shia LaBeouf had a car accident during the shooting of Transformers sequel, injuring his left hand so badly that one finger had no bone left in it. He still hasn't entirely recovered and now LaBeouf, 22, tells Entertainment Weekly that he probably never will.
The actor says he'll only regain about "80-something percent" of the function in his left hand. "I've had screws and plates put in. They put a screw in one of my knuckles. And they shaved a piece of bone off my hip and made a [bone for my] finger out of it," he tells EW.
LaBeouf, who had his driving license suspended for a year after the collision (because he refused a breathalyzer test at the scene), also revealed that he was on his third surgery, the most recent being on April 2. "My middle finger is still crooked as a f---ing noodle, so they've gotta straighten it out and put a screw in it,” he says. “I'll be able to make a fist again," he continues. "There's a knuckle I'll never be able to move again, but that's probably the only permanent damage, other than the scarring."
Shia's daily life has already been dramatically affected by his injury. "It's hard to do anything. It's hard to button your pants or brush your teeth.” As he returned to the Transformers set after only two weeks, against doctors' advice, because “the show doesn't stop for anybody," LaBeouf had to deal with other challenges. Shooting the upcoming Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen without the use of his left hand was "the most physical thing I've ever had to do in my life, and I had to do it with a broken hand" he says. "Constantly having to take hits and fall and run through explosions and get hit and beat up all day.”
