Has Shia LaBeouf finally hit rock bottom? After a June 26 arrest following highly publicized drunken escapades in New York City, the actor checked into rehab in Los Angeles on Monday after being spotted carrying Alcoholics Anonymous literature. Only RadarOnline.com has all the details of his long and messy struggle to get — and stay — sober. 
 
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 Just days after chasing a homeless person in Times Square and being arrested during a Broadway performance of Cabaret, LaBeouf emerged back in Los Angeles on Monday afternoon, according to x17Online — and onlookers couldn’t help but notice the giant blue Alcoholics Anonymous book clutched in his hand. Known by AA members as The Big Book, it is the central text of the program and considered essential reading for anyone trying to get and remain sober. Not long after, according to the report, he checked into rehab, looking “nervous” and “like he didn’t want to do it, but knew he had to,” an eyewitness said. 
 
 Is he finally ready to give up drinking? This isn’t the first time that LaBeouf has dabbled in recovery. 
 
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 The actor admitted long ago to attending AA meetings as a child, accompanying his father. He managed to stay on the straight and narrow as a teen, crafting a promising film career, but after a 2007 arrest at a Walgreen’s for what he admitted was “intoxicated” behavior, and a 2008 drunk driving arrest, it was clear he was developing issues of his own. 
 
 In 2008, the National Enquirer reported that he had recently taken a chip celebrating 60 days of his own sobriety at an L.A. AA meeting. 
 
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 By 2011, he was ready to go public with his problems, telling Parade that he was an “alcoholic” after a messy bar brawl. 
 
 He was also spotted frequenting AA meetings in both New York and L.A., insiders tell Radar. 
 
 But by the next year, there were concerning signs he was off the wagon when he bragged about drinking moonshine and dropping LSD for movie roles. 
 
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 And this week, he was arrested and charged with harassment, disorderly conduct and criminal trespass in NYC after downing margaritas while watching the World Cup at a midtown bar. ||||| Shia LaBeouf blames it on the alcohol! Agreeing with late-night host Jimmy Kimmel who said the actor had "gone crazy," the Transformers star went into great detail about the events that led to him being arrested and escorted out of a Broadway show this past June. 
 
 
 
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 LaBeouf set the scene, recalling that he attended Cabaret after flying in from Ireland. "So I land in New York coming back from Ireland, where I'm visiting my girl. ...In Ireland you drink whiskey, so I'd been drinking a lot of whiskey," the 28-year-old explained. 
 
 The drinking continued with LaBeouf admitting, "It's the World Cup, so I'm sitting at a bar, and I'm drinking a lot of whiskey." He jokingly recalled that he was "drunk enough to really care" about the soccer game. 
 
 
 
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 LaBeouf then launched into a story about sparking up a conversation with a homeless man who he then ended up chasing down the street after the man got spooked when a woman started taking pictures of the actor. On his way back to the bar to pay his bill, a dancer in Cabaret stopped the actor and asked him if he'd like to see the show. 
 
 Admitting that he was "looking to turn it up a bit," LaBeouf agreed to attend the Broadway production. "Now the drunk is really starting to kick in," he confessed. Upon entering the show, he told Kimmel that he asked two "beautiful," 50-something women if he could buy them a drink at the venue's bar. Upon returning to the bar, he started eating a random plate of fruit and "feeding strawberries" to another 50-something woman. He said when he returned with the drinks, the women "wanted nothing to do with him," so he also drank their double whiskeys. 
 
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 That's when things got a little rowdy. LaBeouf explained that when he saw the show's star Alan Cumming smoking on stage (though he admitted it could've been Alan Iverson at this point), he decided that he too could smoke his cigarettes. Then, catching a glimpse of Cumming in leather pants, the actor also decided that the Cabaret star was the "sexiest man" he'd ever seen and grabbed his butt because, he thought the actor "deserved it." 
 
 It wasn't long after this that the cops were waiting to take the actor into custody. "I'm gonna stay away from Broadway a bit," LaBeouf joked. 
 
 Prior to his hilarious appearance on JKL, LaBeouf recalled to Ellen DeGeneres that while in jail, he was put in a "Hannibal mask." Check out that interview, below: 
 
 In September, LaBeouf pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after his Cabaret outburst. 
 
 His publicist claimed the incident was a result of an alcohol problem and insisted that LaBeouf had since gotten help. It was agreed by the court that if the actor remained in treatment for three months and didn't cause any further trouble for six months, he would be able to withdraw his guilty plea and the case would be dismissed. ||||| Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) 
 
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 Troublemaking actor Shia LaBeouf went berserk in the audience at the Broadway musical “Cabaret” Thurs­day night and was hauled off in handcuffs to a station house — where he told cops, “I’ll f–k you up,” called an officer a “f-g,” and was muzzled with a face mask for spitting, sources said. 
 
 The “Nymphomaniac” star was slapping people on the behind and in the back of the head while smoking at around 9:30 p.m. in the Studio 54 theater, according to law-enforcement sources. 
 
 When cops approached him, he was “incoherent” and “very agitated,” they said. 
 
 He tried to quickly walk away from officers but fell flat on his face, the sources said. 
 
 Police hauled him out, his hands cuffed behind him, as theatergoers looked on. 
 
 At the Midtown-North station house, he allegedly became belligerent, demanding the cuffs be removed. 
 
 “F–k you. I’ll f–k you up!” the 28-year-old LaBeouf said, according to the sources. 
 
 Cops decided to not take the cuffs off the agitated “Transformers” star, and he allegedly started spitting, prompting officers to put a face mask on him. 
 
 LaBeouf then unloaded on the arresting officer and used a ­homophobic slur. 
 
 “I have millions and millions of dollars and attorneys,” the ­unhinged actor said. “I’m going to ruin your career,” he added, then allegedly called the cop a “f-g.” 
 
 One police source said the actor smelled terrible and lied about ­being in the Army. 
 
 He was charged with criminal trespass, harassment and disorderly conduct, according to the sources. 
 
 “Just saw Shia LaBeouf in handcuffs in tears surrounded by 6 police officers outside of CABARET the musical,” tweeted Benj Pasek. 
 
 The actor has had his share of bizarre incidents in the past. 
 
 In January, he was videotaped head-butting a man during a bar brawl in London, according to ABC. 
 
 In February, he was seen disheveled, with a paper bag over his head, at the Berlin Film Festival. 
 
 He was arrested at a Chicago Walgreens in 2007 for refusing to leave the store. 
 
 After Thursday night’s bust, one “Cabaret” actor reportedly joked about it on social media. 
 
 “Ladies and gentlemen, this is your places call for Act II. Also, to let you know, Shia LaBeouf has just been escorted from the building in handcuffs. Yep, that just happened,” cast member Danny Burstein wrote on Facebook, according to the website Just Jared.
– Did Shia LaBeouf's crazy night on Broadway last week finally convince him it's time to get help? Maybe: After he was kicked out of a theater and arrested Thursday night, LaBeouf checked into rehab in LA yesterday, x17 reports. LaBeouf was also seen toting Alcoholics Anonymous literature, Radar notes, adding that this isn't LaBeouf's first experience with AA: He reportedly celebrated 60 days of sobriety at an AA meeting in 2008, and in 2011 he admitted he was an alcoholic publicly and was seen attending meetings. As TMZ points out in numerous articles, the Broadway incident was just the latest bit of misbehavior from LaBeouf: Last month he was banned from an LA restaurant for peeing on its outside wall; earlier this month he was recorded trying to fight outside a New York strip club; and hours before his arrest Thursday, he chased a homeless man after a weird argument over a hat the guy was wearing. And then, of course, there was his 2011 bar brawl, his 2014 bar brawl, that whole debacle with Alec Baldwin, the paper bag incident, and his bizarre plagiarized apology tour.