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Shia LaBeouf Explains How Co-Star With Down Syndrome Saved His Life

Paul Bois
Shia LaBeouf Explains How Co-Star With Down Syndrome Saved His Life
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In a time when children with Down syndrome are literally being exterminated in parts of the world, actor Shia LaBeouf is now crediting one individual with Down syndrome with saving his life.

Speaking with the United Kingdom’s Cathy Newman of Channel 4, Shia LaBeouf expounded on how his relationship with Zack Gottsagen – an actor with Down syndrome who starred alongside the former “Transformers” actor in the critically-acclaimed “The Peanut Butter Falcon” – literally altered his destructive habits.

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