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Is this the latest celebrity meltdown?

Very early on Friday morning (and we mean early ... around 2am) Shia LaBeouf tweeted that he's ready to give up his celeb status, at least for now.

Shia wrote:
    "In light of the recent attacks against my artistic integrity, I am retiring from all public life. My love goes out to those who have supported me. #stopcreating."


Back in December the 27-year-old Transformers star was under fire for plagiarizing material from graphic novelist David Clowes' 2007 work Justin M. Damiano with his own short film, HowardCantour.com. Clowes was considering suing LaBeouf, and apparently was not too receptive to the actor's apologies either.

After tweeting several messages expressing his remorse, LaBeouf hired a skywriter last week to write "I am sorry Daniel Clowes," but he was slammed by a number of folks (including Lena Dunham!) for what was deemed a rather tacky apology. LaBeouf then tweeted, "Im addicted to lean & that sh*t ain't no joke. I can barely remember all the things I've done & said. However there's no excuse 4 skywriting."

The only problem with that was the fact that rapper Gucci Mane basically tweeted the exact same thing back in 2013, which might not be the best way to go about saying you're sorry for plagiarism!

Lean (aka "purple drank" or "sizzurp") is a cocktail of codeine and soda, which Gucci referenced last year in a tweet to his fans. "I wanna be the first rapper to admit I'm addicted to lean & that sh*t ain't no joke," Gucci wrote. "I can barely remember all the things I've done & said. However there's no excuse. I'm currently incarcerated but I will be going to rehab because I need help."

But do you really think Shia is retiring? He has two movies to promote this year, so we can't imagine his management team and the studios behind those flicks are too thrilled about it!