Video: Alan Cumming is not holding a grudge against Shia LaBeouf for grabbing his butt during show

Alan Cumming says he doesn’t hold a grudge against Shia LaBeouf for grabbing his bum and other obnoxious behavior while attending a performance last June on Cabaret.

LaBeouf arrived at the Broadway show drunk and Cumming said he and other cast members were immediately aware there was a problem with the famous audience member.

‘He was just wasted and he was wasted from the second he walked in,’ Cumming told Conan O’Brien last night. ‘Everyone was freaking out because someone seemed to be a crazy person shouting and stuff.’

During the show, Cumming goes into the audience which is seated at tables to go with the show’s nightclub setting. It was at this point LaBeouf made his move.

As he explained to Jimmy Kimmel last week: ‘He walks past me and I give him a slap on the ass cause I think he deserves it, and he’s seducing me, I mean he’s the sexiest man I’ve ever seen. And I just don’t slap and slap but I slapped and grabbed him. I grabbed the whole cheek cause I wanted the party right here in my pants. I wanted to grab the whole party.’

Cumming does not dispute that version of events and thought LaBeouf ‘made a very good recovery’ with his telling of the story on Kimmel’s show.

‘He did say the reason he did it was I was the sexiest man he’d ever seen,’ Cumming said, laughing.

Of LaBeouf being drunk Cumming said: ‘We’ve all dine things where we’ve been out of it and messed up and not everyone has to deal with it on a worldwide scale.’