Actor Shia LaBeouf has opened up on his past relationship with Carey Mulligan, who is now married to musician Marcus Mumford. He says that things didn’t work out for a number of reasons – they were quite regularly apart, and when they met each other’s parents, they both got a shock because of the big differences between their families. He describes it as a culture shock:
“Carey is not just an actress, she is a great human being, a sweet girl and super intelligent. Our thing came down to not having compatible work/lifestyles. We were always travelling, and had sensibility differences that weren’t conducive to living with one another. I’m harder on myself and my surroundings than she is, and we had a culture shock in terms of meeting her parents and vice versa. Sensibilities, cultures, histories. There were differences, that’s all.”
Shia says Carey is happy with her new man and says that although he is also hoping to wed one day, he didn’t want to rush into anything because he doesn’t want to divorce and insists that if he does get married, it will be only once:
“She’s happy as hell right now, and we wouldn’t have been able to make it like that. She was chasing marriage, family, kids more than I was. I’m not opposed to marriage. I just think I’m quite young. I come from divorce. I’m only doing marriage once. It’s not a game for me. I’m not a religious person, but I have ethics.”
