The controversial Transformers star finally opened up about his mother passing away in August. Shayna Saide passed away at age 80 due to heart failure at a Los Angeles hospital. In an e-mail interview with The Hollywood Reporter when asked about Shia’s relationship with his mom, he responds,
“ My mother was full of fear in her last moments: asking the doctor what this tube was and what that machine did. She was frantic. She was deeply interested in God and spirituality her whole life, but she didn’t know him. Hence her last moments. Her greatest gift to me was to promote, in her dying, the necessity of a relationship with God. Not an interest, not just a belief, but a relationship built on proof as tangible as a hug. Her last gift to me was the ultimate persuasion for faith. She was a good girl. She was loved by many and known by too few. God bless you, Momma.”
Shia was very close with his mother who was a visual artist, jewelry designer, and former dancer
