Shia LaBeouf blamed his Mardi Gras bar brawl arrest on his fear of gay people.

“I’ll be honest with you, big gay people are scary to me,” the former child star boldly admitted in an interview with Andrew Callaghan’s Channel 5, which was posted on YouTube Saturday.

“When I’m like standing by myself and three gays are next to me, touching my leg, I get scared. I’m sorry. If that’s homophobic, then I’m that. Yeah.”