Shia LaBeouf almost lost an eye when shooting Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen. In his own words, Shia “mistimed” a scene and “impaled” his eye. This sounds almost too gruesome to be true, but then “dark, dark purplish” blood began pouring out of his eye.

more Shia after the hop…

While one may shriek in horror at such a sight, Shia says the dark purple was actually a good sign. He told Access Hollywood:

“[dark purple Is actually a great thing, because if it had been reddish and clear, that means my eye popped.”

Shia's injury actually impressed his co-stars, Josh Duhamel and Tyrese Gibson, who say the actor soldiered through the following scenes regardless of the close call.

He is a really tough kid. I mean he took some sh*t, he took some real lumps in this movie,” Josh said of Shia’s injury. “I was right there and it’s just dripping blood… he leaves the set and they run him off in an ambulance and it turned out her just cut the top of it. [But,] this is an example of how tough he is, he wanted to come back and work that same day and [Michael Bay] was like, ‘Get out of here go home!’”