By Desiree Salas (media@latinospost.com) | First Posted: Oct 21, 2014 06:51 AM EDT

Actor Shia LaBeouf had spent the last couple of months (or years) in a troubled state of mind. He's managed to turn himself into a Hollywood oddity who elicits crossed brows instead of smiles and adulation. And now, in a recent interview, he revealed he's starting to turn his life around, thanks to an unlikely personage - God.

"I found God doing 'Fury,'" the 28-year-old shared to Interview. "I became a Christian man, and not in a fucking bullshit way-in a very real way."

"I could have just said the prayers that were on the page. But it was a real thing that really saved me. And you can't identify unless you're really going through it. It's a full-blown exchange of heart, a surrender of control," he explained.

"Brad [Pitt] was really instrumental in guiding my head through this," he went on to say. "Brad comes from a hyper-religious, very deeply Christian, Bible Belt life, and he rejected it and moved toward an unnamed spirituality."

"He looked at religion like the people's opium, almost like a Marxist view on religion. Whereas [Fury writer-director] David [Ayers] is a full subscriber to Christianity. But these two diametrically opposed positions both lead to the same spot, and I really looked up to both men," Shia said.

According to the Daily Mail, the actor also confessed that he's been "going through an existential crisis" and that he's been using acting as an escape.

"I've been a runner my whole life, running from myself. Whether to movies or drinking and drugging or f***ing calamity or whatever it is, I've always been running," he said.

Looks like he's now running to God - and a better version of himself.

"It's why I love being an actor-I never have to actually look at myself or be faced with my s--t or take responsibility. So it's been an eye-opening thing to have to look at myself, at my life, and have these reflective moments," he also reflected, as noted by E! News.

"I'm really trying to work on my good-guy now," he said. "I'm trying to find a way to have some control over my actions, my behavior, my ideas, my thoughts, my path in life. But it's very new for me."

Adding to the positive changes in his life is the fact that Shia had made peace with Alec Baldwin, who he reportedly had fought with while rehearsing for the play "Orphans."

"I've made peace with Baldwin. He was the first dude to hit me up after I got out of court," Shia recalled, as noted by the Daily Mail. "He sent me an e-mail. It's really beautiful. I was crying on an airplane."

Will these series of promising events lead to a lasting reform for Shia? Time will tell.

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