Shia LaBeouf came clean on Letterman last night about his drunken Walgreens arrest from earlier this year, and the anecdote, well… it makes me feel a little closer to God:

“I got pretty wasted in Chicago and wound up celebrating in Walgreens,” LaBeouf, 21, told the TV host. Revealing his need at the time for some pimple cream, the actor told Letterman he headed to the store’s cosmetic aisle, picked up the product and, in his inebriated state, thought the security guard was laughing at him.

“Now I’m starting to feel like, “It’s really not that funny, guy,’ ” he recalled. “Men need that stuff, too.”

The LaBeouf’s public existence seems to consist of alternating nerd stories and badass stories to balance out his not-quite-either image. I feel like he’ll follow this up by being “rumored” to have spent the night with his Transformers co-star Megan Fox, followed by a rumor about LaBeouf losing a game of Magic: The Gathering to Elijah Wood, followed by a rumor about LaBeouf banging Megan Fox during a game of Magic: The Gathering, and so on…