Mel Gibson: Tiger Woods Needs 'To Shut Up, Move On'

By PopEater Staff Posted Jan 11th 2010 02:59PM

Mel Gibson, who has recently dealt with his own scandals, is ready to shed light on Tiger Woods' affair and offers up his advice to the pro golfer. "Nobody is without sin," Gibson tells UK's Daily Mail. "You have to try to make amends if you can. You have to shut up and move on and not whine about it. And you have to deal with it like a man. You've just got to accept your own culpability."

In light of all the controversy, Gibson believes the public needs to focus on larger issues around the world. "Why are we talking about this when we're sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan? You've got this history-changing event going on and we're talking about Tiger's private life and golf injuries. He's being used as a diversion and it just drives me crazy. You come out savaged. I just think, 'Who cares?'"

Gibson is no stranger to marital problems either and takes responsibility for the failure of his marriage. He and his wife Robyn separated in 2006 and were officially divorced in 2009, after seven children and 28 years of marriage. "When all's said and done, I did a pretty good hatchet job on my marriage," Gibson says. "I'm to blame, if you're inclined to judge."

Gibson also suffered a major PR crisis of his own in 2006, when he was pulled over on suspicion of DUI in California, and reportedly made anti-Semitic comments during his arrest. He later apologized, pleaded no contest and received three years' probation.

Gibson says he's been sober now for 3 1/2 years. "It's cool," he says. "But I put some time together before that – one time it was eight years, one time it was five years. I have to be vigilant about these things or it will creep back in."

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