Mel Gibson's Long, Hateful History

By Ben Widdicombe Posted Jul 11th 2010 01:00PM

Mel Gibson has had more comebacks than Jesus.

While the critics are probably right in saying he's going to have a hard time restoring the public's affection after his most recent tirade -- RadarOnline.com's shocking recordings of verbal and implied physical abuse against his girlfriend -- he's been in similar situations before, many times.

A look at his public record isn't pretty.

As websites such as Gawker.com have pointed out, his trail of ugly rhetoric stretches back to 1991, when he angered the gay community with remarks made to the Spanish newspaper El Pais and reported in the US by columnist Liz Smith.

"They take it up the a**; this is only for taking a s***," he told the newspaper. "With this look, who's going to think I'm gay? I don't lend myself to that type of confusion. Do I look like a homosexual? Do I talk like them? Do I move like them?"

When asked about the comments by Good Morning America, he replied: "I don't think there's an apology necessary, and I'm certainly not giving one. [Those remarks were a response] to a direct question. If someone wants my opinion, I'll give it. What, am I supposed to lie to them?"

When asked about the incident again by Playboy in 1995, he responded: "I'll apologize when hell freezes over. They can f*** off." (He later agreed to peace talks with the gay group GLAAD, brokered by its then-media director, Chaz Bono.)

After that, Mel stayed quiet until his infamous 2006 DUI bust in Malibu. At that time, he was moved to observe to the officer who pulled him over: "F***ing Jews ... the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world ... are you a Jew?"

At this point, you might think that show business is an odd career choice for someone who doesn't like Jews or homosexuals. But as TMZ reported shortly afterward, he also found time to insult women, remarking to a female officer on the scene: "What do you think you're looking at, sugar tits?"

Mel laid low after that debacle, but was buoyed by the positive reaction to his 2006 film 'Apocalypto.' Entering rehab for alcohol and his image as a deeply-religious family man also helped cushion the blow.

But that family image took a fatal blow when he divorced the mother of his seven children in 2009 and took up with Oksana Grigorieva, with whom he had a baby (out of wedlock) later that year. By April of 2010, that relationship had ended.

It was that ugly breakup which seems to have prompted Mel's worst tirade of all, in which he goes out of his way to use unconnected racial slurs to insult his Russian ex, in a phone call obtained by RadarOnline.com.

"You look like a f***ing pig in heat, and if you get raped by a pack of n*****s, it will be your fault," he says on one recording. Speaking separately about a female employee, he says: "I will report her to the f****ng people that take f***ing money from the wetbacks."

About her appearance, he says: "Look what you are ... look what every part of you is ... f***ing fake ... you are the most synthetic person ... who the f*** are you?"

In perhaps the most shocking portion of the tape, Grigorieva demands to know "what kind of man" would hit a woman in the face, while she was holding their baby. His response was: "You know what? You f***ing deserved it."

Gibson himself thinks he's indestructible, telling the London Telegraph (about his earlier troubles, before the Grigorieva tapes were made public): "I am one tough m*****f****r and you can't bother me anymore. You ask anybody what their number one fear is and it's public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale and that's what I've been through. It changes you and makes you one tough m*****f*****. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

But after almost 20 years of practice, it seems that Mel may finally have launched the tirade that ends his career.

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Comments

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Sunday 15 August

By Lloyd

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Are you kidding? He has a history. He has made homophobic remarks, anti-Semitic remarks, anti-Black and anti-Hispanic remarks, and is unbelievably sexist/mysogynistic. There is nothing to defend about Mel Gibson and he is fair game.

Sunday 11 July

By Karey

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All you Mel fans defending him are not seeing the real point here,Yeah Oksana is a skank/goldigger that helped end his marriage and it was illegal to tape him, BUT! Mel Gibson HIT A WOMAN THAT WAS HOLDING AN INNOCENT CHILD, HIS CHILD! THEREFORE ENDANGERING THE BABY, WHO COULD HAVE FALLEN FROM HER MOTHER'S ARMS AND RECEIVED SERIOUS INJURY OR DEATH. It was dumb not to report it immediately to police, but with the death threats on the woman's life and his OWN CHILD you would have recorded all calls too, You may not like her or what she stands for, but this is for protecting that kid's life. Arrest warrant should charge Mel Gibson with child endangerment,terrorist threats,domestic abuse and racial slurs!!

Monday 12 July

By decredico

Wrong. Most people are not psychotic.

By me

You sound like a guy who's afraid his own girlfriend is about to release a tape. If your hero is a "man" who has to get his rocks off by humiliating gay people and abusing women and cheating on his wife while at the same time telling others how to live their own lives, you are just as pathetic as him. May you both burn in hell.

By Jessica

I'm laughing at everyone who feels the need to say horrible things about this woman taping their conversations. Yes it may have been wrong for her to tape him but everyone is missing the BIG picture here. He said those horrible things. She didn't feed him a script and blackmail him; those awful things came from Mel. That's why he's being criticized.

By cnikkicrez

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You are 100 percent correct! we all say things we don't mean,so for all you people acting like you have not, stop being Hypochrites.No one is perfect.so stop looking for all theses Celebs to do or say the right thing.They are regular people the only difference is they have more money than us,so get over it!

By ChicagoKid

"Mel is like a lot of people who get mad." HUh?! A lot of people--especially Christians, don't punch a woman in the mouth and knock out teeth while she is holding a baby, call her the c-word, use the n-word, and pull on gun on someone.

At least Rush Limbaugh just doctor shops to illegally get his oxycontin drugs to continue his drug habit.

By mike

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Get a life, media haters. The media made the switch to celebrity scandals becuase losers like you click on the link.

By BUTCH

good for him. he deserves a ring. go get it lebron.

By Tricia

Looks like someone forgot to censor out some of the f-bombs...haha
Mel Gibson seems like a very hateful man. Seems like a total a-hole.

By themeeker

Mel Gibson can drop dead.

By garry

give mel some slack. she set him up

By FMTalks

Yeah, she set him. She held a gun to his head and made him say what he said. He has no self-control.

By Rock

Mel set himself up. No one forced him to date this woman, he is a big BOY (and I do mean boy). Who he dates is his choice no matter what their personality or agenda is. As for fathering their child, that was between them. If he did no want any more children he should have protected himself and not depend on someone else.

By bill jones

Mel is Mel

Believe their is a certain amount of animosity for Mel. Some movie producers and Tabloids are really upset about his success as Director and Producer in their chosen field. Hats off to Mel

By berg1928

And he was also setup by all the others he insulted so vilely? I don't think so!

By dee-dee

nobody set that fool up. he's an arrogant, ignorant bastard who thinks he can get away with things because he has money.

By MARIAH

This egotistical nutcase seems to hate everything and everyone. The man needs help from a team of shrinks before he kills someone.

Aparently, not to bright Garry, Lizard, Me and Walt can use some help too.

By MelMan

If my Russian, gold-digger wife (what the hell was he thinking?) were dressing like some cracked out wiener-squeezer groupie-bimbo milf-wannabe I might not use the "N" word but I might urge her to google "blacks on blonds" or "interracial gangbang" to understand the phenomenon and then ask her to consider whether or not she really wants to identify herself with that kind of gutter culture and put herself at risk of being victimized by a pack of interracial gangbangers... The entertainment/"news" media and all its users hate Mel because Mel tells it like it is and the media hates Truth. Go Mel!

By Carm

Like I always say, people are stupid. I can't believe some of you are actually defending Mel.

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