He will now... Same questions came up when Kobe's had his fling in Colorado...where were the body guards? Same with Mike Tyson when he got busted for rape...where were the body guards? Mel was/is on a path of self destruction, it is obvious...
The lastest press release from Mel... MEL SAYS SORRY TO THE JEWS Tue Aug 01 2006 11:10:45 ET August 2, 2006 -- There is no excuse, nor should there be any tolerance, for anyone who thinks or expresses any kind of Anti-Semitic remark. I want to apologize specifically to everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words that I said to a law enforcement officer the night I was arrested on a DUI charge. I am a public person, and when I say something, either articulated and thought out, or blurted out in a moment of insanity, my words carry weight in the public arena. As a result, I must assume personal responsibility for my words and apologize directly to those who have been hurt and offended by those words. The tenets of what I profess to believe necessitate that I exercise charity and tolerance as a way of life. Every human being is Godâs child, and if I wish to honor my God I have to honor his children. But please know from my heart that I am not an anti-Semite. I am not a bigot. Hatred of any kind goes against my faith. Iâm not just asking for forgiveness. I would like to take it one step further, and meet with leaders in the Jewish community, with whom I can have a one on one discussion to discern the appropriate path for healing. I have begun an ongoing program of recovery and what I am now realizing is that I cannot do it alone. I am in the process of understanding where those vicious words came from during that drunken display, and I am asking the Jewish community, whom I have personally offended, to help me on my journey through recovery. Again, I am reaching out to the Jewish community for its help. I know there will be many in that community who will want nothing to do with me, and that would be understandable. But I pray that that door is not forever closed. This is not about a film. Nor is it about artistic license. This is about real life and recognizing the consequences hurtful words can have. Itâs about existing in harmony in a world that seems to have gone mad. END http://www.drudgereport.com/flash3.htm
People who neeed people, aaaaaaaaaare the luuuuuuuuuuuckiiiiest people i-n t-h-e w-oooooooooooooooooor-l-d... nitro
"But I pray that that door is not forever closed." So that is what Mel says... I wonder if he is praying to the God of the Jews? Isn't that who he should really be apologizing to?
I'm told by a source intimate with his situation tonight that Mel Gibson "was really on the verge of suicide because he felt he was helpless to alcohol and didn't know what to do about it." Sure, my reaction was: sounds like spin. But the source here is someone I've known closely for years. Make your own judgment -- here's the rest of what he told me about Gibson (mugshot left): "No one's really asking questions about his state of mind. That's why he was driving around 90 miles an hour. This was a death wish. If that cop hadn't stopped him, this guy was going to be wrapped around a pole. This is such a bigger issue than 'Will he work again?' This is about his not wanting to live anymore. I've seen what he's gone through and what he's going through. You have to understand the disease of alcoholism. He was back in it. There's no doubt in my mind he was trying to kill himself that night." As for his anti-Semitic slurs during his DUI arrest, I'm told that Gibson doesn't remember saying them. "Why? He had alcoholic blackout syndrome. I don't know a lot about it. I've not had a lot of experience with it. He has some recollection of parts of the evenings. But he's not denying he said those things, and if anything he's owning up to it. But nobody could verify it. Not even he or his lawyers have seen the police report yet." The insider called Gibson's situation "tragic. It's not about what people are focusing on, understand that. 'This is Mel Gibson. He can do whatever he wants. He has all the money in world. He has a wonderful family. He has a wonderful wife.' They're not thinking about the real issue here: alcoholism. Nobody is talking about his alcoholism." Presently, I'm told Gibson is in a non-residential alcohol recovery program in the Malibu area. UPDATE: *Publicist Alan Nierob informed the Los Angeles Times for its Tuesday edition that his client Mel Gibson "is fighting for his life" in his struggle with drinking.* http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.c...-before-his-dui-arrest-this-was-a-death-wish/
Mel has been one determined mother establishing his financial success but for me Mel always struck me as very very shallow. Apart from some good past film work, all you get from Mel on screen is Mel playing Mel. He is aging fast and is no longer a young promising actor. Booze is for the shallow minded seeking escape and he is just another Aussie weighed down with a giant chip on his shoulder. Can't say I haven't myself binged the night away in a bar or club but I've just never had the urge to do it to pattern. Booze can be fun occasionally .. but its the weak addictive types who do get very very repetitive with a particular habit whether its boozing or jacking your life away with a f**ked up emotional mindset or whatever else by way of a self imposed affliction.