Celebrities defending Mel Gibson

Danny Glover Defends Mel Gibson

Don’t forget Jodie Foster.

Jodie Foster Defends Mel Gibson

"hugging the cactus" at 2:20

Robin Williams Defends Mel Gibson

Gene Simmons Defends Mel Gibson

Anything from Trump or Jon Voight or James Woods? Because I value what these people think about Mel.

Gibson is an alcoholic. If you know anything about alcoholism, you know that people say and do things they never would otherwise. In some people alcoholism gives full fury to their resentments and anger. And lots of good people have these things living in them. I really don't know whether Gibson is a good person or not- I do know that his rep on movie sets is quite good. Down to earth, kind, no big star entitlement. His racist and antiSemetic remarks seem to have occurred when under the influence. He also has that horrible father and RC background that he doesn't really separate himself from effectively. But I understand the loyalty he has from those in the business, including people of color and out gay people.

Well, at least we know he never needed alcohol to show he was an homophobe

OP, I can see you PUSSY from behind!

Peter Weir Defends Mel Gibson

Sigourney Weaver Defends Mel Gibson

"Sigourney Weaver has spoken out in defense of disgraced actor/director Mel Gibson, insisting he was a kind and generous man when they co-starred in the 1980s.

Weaver, who performed opposite the Australian in 1982 movie The Year of Living Dangerously, insists, “I didn’t notice any bigotry in him whatsoever.

“He was one of the nicest guys I’ve ever worked with… I can only go with what my knowledge of him was.

“If anything, he seemed incredibly generous to everybody. I don’t really know where it comes from. It’s a shame–I hope he works this out.”

[quote]I will take the word of those who knew Mel Gibson personally over a greedy golddigger and a bunch of sensitive angry hypocrites.

And a Jew cop.

Andrew Garfield praising Mel Gibson

Heath Ledger praising Mel Gibson

At least Joan Rivers didn’t defend him!

Jodie Foster: Mel Gibson is 'Kind and Complex'

R16 Ewww

Karma is a Bitch!

M. Night Shyamalan Defends Mel Gibson

Sylvester Stallone praising Mel Gibson

Vince Vaughn praising Mel Gibson

I don’t know Mel, and I’m impressed that he has such loyal defenders, but...

If you’re really a good person, why do you need everyone defending you?

Goldie Hawn Loves Mel Gibson

Why all the posts on this? Did I miss something? He meltdown again?

I have never been happier to see the collapse of a movie star’s career than when Mel Gibson got exposed for the racist, anti-Semitic, misogynistic swine he is.

He's still a cunt.

Good for Joan.

R22 Because good persons can mess up at times, in Mel case, it's Alcoholism. But the non famous people don't find their drunk irrational rants tapped and published online.

Sorry, but no. The comments about burning homeless people and all his homophobic remarks came way before his meltdown. What happened to him was simply karma

Mel Gibson Talks About Alcoholism.

I've read that he's sober for years now. Wish him All the Best.

Jackie Mason Defends Mel Gibson

Whoopi Addresses Mel Gibson Backlash

Gary Oldman Blasts Hollywood Politics, Defends Mel Gibson:

Gary Oldman has blasted Hollywood for what he perceives as a double standard — asserting that Bill Maher and Jon Stewart can get away with politically incorrect humor while others like Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin cannot.

He also expressed sympathy for Gibson, “Mel Gibson is in a town that’s run by Jews, and he said the wrong thing because he’s actually bitten the hand that I guess has fed him – and doesn’t need to feed him anymore because he’s got enough dough,” Oldman said. “He’s like an outcast, a leper, you know?”

“I don’t know about Mel. He got drunk and said a few things, but we’ve all said those things,”

“We’re all f****** hypocrites,” he added. “That’s what I think about it. The policeman who arrested him has never used the word n***** or that f****** Jew?”

“I’m being brutally honest here,” Oldman said. “It’s the hypocrisy of it that drives me crazy.”

Did he died? because i don't understand why this thread even exists. His friends can sing their praises all they want, that doesn't change the fact he is nothing more than homophobic scum

I recall listening to his rage filled conversation with his ex wife. She was deliberately pushing his buttons as hard as she could and recording the result. Really nasty lady who deserved to be hit by a bus.

Whoopi is the kind of black white racists like.

Pink defends Mel Gibson:

"I'm a fan of his work. And I'm Jewish. Alcohol makes you do crazy things."

R35 Totally agree.

She wasn't his ex-wife though, she was his gold-digging girlfriend.

Robert Downey Jr is one of Mel Gibson's best friends and most ardent defenders. Of course, he'll never have to answer for it, because he's Iron Man and that means he's beyond criticism or cancelation.

Pink is Jewish?

Why is everyone talking about Mel? What gives? This is old news

More of RDJ defending Mel Gibson.

Here's a vaguely homoerotic video of them together.

Mel Gibson stood by and supported Robert when Hollywood wouldn't insure or hire him. Mel Gibson personally insured him and gave him a starring role in the Singing detective movie (2004) that Mel produced.

I didn't watch The View clip but I remember distinctly how Whoopi was going on and on about how Mel wasn't a racist, she knew Mel, he was drunk and Barbara shut her down with "In vino veritas."

Whoopi's entire argument was that Mel couldn't be racist because she was his friend, which is the sort of bizarre logic someone who is really out of touch makes.

R44 It's Not only Whoopi who defended him, There are Many others (in OP video and the other videos/articles in the thread).

This thread is desperately trying to prevent Lethal Weapon 5 from tanking at the box office. Guess what? It’s still going to tank.

Courtney Love: Mel Gibson Helped Me Get Sober:

"Courtney Love, now clean and sober for 15 months, says she had some high-profile help on her road to recovery: Mel Gibson.

While she was doing drugs with some men in a posh Beverly Hills hotel room, Love revealed on Tuesday’s Good Morning America, the leading man – who himself only recently underwent his own sobering experience – showed up along with addiction counselor Warren Boyd.

“Mel kept coming to the door with this cheesy grin going, ‘Hi!'” Love said. “I just kept looking at him going, ‘Blank off!’ I know him and he’s a nice guy, but it just didn’t matter who it was. It could have been Jesus. I didn’t care.”

But the others doing drugs with her recognized Gibson and left with him to get a cheeseburger – leaving Boyd alone with Love to coax her into rehab.

Mel Gibson believed in RDJ when no one did.

At 0:13

He may be an alcoholic, and he may say things when he's drunk he'd not say when he is sober. But, it's well known he is a very homophobic man, sober or drunk. He has made no bones about the fact that he thinks homosexuality is unnatural. Plus he's a well known religion nut. He was raised by a lunatic father who taught him all about hating.

R35, I forgot about her! That’s exactly what Amber Heard did with Johnny Depp, minus the baby. These men are such suckers. At least Amber was young and beautiful. That Russian woman was a troutlipped hagatha.

R49 Gay brother defends Mel Gibson:

MEL Gibson's adopted gay brother has never revealed his secret identity or truth about his famous family, until now.

Andrew Gibson, 43, has finally broken his self-imposed silence after watching his sibling's reputation get torn to shreds in the wake of allegations by his ex-partner Oksana Grigorieva and his impending divorce from wife of 28 years, Robyn.

"When I heard them I just thought, 'That isn't Mel'. He has never said anything abusive, aggressive or racist in his life," he told The Sunday Times.

"I just had to turn the TV off and turn it to the wall for two weeks so I didn't have to listen. The rest of the family did the same."

While he admitted his brother had made homophobic remarks during a 1991 interview, But an openly gay Mr Gibson said his brother's comments were not meant to cause any offence and, when he had come out to family and friends more than two decades ago, Mel had been supportive.

"He's a straight man and he was illustrating that fact. In the same way a gay man wouldn't want to have sex with a woman," he said.

"He never meant to upset anyone. I have never once heard anything anti-gay come out of his mouth.

"(Coming out) was one of the most terrifying things I have ever done. I was 22. When I told my dad he cried and blamed himself he felt he had done something wrong.

"I think they all suspected. I was at a family dinner at Aria restaurant when I told Mel. He just said, 'It's not my choice, but I love you and you're my brother'."

"She (Robyn Moore) is one of the strongest women I have ever met. It was incredibly sad when they split. It's just that sometimes people fall out of love with each other."

She is now in line for a potential payout of half of the actor's $US1 billion fortune. But he says Mel would give her every last penny.

""He doesn't really care about money at all he would rather have love and happiness in his life," he said.

R51 So his brother's internally homophobic. Shocker.

R50 I don't know what these famous men (Timothy Dalton, David Foster and Mel Gibson) saw in her. In one way or another, they all left their wives/longtime partner for her!!!

[quote]At least Joan Rivers didn’t defend him!

She's a Zionist who said things on par with him but about Palestinians, so she can burn in hell. Her only issue with Mel was his target. She's a racist asshole like him.

So, OP what is it exactly that brings your here to defend a homophobe like Gibson?

I love people who value the word of a right-wing racist like Gary Oldham or someone like Jodie Foster who is gay but is friends with a vocal homophobe like James Woods

RDJ is an EP of Dolittle. If he and Mel are still BFFs, why didn’t RDJ cast him as one of the voices for a CGI animal? They could have winked at the audience by casting Mel as an ass or a pig.

Maybe there’s bad blood. I can’t imagine that Mel would turn down the offer.

I guess Mel is waging a campaign to get back in the public good graces. Don't worry Mel have you seen who is president? You're a rich white male and you will get a pass from those who are as screwed up as you. Unfortunately there are a bunch of those people, so you guaranteed a pass. But as a black person I see who you are. And I know you see me as a one of those packs of n*ig*gers who will rape your girlfriend.

That gay brother is more likely just trying to stay in Mel's good graces for when the will is read. He wants to be in it. If Mel was penniless I doubt the brother would have said a word publicly.

R59 And what about the several different friends who are defending Mel?! They want to be in his will too?!

Defending Mel Gibson doesn't make me think more of him, it makes me think less of the defending him.

Hey sugar-tits I’m rehabilitated!!

R62 Mel Gibson : I Never Said "Sugar Tits"

It was the arresting officer who threw around the term.

R63 That disappointed me. I mean, who couldn't love a guy who added "sugar tits" to the lexicon?

I always liked Mel Gibson, who seems like a well-meaning person gripped by alcoholism. RDJ's stories about Gibson (which include picking RDJ up from a crackhouse in the middle of the night to buying him groceries when he was unemployable) point to him being an empathetic person.

He seems to be trying to make amends for his past misdeeds too. He has been quietly helping a charity that aides Holocaust survivors for years now.

Take him or leave him.

Mel Gibson has a loooooong history of being homophobic, anti-semitic, racist, anti-feminism. It's not just comments he may have made once or twice while he was drunk. Yes he obviously acquired this by being raised by a hate-mongering father, but it's part of his character. My father was also racist, xenophobic, etc, but I've never made the same remarks when I was inebriated. And I certainly don't have anybody saying I made disparaging hateful comments while drunk. Sure he may have been good and kind to his close actor friends, but does that excuse him? He's nowhere as bad as the action by monsters like Cosby or Weinstein, but let's not paint him as just misunderstood either.

OP = O'Neal Troll with a new obsession

R67 Huh?!

RDJ , said when he waa locked up in prison, Mel Gibson was the only one who was still there for him. He didn't write him off like everyone else in Hollywood had. He refused to give up on him. He stayed in contact with him when he was in the clink.

RDJ, when he got whatever award I can't remember right now at the Golden Globes pointedly had Mel Gibson at his table. I remember Jodie Foster doing something similar.

My issue with the tapes from that Russian hustler, is not knowing if they were edited. If she was deliberately pushing his buttons and made sure that wasn't in there.

You also have to remember, she was pretty much trying to do a shakedown for more $#. His offer was to give her 20 million in cash, buy an expensive house in her name and pay child support for the kid.

She got greedy and tried to force his hand for more. She should have taken his damn offer. Didn't the Judge award her less than $1,000,000 and she had to file bankruptcy?

He also tried to get Britney Spears sober. I am remember seeing something about him trying to help Whitney as well.

R69 All True!

Mel Gibson Tried To Save Whitney Houston From Drug Addiction!

Mel Gibson was invited to Whitney Houston‘s funeral … and the family extended the invite because Mel tried to help the singer during a very dark period in her life … TMZ has learned.

Sources tell us … several years ago, when Whitney was about as bad off with drugs and alcohol as she ever was, Mel quietly intervened and spent a lot of time with her, trying to help her break the addiction cycle.

We’re told Whitney’s family is “extremely appreciative” and wanted Mel at tomorrow’s funeral, but because of family plans he can’t attend.

R66 is correct

Mel Gibson Explains Why He Reached Out To Britney Spears - 2009

Mel Gibson has gone on the record about reaching out to Britney Spears during her troubled days last year.

While serving as the special guest on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,”, Mel explained why he got in touch with the pop star.

“Well, she’s a nice kid… She was just going through a rough patch, so I figured… you look around and you see kids that, you know, in the industry and poor Heath,” Mel said. “I just felt like this poor kid, she’s lining up to be stoned. The press was going at her and everything. I just thought, ‘I wonder if anyone is actually reaching out to her,’ so I just called her and she’s doing great now... it’s got nothing to do with me, actually she pulled herself out of it and her dad [helped too].”

OT: A little Robert Downey Jr. trivia. He was cell mates with none other than Leslie Jordan (Beverly Leslie on Will & Grace) for a short while, in the LA jail.

Wow, Hollywood defending a rich white wife beating actor. They don't do stuff like that.

Following R46, OP is an intern at PR for the upcoming release of Lethal Weapon 5. That's why this thread exists. To preempt any shitstorm of negative stories about Gibson's past behavior.

But LW 5?? Five??? Seriously.

Following R46, OP is an intern at PR for the upcoming release of Lethal Weapon 5. That's why this thread exists. To preempt any shitstorm of negative stories about Gibson's past behavior.

But LW 5?? Five??? Seriously.

The only reason Robert defends him is because he give Robert a job when no one else would in town would. After seeing Doctor Dolittle and those crappy marvel movies. I wish that mentally ill drunk hadn't.

R76 "OP is an intern at PR"

Thanks for overestimating me!!

Mel Gibson helped Britney Spears back in 2008 and tried to help Lindsay Lohan.

He is capable of grandiose gestures of kindness. While filming How I Spent My Summer Vacation on location in a prison in Veracruz, Mexico, Gibson learned that an elderly Mexican extra was suffering from cancer. "Gibson found him an alternative cancer therapist in Arizona," says Biskind, who was told the story by a crew member. "He got him a visa by writing to the American ambassador and then flew him there. And this guy was Jewish! The director, Adrian Grunberg, is also Jewish. It just doesn't compute."

"I've never seen him be antisemitic or racist, not at all," says Kim Winther, who was first assistant director on The Patriot and We Were Soldiers, both of which Gibson starred in. "I never saw him lose his temper, not once. I wouldn't even know what that's like. He was always wonderful, open and great with my wife and kids."

Was Winther shocked when Gibson's outbursts became public knowledge? "Yes. It was a shock to anybody that knew him."

Whatever, shill.

Just because you're an alcoholic doesn't give you the right to say or do anything you want. He's completely lost it. His good looks are gone and his reputation. I don't care how many stars defend him. He's still a bad joke.

The friendship between Mel and Jodie MYSTIFIES me. I mean, what do they talk about? Lesbian issues? Feminism?

Robert Downey stopped acting and I stopped liking him.. Downey is a big old hypocrite and I am over him.

R84 In Jodie's Golden Globe speech, she said to Mel, "You know you saved me"

At 10:08

A person like Mel? I hate them. There are many things about him I hate and I would never again buy a ticket to one of his films.

Mickey Rourke Says Hollywood Tried to Hex Mel Gibson But He's Got Too Much .

I think Mel Gibson does the good acts mentioned here to help offset all the bad shit he says and does. It's an attempt at redemption, only it seems he doesn't really change.

I've forgotten most of the controversy surrounding him except for the phone call to the ex-girlfriend. I thought at the time she was baiting him. Plus excerpts were released over several days, making it seem like there were several phone calls but it was actually one phone call.

R90 It was obvious shakedown, Here's some of Oksana emails to Mel, 2 months after the "rants", Trying to pursue and manipulate him after he called it quit. The emails show a woman in hot pursuit more than someone who fears for her safety

In an email sent on March 30, Oksana writes Mel, "I don't belive (sic) that u stopped loving me just in one phonecall. U either stopped loving me a long time ago or u still love me."

Oksana accuses Mel's estranged wife, Robyn, and daughter, Hanna, of turning Mel against her, writing, "...it's easier to blame the outsider, ur love, completely unpretected (sic). So u betray me."

Oksana adds, "Love like that doesn't die so quickly."

And in another email, dated May 2, Oksana writes, "Until this morning I was still missing you so much and secretly wanted and hoped for us to be together again," adding, "I still believed that you loved me, but now I dont."

In the May 2 email, Oksana goes on: "I see now, that you seemply (sic) growen (sic) tired of me a while ago, but you were too weak to tell me."

The emails are significant, because they show a woman in hot pursuit more than someone who fears for her safety.

R90, she didn't have to bait him too much, since he's a bigot. The misogynists here will attack any woman, even if it means defending a homophobic right-winger like Mel

Another Oksana's emails to Mel after his "rants" :

Oksana Grigorieva sent Mel Gibson an email on March 1, 2010 ... telling him he had no reason to be hard on himself and professing her love for him ... at the very time she now claims she was in fear for her life.

Oksana's email was sent less than 2 hours after she received an email from Mel in which he called himself a "f**king failure." TMZ has obtained copies of both Mel's email and Oksana's response.

Oksana emails on her iPhone, "Please don't torcher urself like that, please!!!! U dint do anything to be so hard on urself. U r amazing man and always will be in my eyes and I will make sure Lucy knows it."

But Oksana's email goes on: "U r an anusually extraordinary person. Ur versitile talent speaks louder than the words! U r capable to make a masterpiece about jesus and to build the church for him! U r just one person, but u did this! In itself it's a lifetime wearthy atchivements, but for only chosen one."

Oksana ends her email by writing, "I love u, that doesn't change. Even if u don't want it anymore."

Mel Gibson was obviously struggling and stuck in a toxic unhealthy relationship

Mel Gibson to Oksana: 'I'm a F**king Failure':

Mel Gibson blasted out an email to Oksana Grigorieva on March 1, 2010 -- in which he told his baby mama that he is a "f**king failure."

In the email -- sent from Mel's iPhone nearly two months after the "rants" -- Mel writes, "I really am losing my grip. I desperately need a solution. I can't stand anything any more ... I'm stuck."

Mel continues, "I try to be ok but it overpowers me & i'm (sic) something I don't want to be. It's a primal scream thing. The pain is too great & everywhere I turn is making it heavier. Oh to have peace! Oh to have joy. Oh to be able to provide it for another. I'm a f**king failure."

^ None of that changes the fact that Mel is a drunk bigot. Next!

Do you really expect Mel to be with someone normal? He's crazy.

I don't really have that much sympathy for drug addicts or alcoholics so whatever. He's still a nut.

R97 His first wife was "normal", the marriage lasted 28 years.

Us two-time Oscar winners are pure class.

Yeah, and he left her because she got older and was no longer "hot"

I think the only reason she stayed with Mel was because they had like 10 kids. He cheated her repeatedly. Glad she got half his millions.

According to DL gossip from back in the day, he would have underage Thai girls flown onto the sets of his movies. This was when he was still married

R69, that just makes me think less of RDJ .

You can post 600 posts of how great Gibson is an it won't change the fact that he's a bigot and a homophobe. So, again, why did you pick here of all place to defend Gibson?

Wow. Someone is going really hard trying restore Mel Gibson’s reputation and blaming all his problems on the Russian “hustler”, as if he didn’t say those things himself and hasn’t been known for his racism, anti-semitism, homophobia and misogyny all his life. He’ll never live it down. Too late, and too long out in the cold to have a comeback.

When Trevor Noah made that joke about him at the Oscars Tina Fey and Amy Poehler were shown looking on stone-faced. Poor Mel is such a victim. Oh, to be rich white male, coddled by the world because so many people are so unfair to him and they don’t understand the pressures of A-list stardom.

No r101, she left him.

R104 You made your point buddy. Now, move on to your favorite Hollywood celebrity's thread.

I guess nobody read the Joe Esterhaus book about Mel Gibson that mentioned that they had recordings of him screaming like a psychotic while they were on vacation.

He’s a mentally ill, racist fuck, and LW5 will tank.

Mel Gibson : The Humanitarian

R107, no thanks. I'd still like an answer, why here or all places to defend a bigot and a homophobe?

There are a lot of people out there who will defend Trump. And your point is?

My point is that this is a terrible place to defend a bigot and a homophobe whether its Trump or Gibson, and it shows a total disregard for the forum and its posters. From Trump supporters that's a given, but going scorched earth for Gibson on DL of all places is pointless and offensive.

R112 Comparing Mel Gibson to Trump is just stupid.

Take your sensitive self somewhere else, my dear.

Complain to R111, R113.

And no, I won't go somewhere else, a bigot and homophobe is a bigot and homophobe regardless of who it is. Gibson doesn't get some sort of pass just because some people have said nice things about him. That's what's just stupid.

Who cares what dumb celebrities say? Gibson is an asshole.

Mel Gibson Talks Frankly about Hollywood - 1998

Mel Gibson Talks About Women in Hollywood

Christopher Walken is a creep.

Mel Gibson Talks About Christopher Walken

Wait ... OP, are you Marmar? Is this just some bullshit to get views for your Mel Gibson videos?

R119 No, I discovered this YT channel with its Mel Gibson treasures.

Don't his movies go straight to Amazon prime now. I think Nic Cage and Eric Roberts have some competition.

I would never thought of putting Mel Gibson in the same sentence as treasure. Maybe sunken like his face.

R121 Not all of them, however, it's a true shame, because Mel Gibson is a brilliant genius filmmaker/actor.

R122 Mel Gibson is a real treasure.

R124-Robert Downey jr. Are you back on here? Can I get my money back from your Doctor Dolittle movie? It was a turd.

This thread reminds me of all the pics and stories of celebrities sucking up to Weinstein.

R126 Why suck up to Mel Gibson?! It was not like he would give them jobs or hire them like Weinstein could. Mel Gibson was jobless for a long time. They genuinely love Mel and wanted to support him during his unfortunate struggle.

R90 In some of the recordings, what Grigorieva said to him is redacted, which definitely points to her baiting him.

Oksana to Mel: Here's Why I Played the Tape

Oksana Grigorieva sent Mel Gibson a long email on March 30, 2010 about the tapes she secretly recorded

Oksana says, "As far as the tapes go, I only played one to my lawyer, becouse on march 15 Michelle proposed on ur behalf not a very generous gift for our daughter and there was nothing for me."

Oksana adds, "My lowers also told me that Tom Hansen [one of Mel's lawyers] said I wouldn get a penny ..."

R69, No, I truly believe he is a real deal bipolar. I have been around a few in my personal and professional life.

I am not condoning or excusing his behavior. Not a stan or even fond of his films.

I just really find the juxtaposition between the sober, properly medicated Gibson vs the alcoholic off the meds Gibson.

It is also interesting to me, the people who refuse to turn their backs on him.

R130 It's true, Mel Gibson is bipolar. I didn't want to mention this because it's a private matter, but It's true that Mel is manic depressive.

"Mel Gibson talks about being diagnosed as bipolar in a new documentary about the NIDA acting class of 1977.

The Hollywood star was interviewed by his classmate Sally McKenzie about his memories as a student in a stellar year that included Judy Davis, Steve Bisley, Robert Menzies, Annie Byron, Debra Lawrance, Linda Newton and the theatre director Peter Kingston.

"I had really good highs but some very low lows," Gibson said. "I found out recently I'm manic depressive.""

[quote] Gibson is an alcoholic. If you know anything about alcoholism, you know that people say and do things they never would otherwise.

If you know anything about alcoholism, you know that people, whether under the influence or sober, are fully accountable for their actions before the law and before other people.

You're making excuses for him, charlie. Mel Gibson is FULLY responsible for everything he said or did while drunk.

Staunchly Catholic Jew-hating trash Hutton Gibson begets Jew-hating trash Mel Gibson begets Mel Gibson hypocritical apologist trash.

If Jew-hater Gibson had ranted on about niggers as he did about Jews, no one would be apologizing for his racism and he'd be persona non grata.

But Jews? Well, that's something else, innit?

Mickey Rourke : Mel Gibson is a good dude.

Mel Gibson Talks fondly About Robert Downey Jr.

Jodie Foster On Loyalty To Mel Gibson

Lucy Liu Loves Mel Gibson

Sigourney Weaver Loves Mel Gibson

Also defending him "Sigourney Weaver Defends Mel Gibson "Sigourney Weaver has spoken out in defense of disgraced actor/director Mel Gibson, insisting he was a kind and generous man when they co-starred in the 1980s.

Weaver, who performed opposite the Australian in 1982 movie The Year of Living Dangerously, insists, “I didn’t notice any bigotry in him whatsoever.

“He was one of the nicest guys I’ve ever worked with… I can only go with what my knowledge of him was. If anything, he seemed incredibly generous to everybody."

Tina Turner Loves Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson Talks About Tina Turner's advice

Mel Gibson Talks About his Life being Threatened

He was so gorgeous in the '80s - The Year of Living Dangerously, The Bounty, Tequila Sunrise.

Hey, intern who keeps spamming: Lethal Weapon 5 will tank and Mel’s image can’t be rehabbed. Tell your boss.

All these celebs defending him, because he’s one of their own, has had no effect. Maybe people just know bigotry when they see it?

Oksana's emails sound like they were written by our beloved Vairst Letty.

RDJ is a smug shit, glad Dr. Doolittle was a huge flop

[quote]He was so gorgeous in the '80s - The Year of Living Dangerously, The Bounty, Tequila Sunrise

I was jealous of Michelle Pfeiffer's character in Tequila Sunrise, I wanted Kurt Russell and Mel Gibson fighting over me.

This reminds me of a friend I grew up with who became somewhat famous ( notorious would probably be more suitable ). As he became better known he became more his ‘persona’ than his actual self. To the extent that our friendship drifted as I didn’t want to be part of the world he was adopting and for which he was becoming something of a figurehead.

When he died ( too young, drugs not drink ) so many people insisted that behind the persona was a caring, gentle person. The person I had known as we grew up together. But it struck me that so many people saying it just confirmed how rare it was that people actually saw that side of him anymore and that the persona he had created to become famous and deal with the fame had taken over so much. So many people excusing you behaving like a prick and insisting you really are not suggests you often actually are. Otherwise, why even bother mentioning it ?

I don’t care if all of Hollywood love him you don’t really know someone unless you live with them. Drunk or not he sounded terrible on those tapes.

We must remember the real reason why we hate him. In his Oscar winning movie he had a gay character pushed out a window to his death for a laugh. We hate Martin McDonagh for doing almost the same thing in Three Billboards.

I think Kevin Spacey, Harvey Weinstein, James Franco, Danny Masterson, Prince Andrew think he's cool too.

OP, it's all very nice but you forgot Adolf Hitler's endorsement from the grave. Plus, Richard Spencer's, etc.

I can’t get over Whoopi “rape-rape” Goldberg at r32 acting like she wants to fight the audience at home. As if she’s not always on the wrong side of these things.

OP = troll.

He’s a vile anti-semite and racist, and clearly misogynistic and homophobic. This is all recorded in multiple news items over the years.

R153 WRONG. It's Not a black and white situation. Actions are far more important than words of a drunk/bipolar person.

It's 100% black and white. He's a racist and a homophobe, end of story.

You’re blocked, R154. Go fuck yourself, troll.

R156 Thank you for blocking me.

R152 Whoopi is a brave woman who is not afraid to stand up for what she believes in.

Oh, Papa Tooney, we’ve got a LOONY in R154!!

Holy Troll on a Roll, Batman!

This nutcase has posted half of the replies in this thread and started at least three other threads on Mel Gibson!

Muriel! Come collect this wacko, please!

R159 Seethe!

R155 Again, I will take the word of those who knew Mel Gibson personally over sensitive angry hypocrites.

r161, if you want to talk about hypocrites, how about Mel himself? You know, Mister Conservative Family Values who was fucking around on his wife?

Patrick Swayze Defends Mel Gibson

Swayze says, “Mel is a wonderful human being. He is not anti-Semitic.

“People say stupid things when they happen to have a few (drinks), and especially if you don’t drink anymore, or have limited your drinking for a long time and all of a sudden you decide to have one too many with the boys–you are stupid.”

Patrick Swayze Defends Mel Gibson

Swayze says, “Mel is a wonderful human being. He is not anti-Semitic.

“People say stupid things when they happen to have a few (drinks), and especially if you don’t drink anymore, or have limited your drinking for a long time and all of a sudden you decide to have one too many with the boys–you are stupid.”

The Dirty Dancing star is confident the incident will not affect Gibson‘s career, adding, “When you are a pit bull, and you love what you do and you are going to continue to grow, that talent will find its way out.

“Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don’t take it too far.”

Funny, I've been drunk before, but I never went on racist and anti-Semitic rants when I was drinking.....

R162 Mel Gibson is the first person to admit that he's flawed. He didn't didn't pass judgments on others. On the contrary he tries to help struggling friends/people as much as he can. He has great empathy because he understand what struggle means, he constantly struggling and working on himself.

R67 I think you hit the nail on the head.

r166, he didn't pass judgment on others? Excuse me? He's a far right fundie. All they ever do is pass judgment on others.

R161 is apparently Psychic Sue and is able to determine the thoughts and motivations of total strangers on the internet.

"Friends of all faiths say Gibson is a good man, loving father with a blind spot: an addiction to alcohol that, by his own admission, has brought him to the brink of suicide.

That comes as a surprise to friends—many of them Jewish—in California, who describe him as a good man who would pull over if your car broke down."

Mel Gibson Love Jodie Foster:

"Gibson tells the NYT. "I just love her, that's all. You meet people like that sometimes. You just instantly fall in love, and that's it, and it's the purest kind of thing. We call each other up all the time and just say, 'Hey, I love you.'"

He said : 'I kiss the ground she walks on, I adore her. I thought [her speech] was great. I love her.'

OP has posted more than [bold]SEVENTY[/bold] posts on this thread.

Someone has a lot invested in defending Mel Gibson, apparently.

And someone else has spent a lot of time counting posts on this thread.

Jodie Foster Still Passionately Defends Mel Gibson:

"It's not my job to adjudicate his behavior," she tells the Times. "He's certainly not sexist and certainly not racist. I know the guy I know, somebody who's really emotional, who I can have long, long conversations with, who's trustworthy, who shows up for me."

"He's not a perfect person," she said at the time. "He's a complicated person. That's why I love him. He's not just some guy who wants to pose for GQ. He's lived a real life."

"[Gibson] was a shining example of how low you can go when you are young and still pull yourself up," she said. "He took his recovery very seriously, which is why I know he is strong enough to get through this now."

[quote] Talk about invested!

Counting posts takes a minute or two. Posting them takes hours. Yeah, somebody is invested alright.

‘Hacksaw Ridge’ Editor Defends Working With Mel Gibson:

Mel Gibson’s career resurgence was solidified at the 2017 Academy Awards on Sunday night when his film “Hacksaw Ridge” surprised with multiple victories, including an upset win for film editing.

Gibson received a few shots at the ceremony for his personal troubles, but “Hacksaw Ridge” editor John Gilbert had nothing but kind words for the director.

“A public persona of someone, the picture is almost never true,” Gilbert told reporters backstage at the Dolby Theatre when asked whether working with Gibson was as he expected going in. “He’s just a warm, genuine kind of guy. Really passionate and really committed director,” he said. “[He] always wanted to make a great film" Gilbert continued. “He’s a practical joker. I loved to work with him, it was a great time.”

When “Hacksaw Ridge” premiered at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills last October and Gibson walked down the aisle to take the stage after the film screened, the audience gave a rapturous standing ovation.

Mel Gibson Has Shia LaBeouf’s Back:

“When I see someone like Shia LaBeouf with the bag on his head and stuff, my heart goes out to the poor guy … I think he’s suffering in some way,” said Gibson. “People are in line to sort of point the finger at him and say that he’s this, that, or the other. It’s easy to judge. But I’m sure he’s going through some kind of personal, kind of very painful, cathartic thing that he has to exorcise and get out there.” Still Mel Gibson is optimistic that LaBeouf will ride out the storm. “He’ll probably play it out and come back, whatever it happens to be. He’ll be alright. I actually like the kid. I think he’s good. I’ve never met him.”

I wonder if this is Matt Anscher on yet another OCD rampage. it certainly has his distinctive stench.

I tend to favor all those attesting to his character when sober. Substance abuse and in particular alcoholism produces the monster side of people. My guess is that a number of his detractors on this thread have not been exposed to an abusive alcoholic. Decades ago I heard stories from my friends in LA in the movie and TV business. Nice guy with a bad drinking problem. I know people who when active would go out and literally beat people up- something you would imagine unthinkable when sober. Such is alcoholism. I give him the benefit of the doubt. I really don't think people like Jodie Foster would make public statements about him otherwise. He has also been pretty frank about himself as well- without coming off as self absorbed.

R179 Very good post.

As I said before it's not a black and white situation.

[quote] a number of his detractors on this thread have not been exposed to an abusive alcoholic.

You couldn't be further from the truth in my case. I'm very well acquainted with abusive alcoholics, and my criticism of Gibson has nothing to do with anything he has said while drunk.

R180: Yes, it is. He was an homophobe for many many years, way before his fall from grace.

This is one of the weirdest threads i've ever read. You don't expect that kind of Mel Gibson's worship (and revisionism) on a gay website

[quote] As I said before it's not a black and white situation.

And I'll repeat, yes it is.

R166 HE DOESN’T PASS JUDGEMENT ON PEOPLE? Are you snorting cough syrup? He does nothing BUT pass judgement on people. Did you hear what he called tha gold digger? Did you hear the tapes Joe Esterhaus’s kid recorded of him screaming that everyone was shit and everyone was out to get him? This isn’t even bringing up calling Winona Ryder an oven dodger.

But yeah, he doesn’t judge.

R182, I've asked that same question repeatedly with no answer. Why pick here, of all the internet, as the place OP chooses to die on to defend Mel Gibson? This is his goto place to support a known racist and homophobe? It's almost like performance art.

R152 Whoopi Goldberg has never met an abuser of women that she didn't love. Mel Gibson, Chris Brown, Roman Polanski, Bill Cosby, Kobe Bryant, she loves and defends them all. It got so bad re: Cosby that The View finally had to hire a lawyer to come in and sit down with Whoopi live on television and explain to her why Cosby was a piece of shit.

Mel Gibson on Jodie Foster : She's my favorite person

Mel Gibson supported by Robert De Niro, Jamie Foxx :

Robert De Niro and Jamie Foxx are hoping that Mel makes it through this difficult time. Foxx believes that Gibson made a human mistake and hopes that he gets help for it. Showing the same support, De Niro called the incident “unfortunate” and wants him to get through this tough time.

No, unfortunate is dropping your keys in a puddle or spilling your coffee. Mel Gibson's racism and homophobia aren't unfortunate, they're vile.

Am I the only one that thinks Mel Gibson is really on here? Did Jodie tell him about this site? He's really trying to defend himself. Is he trying to con us into seeing Lethal Weapon 15? Fat chance, drunk.

Who's going to defend Mel next? The Pope. 😂😂

Andrew Garfield praising Mel Gibson:

Speaking to The I Paper, Garfield said: "I had long talks with Mel before signing and I got to know him properly as opposed to what you read. We talked about everything and I got to a very sure place. I also spoke to a mentor of mine, who is no longer with us, Mike Nichols, and I asked him what he thought of Mel. He said, 'I think he's a tremendous filmmaker and I think you should go work for him'. We are two Jews, Mike and me, so that was the last push I needed. Mel is a wonderful man and director; and human and fallible, as we all are."

So let me get this straight. Mel and Jodie are friends.

Woody Allen loves Mel.

R194 FAKE post.

Mel Gibson and Woody Allen have no relation whatsoever.

Mr. Burns defends Mel Gibson

Piper Laurie Loves Mel Gibson:

A few years later you co-starred with a new actor named Mel Gibson in Tim, a lovely film.

I saw Mel years later after he’d won his Academy Awards, at a lifetime achievement award for him. Afterwards, my daughter whom he had played with sweetly in Australia when she was eight years old and he was 23, we were invited up with a group of people to his suite where he had old friends, and I was just amazed at how this essentially confident fun loving kid had become so nervous, so ill-at-ease, since his great success. On Tim, he was like a mischievous schoolboy: he liked to be naughty, daring, but there was never anything mean-spirited about him. Quite the opposite. And the things I read about him later on didn’t make sense to me at all. It sounded to me like perhaps the mischievous school boy had been caught publicly having had more than a couple of beers. Mel seemed to love any kind of physical challenge. I drove an open Jeep in some of the scenes and in his off time, he loved to drive it off-road and was just filled with joy when he did things like that. He had a strong need to express himself physically.

This sock puppet defends Mel Gibson

Piper Laurie praising Mel Gibson

At 1:33

[quote] Am I the only one that thinks Mel Gibson is really on here?

He's not. It's Matt Anscher, having one of his many unmedicated meltdowns.

Oh Charlie. Go to bed, boomer.

Substance abuse doesn’t change someone’s “character,” as you put it. It amplifies it. Booze and cocaine don’t make someone racist, they make them uninhibited enough not to care about the consequences.

Blaming Gibson’s behavior on substance abuse does a gross disservice to addicts who aren’t racist/sexist rage monsters.

R201 "Blaming Gibson’s behavior on substance abuse does a gross disservice to addicts who aren’t racist/sexist rage monsters. "

Exactly. I think that's the whole point that is being missed. Alcohol doesn't make one a bigot.

Sylvester Stallone Loves Mel Gibson

R179 Well said.

I've seen people claim that "alcohol makes you who you really are," but alcoholism runs in my family, so I'm familiar with "Jekyll and Hyde" drinkers.

Bi-polar, alcoholism...none of that is good enough to excuse his godawful behavior. He's a prick.

R204 Totally agree

Years ago, I knew someone who drank a lot and became a different person when he drank, he would act like an asshole, scream, shout, be verbally abusive. But the next morning, he would wake up and be completely normal and nice. Alcohol in addition to bipolar are no jokes.

When will the obsessed Gibson hater give in and admit Mel is a great guy

So I'm able to do whatever I want and say whatever I want. As long as I'm drunk. Bullshit. I grew up with alcoholics. Because they were mean losers, I really have never drank. It lost all it's glamour. Mr. Gibson does not get a free pass. I don't care how many celebrities like him. Being a celebrity does not make you a good judge of character. Most of them are just as damaged as he is. What you're selling I'm not buying.

Never, R207. A racist homophobe is never a great guy, never.

Mel Gibson: “I’ve never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion, or sexuality — period,” he said.” I don’t blame some people for thinking that though, from the garbage they heard on those leaked tapes, which have been edited. You have to put it all in the proper context of being in an irrationally, heated discussion at the height of a breakdown, trying to get out of a really unhealthy relationship. It’s one terribly, awful moment in time, said to one person, in the span of one day and doesn’t represent what I truly believe or how I’ve treated people my entire life.”

All I know is that he's a damn good director.

He was stunning, charming, but a mean drunk.

So he's my dad.

Eh, I'll pass.

Muriel!! Come get the Mel Gibson troll, please!

R204: Are you really ignoring that he was a jerk way before the incident? His homophobia is documented all over the years and he carried with pride when he was one of the biggest stars.

People know Mel Gibson for a long long time before his fall from grace. He was always a jerk

I hate him for his shitty movies - The Passion Of The Christ and Apocalypto were both fundie hogwash with a strong streak of xenophobic torture porn, while Braveheart was a homophobic POS.

A damn good director? Maybe compared to Uwe Boll

Mel Gibson is Truly a GENIUS director/filmmaker.

If you are using the term "genius" really, really loosely

Robert Downey Jr. praises and defend Mel Gibson:

“He and I have a friendship that spans well over two decades,” Downey said. “He’s a stand-up guy . . . and certainly when I was not hireable, he put his ass on the line and said, ‘I’ll take that chance.’ ”

Piper Laurie Still Loves and Respect Mel Gibson.

R214 "He was always a jerk"

Not True, but anyway, a "Jerk" who goes out of his way to help others in need and start a charity to help sick children and give them lifesaving operations without publicity is better than a self absorbed "nice" man.

He talked about burning homeless people, and he was a raging homophobe, you are right, he was not a jerk he was way worst than that

R222 "burning homeless people"???

Try harder, my dear.

Robin Williams (a man who suffered Alcohol addiction and knew its hell) could relate to Mel and defended him against the hypocrisy.

Please Muriel get this troll off here. He is in love with Mel Gibson and probably stalking him. Creepy. Get help now.

R225 Seethe.

Muriel! Wake up!!

Mel Gibson Loves Danny Glover

R227, as long as the Mel Gibson troll confines their activity to their own thread it's just self harm, so no action will be taken.

M’s reaction to the Mel Gibson troll at 3:06.

R230 Very well deserved awards for best director and best picture.

Mel Gibson interview - Oscars 1996

Oh yeah, the one where he killed a gay guy for laughs.

R232 It was Not intended for laughs.

I'll remember each and every one of these when Ricky Schroder gets out of jail.

[quote] It was Not intended for laughs.

Laughs? God no! I hate queers. Through them off a parapet!

Oops - "throw" not "through".

R233, bullshit.