Seriously? OMG! WTF?

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. 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."

Deadline Hollywood 

Yeah, this is just a tactic for us to feel bad for him. Never heard any other drunk celeb say anti-semitic slurs when they were arrested or overly intoxicated, have you? Next sympathy card because I am still not playing this one. 

Star Magazine has confirmed that Mel Gibson has entered an unnamed rehab facility for treatment for alcohol addiction. Gibson’s rep, Alan Neirob, exclusively tells Star, "He is in a program of recovery at this time."Chris Prentiss, a neighbor of Gibson’s and the co-founder of celebrity treatment centre Passages in Malibu, Calif., tells Star: "I understand he has gone to a treatment centre. The center that I’ve heard he’s checked himself into follows the Alcoholics Anonymous 12-step program. And I don’t believe that will help him." Prentiss — who refused to name the rehab center he’s heard Gibson is in — adds: "He needs individual intense therapy by a team of people who know what they are looking for in causes in alcoholism."

TMZ 

I am sure this a save faced forced entry into rehab. His people are hoping we will forget about all of this, but we can not.  

MEL GIBSON’s planned mini-series about the Holocaust may be axed by American TV network ABC after his alleged drunken anti-Semitic outburst at a Los Angeles police officer. An intoxicated Gibson reportedly launched a verbal attack on sheriff’s deputy JAMES MEE after he was pulled over for drink driving on Friday (28JUL06) near his home in Malibu, California. Now his nonfiction TV movie FLORY, charting the true story of a Dutch Jew named FLORY VAN BEEK and her non-Jewish boyfriend who sheltered her from the Nazis, is in jeopardy. American rabbi ABRAHAM COOPER is urging THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST producer to drop the "inappropriate" TV programme and it is believed some Jewish film executives have pledged never to work with the actor again. An ABC spokeswoman says only, "It’s in development, but not very far in. It’s not at the point where you would make those determinations."

Contact Music

Since him and dad do not believe in the Holocaust this movie never should have been greenlighted to begin with. Mel Gibson is going down and I am enjoying every minute of it! 

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Will Disney Desert Gibson for His Mistake? Mel Gibson’s horrendous mistake on Friday morning may have reverberations far worse than he could imagine. For one thing, Gibson is set to release a hugely expensive and largely questionable film with family-friendly Disney on Dec. 8. "Apocalypto," which has no stars, cost at least $50 million. It was a gamble of a vanity project to begin with, set 600 years in the past and with dialogue only from the Mayan dialect of Yucatec. "Apocalypto" was set to open next week, but Disney pushed it back after inclement weather during the Mexican shoot put the movie off schedule. The Dec. 8 date puts "Apocalypto" right in the middle of holiday releases. But now the question is how Gibson will possibly be able to do publicity for such a dicey movie without addressing his embarrassing and rather horrendous behavior Friday in Malibu. It isn’t the first time Gibson has faced controversy before releasing a film, but this is much different. When "The Passion of the Christ" was being readied, it was revealed that Gibson had built a private church for Catholics who did not agree with contemporary church doctrine. It also came out that his father was a Holocaust denier. Gibson refused to repudiate his father’s statements and many reviews of the film — including the one I wrote in this space — accused the director and actor of anti-Semitism. But "The Passion" was funded entirely by Gibson, who used the now nonexistent distribution company, Newmarket Films, to get his movie into theaters. This time, he’s convinced Disney — a major studio with a family-oriented reputation — to put up some of the money, possibly another $50 million for marketing and promotion and to distribute the film. With "The Passion," Gibson also had the built-in audience of church groups to help him. "Apocalypto" doesn’t carry that kind of constituency; its success was going to be built solely on Gibson as a visionary.But will audiences want anything to do with Gibson once the reality of what he’s done this weekend sinks in? I think not. More importantly, will the usual press-junket and media shills who regularly trade control of their interviews for access to a star simply avoid the whole arrest and rant mess so they can talk to Gibson about "Apocalypto?" Maybe it’s naïve to think so, but someone on the red carpet or on a junket will, hopefully, have the integrity to refuse such a proviso. Watch this week to see if Disney will stick with "Apocalypto" or use an "act of God" clause to get out of dealing with this situation. No one can blame them if they do. Gibson’s apology does not deny one word of the police deputy’s report. It’s one thing to have been embarrassed when arrested, and maybe even so drunk as to keep repeating, "My life is f—-ed" over and over once the realization of what’s happened dawned on him. But his anti-Semitic remarks underscore what many have suspected since the "Passion" controversy erupted.As I reported last February, Gibson invested another $5 million tax-free into his Malibu church last year. With 70 or so members, Holy Family Church is designed to follow outdated Catholic doctrine that the Jews are responsible for killing Jesus Christ.Gibson, I wrote, has never quite refuted his father’s statements. In fact, an article I cited from the Pittsburgh Tribune Review revealed that Gibson is planning to fund a church similar to Holy Family in Mt. Pleasant Township, Pa., called St. Michael the Archangel. According to the article, Gibson was persuaded by his father to become involved and may have assisted in the purchase of an existing structure for a little over $315,000.The only upside of this is that maybe Gibson will now find even less support for his planned miniseries on the Holocaust. But the very serious and major downside here is that an international superstar, whom many people admire and respect, now seems to have confirmed our greatest fears about him: that he is a bigot, full of carefully unexpressed hatred that has now spilled out of him thanks to some inopportune drinking.He may be able to rationalize this to himself, but Mel Gibson is going to have a hard time convincing Disney that it should have anything more to do with him.

Fox411 

I really hope so, he needs to pay for what he said and did on Friday. The truth is finally out there about him and we can not forget or forgive his actions and words.

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