Mel Gibson Admits Drinking Before and After Arrest...Still Denies Hatred of Jews

“Are you a Jew?” Mel Gibson reportedly asked a Jewish police officer the night of his infamous arrest, when Gibson was caught driving at high rates of speed with a blood alcohol level above the legal limit.

“It’s no excuse,” Gibson told GMA’s Diane Sawyer this morning regarding his drunken tirade that fated night. Still, Gibson seemed a bit glib and animated regarding Sawyer’s inquiries as to whether or not anti-Semitism lay deep in his heart.

“I’ve just been angry all my life,” Gibson admitted, recounting his abilitiy to kill inanimate objects such as toasters. But Gibson did not name the source of his anger, and didn’t touch on the presumtion that any racist views he exhibited may have been birthed in his Holocaust-denying father.

The Relapse
Mel Gibson also confessed on GMA that he’d started drinking two months before his night of “public humiliation on a global scale” that showed the world his relapse. Gibson quipped that “vanity won out” during his mug shot taking, since Mel didn’t want to look as bad as Nick Nolte appeared on his police photo.

And how did his wife of 26 years, Robyn, and their seven children take the news of Gibson’s arrest? 

“It was a little rough that morning,” Gibson said of the following day. While Mel remarked that he didn’t flagrantly chug beers in front of his family as he relayed the bad news, he did “chase it down with a few cold ones.”

Fighting the Spirit of Drunkeness
Is it a case of in vino veritas, which means “in wine there it truth,” or more commonly referred to as a drunken mind speaking the sober truth? Gibson flat out denied any hidden hatred of Jews brought out by swigs of Mescal from Oaxaca that burned its way down Mel's esophagus.

Mel Gison talks to Diane Sawyer on today's GMA

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