The hits just keep comin’ today thanks to another terrifying Mel Gibson phone call to ex-lover and mother of his daughter, Oksana Grigorieva. This dispute, apparently about Mel’s refusal to share a babysitter with Grigorieva, features this gem:
I will fire [name redacted] if she’s at your house. I will make it known and fire her. I’ll report her to the fucking people that take the fucking money from the wetbacks, ok?
That said, it pales in comparison with yesterday’s magnum opus of vitriol in which he threatened to kill Oksana (and bury her in a rose garden – awwww!), told her he deserved a blowjob and revealed that he knew his career was over even before the tapes release (but… but… what about The Beaver!?).
It’s really amazing to hear any celebrity – any person, really – so absolutely overcome with rage. The only comparable events I can think of in recent memory are Christian Bale’s Terminator Salvation rant and that message Alec Baldwin left where he called his daughter a pig and those sound kind of cute in comparison. For me it’s not the misogyny and racism that make Gibson’s rants so remarkable, it’s that he sounds like a junkyard dog that some kids are teasing. I never thought I’d hear the star of What Women Want sound so incredibly, completely unhinged.
For extra credit check out the Wordle visualizations of Mel’s rants courtesy of Maureen O’Connor over at Gawker:
He seriously sounds like he is going to kill someone and sooon. TOTALLY insane.
I might be a little late on this one
http://twitter.com/Real_MelGibson
Good for a dozen laughs or so
Mr. Gibson clearly hates and fears women. And for this, I say we string him up by his thumbs…compassionately. Harrumph.
He’s a narcissistic control freak that has finally revealed his shadowy underbelly and it’s not pretty. A lot of people who climb to positions of power are like this—they need the negative characteristics to get where they want to be (power and control). Add to that the addictive issues more of these personality types have and you have a loose cannon waiting to blow (or in this case get blown…sorry).
In short they think they are demigods or more, they want it all there way, and when someone stands up to them all h _ _ _ breaks loose.
Welcome to Mel’s world. He’s been showing us who he is in his movies—which have been a collection of violent, fear-based negativity except for the romantic roles Hollywood demanded of him via contract.