Media dwells on the sensational. Of course, it draws more readers. I've found this out, just from blogging. If you watch any news at all, you can't avoid the Mel Gibson tapes that are smeared all over every news program. I've always thought Mel Gibson was a decent guy and that's why I liked him as an actor. He had been with his wife Robyn for 28 years and seemed to lead a peaceful family life. That is until he met a Russian (blowfish lipped) starlet, Oksana. He and his wife divorced. He and the girlfriend then had a baby girl together.Now, 8 months after the baby's birth, 3 audio tapes mysteriously appeared to the media, in which he was shouting profanities at Oksana, some of them while she was supposedly holding the baby. The strange thing about the tapes is, he was visibly shaken, accumulating esculating anger, while she appeared to grow calmer. He accused her of extorting money from him and being unfaithful.
This is what I pieced together from listening to radio talk shows and reading various news articles. For a month previous, Oksana and her lawyer had, indeed been trying to extract money from Mel and he was protected by his lawyer. Mel was an alcoholic who had been in AA for many years. Evidently, the news of Oksana being a common gold-digger/cheat (and cementing the deal by having a baby), drove Mel back on the booze.
If you listen carefully to the tapes, his voice is the drunken outburst of a man who had just awaken to the fact that he had been hoodwinked as the typical older wealthy man by an ambitious gold-digging young female. Parts of the tape sound like an anguished animal, more directed at himself, as he discovered he had foolishly destroyed his marriage, his wealth, and probably his career. She was baiting him into rage and the more she acheived her goal, the calmer she got and her voice became lower as she was surer of herself. She accused Mel of hitting her in the face and chipping her teeth. A dentist examined her and said there was no evidence to her face that she had been hit and no teeth were harmed, although some of the media erroneously reported her teeth were knocked out.
His ex-wife, Robyn testified for him that in their 28 years together, he had never been physically abusive to her. It was then testified that a physical abuser will always abuse each woman he's with. Oksana also refused 2 million dollars settlement because according to her lawyer, she would have to share custody of the child.
I'm not condoning Gibson's actions, only reporting the circumstances that could lead to such an uncontrolled outburst.
Men, Narcissism and Testosterone ......... oh, let's put a little age on the man. Add "no fool like an old fool." Watch a life-time career flutter out the window. Move over Gore.
