Posted on 07/31/2006 11:13:59 PM PDT by claudiustg
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 eveenings. 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 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."
I was reading about his record, and it seems he was arrested for DUI in the early `80`s as well, in Canada. Isn`t drinking in Cananda a requirement though?
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How does one blackout from having a .12 booze level? .12 is about 4 or 5 beers. Check it out....
http://celtickane.com/projects/bac.php
They also say "10 - .15 - Lightly drunk, feeling good, smiling "
He did thank the cop.
My sister's boyfriend was a passenger (for a change) in a vehicle that was pulled over. Both driver and passenger (cuz he is really stupid when he's drunk) were hauled in. Sister's boyfriend blew a .30 and the police were amazed he was still standing. We've all tried to help him but his attitude is "f-off", so I quit trying. I too hope he never kills someone. He's got two dui's that haven't dropped off, and yes, that means that he's had more than that. But he hasn't gone to jail yet, just long enough to sober up. What can I say.....we live in CA.
Alcohol is a great truth serum.
His comments were not something I want to be associated with.
Mel Gibson was beaten in his younger days so bad that his face was hideously disfigured. He was a solitary person until a plastic surgeon operated on him and he turned his life around.
If his father was a person who denied the holocaust, then his father probably disfigured his inner self as much as those who beat him disfigured his face. There are no plastic surgeons for the brain. He has always appeared obsessed to me. His movie the Passion was brilliant.
Of course!
All alcoholics, in order to seek help must realise that they are powerless against the Jews,
That they need to accept a power higher than themselves to fight the Jews,
Have admitted to another person the nature of the evil of the Jews, (etc, 12 steps) LOL
see my above post!
Why is it that most of the alcoholics I know are some of the biggest liars, especially after hitting the sauce?
My dad was an alcoholic. He hit bottom more times than I can shake a stick at. He was,potentially, a very intelligent man who never got a chance to excel in the world because of his addiction to alcohol. It was a life almost totally dedicated to alcohol. It is only by the grace of God and a very strong, determined mom that my siblings and I do not drink.
Dad, towards the end of his life, lost a leg to alcohol. You would think that was a wake up call. He eventually, stopped taking all the pills he needed (blood pressure, heart meds, water pills) in favor of the alcohol. He didn't drive and lived too far from the bars and distributors, but always found someone to get it for him. How do you control that? We couldn't lock him in his apartment. We couldn't stop people from visiting him. We couldn't hire a babysitter to watch him day and night.
Dad died at the age of 75. Mercifully, in the hospital, in his sleep. He could have lived years longer.
It seems like such an easy problem to solve to those who have never been through it. I would not wish it on anybody.
"The rich and famous don't go to AA meetings.Z"
That is just not true. Here is a link to an archived Lawrence Henry piece which ran on the American Spectator site, it discusses the rich and the famous at AA meetings. I hope the link works, it's a pretty good article, written in reponse to Rush Limbaugh's revelation about his painkiller addiction.
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=5534
For a "hopeless alcoholic" Mel Gibson is incredibly productive. He has made and marketed "Passion" and "Apocalypto" back to back. This alleged alcoholic produces mores more than 10 tea totalers. Also produced 7 children. What kind of guy produces 7 children, who has 500 million in the bank, is suicidal?
Especially since he was speeding the last two times he was picked up too.
(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)
"What about his vaunted Christianity and movie depicting Christ's last hours (which I never saw)?"
His "Christianity" is Roman Catholicism, not really Christian at all.
His movie accented the torture and death of Christ, which you'll see represented in Catholic Churches nailed to a cross, when He's not depicted with His heart stuck on he outside of his shirt, in an image that. like alll religious images, is abomination. It's a religion of a dead Christ.
Christianity is all about the risen Christ.
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