Mel’s Many Meltdowns

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DUI Drama

"F--king Jews ... [they] are responsible for all the wars in the world," he reportedly slurs during his 2006 DUI arrest.

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Father Knows Best?

In 2004, after his dad, Hutton, 91, called the extermination of 6 million Jews "fiction," Gibson later said, "He can back it up."

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Anger Management Issues

After his 2006 DUI bust, he admitted to Diane Sawyer: "I've been angry all my life. … And I try not to have it manifest itself. I can get really mad. … I can murder inanimate objects."

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Island Issues

In Dec. 2004, Gibson bought Mago Island in Fiji for $15 million. Descendants of the original native inhabitants of Mago, who were displaced in the 1860s, protested the purchase; Gibson said he was only trying to maintain the undeveloped island.

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Bashing Bill

In a July 1995 Playboy interview, Gibson slammed then-President Bill Clinton as a "low-level opportunist" and claimed there was someone "telling him what to do."

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Odd Couple

Courtney Love claimed that Gibson once tried to stage an intervention with her addiction counselor as she did drugs with some guys in Beverly Hills. The guys recognized Gibson and left with him to get a cheeseburger, she said.

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Shocking Split

After 28 years of marriage, he split from wife Robyn, mother of his seven children, in 2009. They kept the details mum, but no prenup means Robyn likely walked away with about $450 million.

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Cuss Fest

In February 2010, he flipped out on a reporter, calling him an "a--hole" for asking him about his 2006 DUI.

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Positive Influence?

He reached out to the troubled singer during her 2008 public breakdown. (They used to be neighbors when the singer previously lived in Malibu.)

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Baby Mama Drama

About two weeks after his wife filed for divorce, he stepped out with Oksana Grigorieva at a 2009 premiere. The Russian singer's mom denied an affair split up Gibson's marriage; Grigorieva announced she was pregnant a short time later.

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Scary Rant

As the two engaged in an ugly custody battle over 8-month-old daughter Lucia, leaked tapes surfaced of the actor berating Grigorieva. He dropped the n-word, f-bomb, demanded sex and threatened to burn down her house.