Gibson Apologizes

Actor Mel Gibson has been the center of controversy on a few occasions during his career, but may have experienced a certain turning point right about a minute or two after the first showing of his 2004 film "The passion of the Christ." He received incessant criticism blaming him of Anti-Semitism, and Jewish leaders claimed the film would incite hatred and even violence against Jews.

Gibson Ties these events to his arrest this summer and has said to ABC`s Diane Sawyer that his drunken, anti-Semitic outburst at police may have stemmed in part from lingering resentment he harbored over the barrage of Jewish criticism at his film. Back then he had claimed that "Jews were responsible for all the wars" and he is now apologizing, saying that the criticism, as well as the war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, got to him.

He denied that his remarks had anything to do with being influenced by the views of his father, Hutton Gibson, a Holocaust skeptic who has said publicly he doubts 6 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis. The interview concluded with Gibson saying he needed to heal himself and to "allay the fears of others and heal them if they had any wounds from something I may have said."

                                 

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