Movie star Mel Gibson issued a lengthy statement Saturday apologizing for saying "despicable" things to sheriff's deputies when he was arrested for investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol.
"I acted like a person completely out of control when I was arrested and said things that I do not believe to be true and which are despicable," the actor-director said without elaborating.
The entertainment Web site TMZ posted what it said were four pages from the original arrest report, which quoted Gibson as launching an expletive-laden "barrage of anti-Semitic remarks" after he was stopped early Friday on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California while allegedly driving at almost twice the speed limit.
According to the report, in addition to threatening the arresting deputy and trying to escape, Gibson said, "The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world," and asked the officer, James Mee, "Are you a Jew?"
Gibson publicist Alan Nierob would not comment on the incident beyond the written statement. The Australian, who is a member of a conservative Catholic sect, has been dogged by allegations of anti-Semitism.
A Los Angeles County Sheriff's spokesman said he could not confirm the TMZ report, and detectives would begin investigating today.
Gibson, 50, was arrested after deputies stopped his 2006 Lexus LS 430 for speeding at 2:36am Friday. Deputies clocked him doing 140kph in a 72kph zone. A breath test indicated his blood-alcohol level was 0.12 percent. The legal limit in California is 0.08 percent.
In his statement, Gibson apologized for what he called "my belligerent behavior."
"I have battled with the disease of alcoholism for all of my adult life and profoundly regret my horrific relapse."
He said he was taking ``necessary steps to ensure my return to health.''
Lindsay Lohan might need to do the same.
A studio executive scolded the actress in a letter for her behavior on the set of Georgia Rule and doubted her reasons earlier this week when she said she suffered from heat exhaustion.
James G. Robinson, who heads Morgan Creek Productions, sent the letter to the 20-year-old actress as well as agents, producers and others involved in the project.
Last week, Lohan's publicist told entertainment show The Insider that her client was taken to a hospital where she was treated for overheating and dehydration. Lohan had been filming Georgia Rule in 14-degree Celsius weather for 12 hours that day, spokeswoman Leslie Sloan Zelnick said.
Robinson, 70, wasn't buying the excuse. "You and your representatives have told us that your various late arrivals and absences from the set have been the result of illness; today we were told it was `heat exhaustion.' We are well aware that your ongoing all night heavy partying is the real reason for your so-called `exhaustion,'" Robinson wrote in the letter that was posted Friday on TheSmokingGun.com.
Lohan plays a troubled teen in Georgia Rule, which also stars Jane Fonda and Felicity Huffman. Robinson said if Lohan does not honor her commitments, the studio will pursue "full monetary damages" and take other necessary action to preserve its financial interests.
Another hard-partier, singer Kid Rock, has married actress Pamela Anderson on a yacht near the French Riviera city of St. Tropez, celebrity magazine People said on Saturday.
The former Playboy model announced her engagement to the Detroit rap-rocker on her Web site last week.
"Yes, I'm finally getting remarried ... I'm in love. I'm happy," Anderson wrote on her Web site.
Anderson, 39, and Rock, 35, whose recordings include 1998's Devil Without a Cause, have been romantically linked since the early 2000s but broke off their relationship in 2003.
The blonde actress, who was discovered while watching a Canadian football game and gained international stardom in the 1990s on the television show Baywatch, was previously married to drummer Tommy Lee of rock band Motley Crue, with whom she had two sons.
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