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LOSING JAGUAR DIVISION.
NOW BACK TO TUCKER.
>> WELCOME BACK.
NOW THE LATEST ON GIBSON GATE
AND DON'T WORRY, THIS STORY WILL
OFTNT, AT
FILEDES HAVE
WHETHER THEY
WILL BE, BUT AT LEAST ONE WOMAN
HAS MADE UP HER MIND.
JOY SAYS GIBSON NEEDS TO BE
WELCOMED INTO THE JEWISH
COMMUNITIES BY A PUBLIC SIR
COUPLE SIGNIFICANCE.
.HARSHAY BE A LITTLE
OFORT IS THE
HOLLYWOOD NATION, A FRIEND OF
MEL GIBSON, JOINS US FROM
IRVINE, CALIFORNIA.
THANKS FOR JOINING US.
WERE YOU SURPRISED BY THIS?
>> HOW ARE YOU?
>> I'M GREAT.
I'M CONFUSED.
MERICAK THE REST
ISONMELK
.IRDWIT'S
WHAT ACCOUNTS FOR THIS, WHAT WAS
HE THINKING, WHAT DOES HE MEAN?
>> IT'S SORT OF IRONIC THAT THIS
HAPPENS.
I RIGHT FOR NEWS MAX MAGAZINE
AND WE DO A SUMMER ISSUE ABOUT
CELEBRITIES AND THIS HAS
HAPPENED AT THAT TIME AND WE'RE
BOUTG THIS ISSUE A
EPEOPLIES THAT
ON, BUT YOU KNOW, IT
DIDN'T JUST SURPRISE EVERYONE
ELSE AND IT DIDN'T SURPRISE JUST
ME, IT SURPRISED MEL GIBSON.
IF YOU LOOK AT HIS SECOND
STATEMENT, ONE OF THE THINGS
THE HE'S REACHING
TOCOMMUNITY FOR IS
UNDERSTAND WHERE THE WORDS CAME
FROM, AND TUCKER, ONE IMPORTANT
FACT HERE IS HE'S BEEN AROUND,
HE'S BEEN A PROFESSIONAL IN THE
HOLLYWOOD COMMUNITY FOR THREE
DECADES, AND THIS WHOLE ISSUE OF
ASMMITSEEM
NEVER RAISED, NEVER ALLEGED AT
ALL ABOUT THE BATTLE ABOUT "THE
PASSION OF THE CHRIST" AND WITH
ALL THE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE THEE
WORKED WITH, PRODUCERS,
DIRECTORS, CO-STARS, THE CREW,
TIVE IS A COLLABORA
OF THEMSO MANY
ARE OF JEWISH FAITH, AND THIS
HAS NEVER COME UP, AND THAT
SUPPORTS WHAT HE SAID.
HE IS NOT -- THERE'S NOT AN
ANTI-SEMITIC BONE IN THIS GUY'S
BODY.
>> I GET THAT.
EBUT ON THT
ONED H
"HE PASSION OF THE CHRIST.
I DIDN'T CARE FOR THE MOVIE, BUT
I DIDN'T THINK IT WAS
ANTI-SEMITIC.
I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THE CLAIM,
HOWEVER, HE HAS CONCEDED THAT HE
WAS HE RANTING ABOUT HOW THE
JEWS START WARS OR SOMETHING
ELSE EQUALLY BIZARRE.
M?ROE DID THAT COME
IDEA? HAVE ANY
Y DON'T AND I
DON'T THINK HE DOES ACTUALLY
EITHER, BUT ONE IMPORTANT THING,
AND I ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, I
WATCH YOUR SHOW AND I KNOW YOU
BUT IE THE MAGAZINE,
RFUL POINT WAS MADE
ABOUT THIS NOTION ABOUT WHAT
HAPPENS WHEN ALCOHOLIC-ADDICTED
PEOPLE FALL OFF THE WAGON.
THERE'S BEEN ALL THIS TALK ABOUT
SOMEHOW ALCOHOL BEING A TRUTH
SERUM, AND IF IT WAS, YOU KNOW,
ANAMOTHO
.NIECEBE GIVEN MARCH T
>> -- MR TEEN KNEES.
>> ANYBODY THAT KNOWS ANYTHING
ABOUT ALCOHOL, CAUSES PEOPLE TO
GO CRAZY.
WERE YOU AWARE HE WAS AN
ALCOHOLIC, BEFORE THIS, HAD YOU
UT HISALKED TO HIM ABO
DRINKING?
YOU KNEW HE HAD A PROBLEM WITH
THE ***?
ATARSAL
ANY SOCIAL EVENT, WHEN ANYONE
WOULD OFFER A DRINK, HE'D ALWAYS
TURN IT DOWN, AND I PERSONALLY
ASKED HIM ABOUT IT AND HE
SAY HEED IT, AND HE DID DRINK
HAD A TERRIBLE BOUT WITH
ALCOHOLISM IN THE EARLY 1980'S,
WHICH SUPPORTS IF HE HAD THESE
PENT UP BIGOTRY IDEAS, THEY
.BEFORHAVE COME OUT
HE WAS A TEA TOTLER, AS RECOVER
PLEOHOLICS ARE, AND THE
NINGEVE T
NKS, DOWN
THAT'S HIS
NORMAL M.O.
THIS IS PERSON SOMEONE ACTING
COMPLETELY CONTRARY TO HIS
CHARACTER.
THIS IS A GUY THAT ALWAYS
SUPPORTED POLICE, ALWAYS
SUPPORTED COPS, EVEN DID A
HERIFF.FOR
NT.IERESTING
THAT'S AN INTERESTING POINT.
THAT'S RIGHT, HE CLEARLY WAS
PRO-COP BEFORE THIS AND THEN OF
COURSE, HE WAS ABUSE I HAVE TO
THE POLICE WHILE DRUNK.
HOW LONG HAS HE BEEN DRINKING,
DO YOU KNOW?
HAS HE BEEN BACK ON THE SAUCE?
EXACTLY WHEN HE
FELL OFF THE WAGON, BUT HE WAS
SHOOTING IN A REMOTE PART OF
MEXICO, IT WAS DOUBLE THE NORMAL
IT, HEAT WAS ALLOTTED TO
ND HEEST
A REMOTE AREA, AWAY
FROM HIS FAMILY, AWAY FROM HIS
SUPPORT SYSTEM, HIS FRIENDS, AND
HIS CLERGY AND HIS FAITH AND I
THINK ALL OF THAT MAYBE
NK THIBUTED TO IT,
ERYRECOVA
MALRHE HAS GONE I
TING, HE IS
SPIRITUAL COUNSELING AND HE'S
SEEKING HELP AND PART OF IT IS
TO FIND OUT WHAT MADE THOSE
THINGS BOTTLE UP THAT ARE SO
CRAZY, SO IRRATIONAL AND WITH
HASS,
APPARENTLY SO MUCH THAT EVERYONE
DESIRES, GOOD LUX AND WEALTH AND
SUCCESS, IT'S IRRATIONAL FOR HIM
TO SAY THINGS LIKE THIS.
TO A POLICE OFFICER, SO IT'S A
WHENUSE
EWHEN PEOPL
ALCOHOLIC, THEY'RE IN
DENIAL.
SO THIS IS THEN CAUSED HIM TO GO
INTO A RECOVERY PROGRAM AND
THINGFULLY, HE DIDN'T HARM
.OTHERF OR HARM
>> THAT'S MY FINAL QUESTION, HOW
IS HIS FAMILY -- HE FAMOUSLY HAD
QUITE A FEW KIDS AND MARRIED A
LONG TIME TO THE SAME WOMAN.
HOW IS HIS FAMILY HANDLING THIS?
VIOLATED
BECAUSE
HE WAS MARRIED TO ONE WOMAN, THE
SAME WOMAN, HE HAS SEVEN
CHILDREN AND THEY'RE TIGHT KNIT
AND LOVING AND HE'S BACK
TOGETHER WITH THEM AND THAT'S A
VERY IMPORTANT PART OF HIS
HEALING PROCESS, I THINK, AND I
WORK OUTS IS
SEAU BLY AS A
GTRENDIN, THI
SYNAGOGUE IN HOLLYWOOD HAS NOW
INVITED HIM TO SPEAK.
I THINK THERE'S GOING TO BE A
NEW DISCOURSE AND A NEW DIALOGUE
AND HIS ACTIONS WILL PROVE WHAT
S,MENTAYING IN THESE
THATIN FACT, HE IS
H HIMO HAVE WORKED
IS THISIS, WHICH
ANTITHESIS OF A BIGOT.
>> ALL RIGHT.
JAMES, THANKS.