Mel Gibson say Winona Ryder's claims are '100 percent untrue.'
"This is 100 percent untrue. She lied about it over a decade ago, when she talked to the press, and she’s lying about it now," the statement reads."Also, she lied about him trying to apologize to her back then. He did reach out to her, many years ago, to confront her about her lies and she refused to address it with him."
In response to Gibson's statement, Ryder told ET:"I believe in redemption and forgiveness and hope that Mr. Gibson has found a healthy way to deal with his demons, but I am not one of them. Around 1996, my friend Kevyn Aucoin and I were on the receiving end of his hateful words. It is a painful and vivid memory for me. Only by accepting responsibility for our behavior in this life, can we make amends and truly respect each other, and I wish him well on this lifelong journey.
Gibson's career saw a huge fallout over a decade ago, after a police report from his 2006 DUI arrest revealed he had. The actor was also heard using racial slurs in audio recordings of him screaming at his ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva. The recordings were published in 2010. Gibson apologized for his comments, but it took years for his career to recover. In 2016, he made his directorial comeback with
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