You know, I happen to think of Mel as a massive tool, an anti-semitic nutjob who’s taken one too many cues from his anti-semitic nutjob dad, and who couldn’t learn from his mistakes if he paid them tuition, but this does make me sad.
They were married for almost 30 years, and they had stuck together through some tough times. His wife Robyn is a living saint from everything I’ve seen and heard, and this couldn’t be easy on either of them.
Also, I don’t hate Mel completely. He’s obviously intelligent, he’s got a great sense of humor, and there’s only so far I can go in my dislike of a fellow Three Stooges fan. He also seemed to work really well with kids. He’s not all bad. He’s just not all there. I don’t care enough about celebrities to let it ruin my evening, but tonight I’m going to hug my wife a little more tightly than usual and remind myself why I stay away from alcohol.
Maybe she is looking for someone with less tolerance for Jooos and who isn’t obsessed with being fake tortured in movies, maybe she wants a man who is into real pain.
His wife picked a great time to leave him, too. Right after Easter. I guess she had to at least give him that one day, before she ran off to chase that 12-inch kosher salami she’s always dreamed of.
Since Gibson’s weird little church is more Catholic than the Roman Catholic Church, I assume he doesn’t believe in divorce. But apparently his wife does, which makes me glad we live in a country where you can just decide to ignore what your church says, as long as you don’t break the secular laws.
Still, it’s a shame. They’ve got a huge number of children.
A friend of mines parents broke up after 32 years, he was 24 and he was devastated. Went into near depression for a year, despite being a pretty successful barrister (like his parents). I guess the shock is always there.
I wonder what it is like though, got to be doubly hard when you have been married for so long. All divorces are sad, but where you have been together more than a quater of a century, the roots have to be very deep. In my friends case his father refused to take back his grandmothers rings from his ex-wife (which he had given to her as an engagement) saying it should be for one of their future daughter in laws
Because of Mel’s uber Catholicism (not just run of the mill “mass on Sunday” variety but “The Templars just reunited and sent a telegram for you to ‘Chill’” Catholic) I doubt he’ll get remarried anytime soon.
This is going to be one whopper of a divorce settlement since he had nothing when he married her so it’s all community property. He made over $150 million from Passion of the Christ alone (though he gave loads to charity), and by his own admission he’s been unfaithful to her many times and through all manner of substance problems so she’s got him by the short hairs. Of course I’m pretty sure they’re at the level where he can give her $300 million and still keep 4 houses and a private jet.
I had thought their daughter was a nun but apparently not. She’s married and has two kids (who I’m assuming are by the current husband as if she was a nun I don’t think Jesus would just let them walk, especially after all that hullabaloo over his kid with Mary Magdalene).
Gibson’s fortune is estimated at approximately $900 million, according to U. S. News & World Report and is expected to be the costliest in Hollywood history. Robin Gibson could get up to $450 million.