Are you like the rest of us who think Mel Gibson‘s first anti-Semitic rant occurred during his infamous DUI arrest in 2006? Well, that’s not so, at least according to Winona Ryder.
In an interview with GQ, the actress revealed a galvanizing encounter that took place back in 1995, when Gibson insulted both Jews and homosexuals.
“I remember, like, fifteen years ago, I was at one of those big Hollywood parties. And he was really drunk,” 39 year old Ryder told the men’s magazine.
“I was with my friend, who’s gay. [Gibson] made a really horrible gay joke,” the “Black Swan” actress continued. “And somehow it came up that I was Jewish. He said something about ‘oven dodgers,’ but I didn’t get it. I’d never heard that before.”
“It was just this weird, weird moment,” she explained. “I was like, ‘He’s anti-Semitic and he’s homophobic.’ No one believed me!”
Well, there is something Ryder doesn’t admit it in the interview, she and Gibson actually have a couple of things in common: very public encounters and brushes with the law.
Ryder spent time in a mental hospital in the early 1990s after dropping out of “The Godfather III” due to what was termed as depression and anxiety.
“I got really wiped out, and I had a semi-breakdown,” she told GQ. “I wasn’t sleeping, I didn’t know who I was because of different roles.”
And in 2001, Ryder was busted for shoplifting at a Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills, an event that went on to reveal her pill habit.
Taking a reflection on her career, Ryder noted that there’s a “danger” in playing emotional roles that have reflections in your real life.
“I think, yeah, there’s a lot of danger in that,” she said. “And I think that made me freak out a little bit. I think I was playing with fire there, for a while.”
May be, only may be, after the upcoming release of “The Beaver,” where Gibson acts a man caught up in emotional crisis having estranged his family and co-workers, he may perhaps be able to finally admit the same.
