LOS ANGELES — Mel Gibson is heard using a racial epithet and disparaging his then-girlfriend in a recording released by a celebrity-news website Friday.
The two-minute recording posted by includes segments in which a voice sounding like the Academy Award winner’s is heard telling his then-girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva, that she is dressing too provocatively and that it would be her fault if she were raped. He uses the N-word, and the recording is laced with his profanity.
Grigorieva recorded the actor-director because she was afraid he might harm her, the website reported. The actor is heard on the recording harshly criticizing Grigorieva for the way she dresses. He accuses her of lying to him about having breast implants. “If you get raped . . ., it will be your fault,” Gibson is heard telling Grigorieva. “You provoked it.”
Also on Friday, Gibson’s talent agency, William Morris Endeavor, dropped the actor, The Hollywood Reporter and reported. The Associated Press
