A 29 year-old woman has come forward claiming to be Mel Gibson’s daughter. She says her mother was just 17 while she met the then 30 year-old Gibson while hitchhiking in Australia. She said Mel went home to get a mattress and a pillow for the back of his station wagon just in case they, you know, got tired, and that he got her mom pregnant during their brief encounter. Although he had yet to make the Mad Max movies, Mel was quite sure of himself at that age and bragged to the teen hitchhiker that he was going to be a famous actor:

Carmel, 29, said: “I’m not doing it for his money. I just want to meet the man I’ve always known was my dad — and for him to get to know his grandson.”

The paternity suit is the latest blow for the Braveheart star. Earlier this year he was arrested for drink-driving and launched an anti-Jewish tirade against cops.

Legal papers will be served on Gibson, 50, this week and he will either have to admit he’s the father or have a swab taken from inside his mouth for DNA testing.

Carmel — who has seen every film he’s made — added: “I’d love it if he recognised us as family. I’m not looking for a meal ticket. I am happy with my life.”

Her amazing story began in 1976 when Mel, then a young Australian wannabe actor in Adelaide, picked up Carmel’s mum Marilyn as she was hitch-hiking.

The aspiring star — who now has seven children with his wife of 26 years, Robyn — hadn’t even made his first movie when he stopped for the blonde 17-year-old thumbing a lift to Sydney.

Carmel’s mum Marilyn, now 47, recalls: “I was a slim young woman in tight-fitting jeans on the side of the road when a station wagon stopped.

“Mel turned to look at me with those amazing blue eyes and I was mesmerised. He said, ‘Where are you going?’ I said, ‘A long way from here.’

“He told me his name was Mel. He said he would take me all the way but first he had to go home and get some petrol money.

“He made me hide under a blanket in the back of the car, saying something about his mother being in town. We stopped outside a house and he came out with a mattress and a couple of pillows and some petrol money.

“He said he had brought the mattress in case we had to stop for the night. We got on really well. He was charming and funny. He told me he was going to be a famous movie star.

“He said he was going to change his name but I told him not to. I said Mel Gibson was a really nice name and it suited him.

“When we stopped for the night Mel got in the back on the mattress but I stayed in the front. I said I didn’t trust him but to be honest I didn’t trust myself either! He was so sexy. I didn’t have any contraceptives with me and I hadn’t had much to do with guys.

“Eventually he persuaded me to join him in the back. I told him, ‘If anything happens and I get pregnant I’ll come looking for you’. He replied, ‘I am going to be famous. You will always know where to find me.’

“We spent the night making love and talking. But when it got light Mel said he had to be back at work — in an orange juice factory in Adelaide.

“I got out of the car and never saw him again. It broke my heart to walk away.

The 29 year-old has a ten year old son, who could be Gibson’s grandson. She claims that she is not looking for money, but that sounds unlikely.

It seems like Gibson has some powerful sperm if this is true. He has a whopping seven children with his wife of 27 years, Robyn Moore.

Gibson’s gross-out tale Apocalypto is inexplicably first at the box office. That could explain this woman’s motivation.

According to a Courtney Love fansite, Mel Gibson once visited her in her hotel room and staged an intervention for the troubled rock star. When a high Courtney refused to let Mel in, he waited until a delivery guy came to the door and then busted in. It’s unknown exactly what happened in that hotel room over a year ago, but Courtney got sober soon afterwards and now considers Mel her personal saviour:

That’s ironic and all considering that Mel never went to rehab himself after his high profile DUI arrest over a year after supposedly saving Courtney. He entered a “program of recovery” which was presumed to be outpatient since he never checked himself into a facility.

I didn’t pay attention to Mel Gibson’s two part drawn-out interview with Diane Sawyer because I was really sick of him at that point, but considering that he said he felt “powerless over everything,” it’s safe to assume that he’s going to AA meetings.

Mel Gibson’s dad is an anti-semite, and now we know that his son is a drunk driver too. Gibson’s son Christian, 24, was busted for driving drunk while at college last year and spent five hours in jail:

If inpatient substance abuse treatment is good enough for his son, who had completed treatment prior to Gibson’s arrest, why can’t Gibson check himself into rehab too? He must think he’s above that. Drunken arrogance must run in the family.

The Mel Gibson story may be fading from the headlines, but the memory of the uber-rich religious director’s anti-semitic outburst won’t leave our collective consciousness for years. He’s going to be the punchline, the scapegoat, and box office poison for a while. (And C-List actors will keep bringing him up to either support or scorn, whatever suits their publicity needs.)

Cagle.com has lots of clever political cartoons about the Mel Gibson incident. Mel’s career in film and his multiple over-the-top apologies provide plenty of fodder to make fun of him.

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Peter Lewis, Australia
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The Buffalo News
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Grumpy Old Indian Man Stokholm, Sweden
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Michael de Adder, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The Daily News
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R.J. Matson, NY
The New York Observer and Roll Call
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Mike Lester, Rome, GA
Rome News-Tribune
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Doug Marlette, FL
Tulsa World
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Gallery of the Absurd has this fabulous new Mel Gibson bumper sticker. If they would create actual bumper stickers like this, they would sell out.

The pictures of Mel partying it up before refusing a ride home, getting arrested and going apeshit have come out. He looks every bit the aged, washed up bigot.

Mel also said back in the day that he hates gay people, and that he’s such an asshole because he’s a closet case:

He really must hate himself most of all for ruining his posh lifestyle making obscure vanity films.

People are pointing out that if Roman Polanski violated a 13 year-old girl and got his career back after fleeing the country, Mel can too. It took Polanski over twenty years. In Mel’s case, he can probably put his extreme bigotry behind him in about ten.

Maybe he should just invest his money or go into real estate development.

Everyone was saying that Mel Gibson’s career was over after he was caught defaming Jewish people during a DUI arrest. It was assumed that he would go on some sort of unspoken industry black list.

It’s gone beyond passive-agressive whispers and shunning. People are so pissed that they’re calling for an all-out boycott of Mel:

The arresting officer, a Jewish guy with 17 years on the force, is contrite about the whole episode, and insists that he doesn’t want to ruin Mel’s career. Mel did that all on his own.

Meanwhile those stupid women on “The View” are trying to remain relevant by saying that they don’t want to see any more Mel Gibson movies. Countless people undoubtedly agree with them.

The U.S. Jewish Anti-Defamation League has said his colleagues should “condemn him and distance themselves from him.”

And it gets even better – it’s come out that several people offered Gibson a ride home that night and he refused.

Gibson has checked himself into rehab in an effort to do damage control, but the damage is extensive and it’s already done. He’s richer than sin, and unless Opus Dei has taken all his cash he should sit back and enjoy his millions while waiting for this to pass. Maybe he should get some sensitivity training, too.

Now that the news is out that Mel is a royal jerk, the LA County Sheriff’s department figured they may as well release his mug shot. The long beard is gone and he doesn’t look half bad for a drunken bigot.