Mel Gibson disputes Winona Ryder’s account of homophobic and anti-semitic comments

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Mel Gibson has disputed Winona Ryder’s allegations that he made homophobic and anti-semitic statements at a party they both attended. He did reach out to her, many years ago, to confront her about her lies and she refused to address it with him.” Ryder recounted the alleged remarks as such in a recent interview with The Sunday Times: “We were at a crowded party with one of my good friends, and Mel Gibson was smoking a cigar, and we’re all talking and he said to my friend, who’s gay, ‘Oh wait, am I gonna get Aids?’ “And then something came up about Jews, and he said, ‘You’re not an oven dodger, are you?’” Ryder told the newspaper that Gibson “tried” to apologise later on. The actor previously made similar claims in a 2010 interview with GQ, telling the magazine Gibson “made a really horrible gay joke” and “said something about ‘oven dodgers’” at a Hollywood party. Gibson hurled anti-semitic statements during a 2006 arrest on suspicion of drunk driving, according to a sheriff’s report shared at the time by TMZ.