Thanks for the clarification. It makes all the difference.
But what does make the difference is finally hearing what Mel has to say for himself. He supposedly had good reason to “slap” her!
For the first time ever, we’re finally getting some of Mel Gibson’s side of the story of what went down between him and his baby momma Oksana Grigorieva last January. All this time, all we’ve heard is Oksana’s account of an evening filled with terror and ending with two knocked out teeth. But Mel’s version is a bit different.
According to Mel’s sworn declaration he’d given a few months ago in his custody hearing, there was a fight the evening in question between Oksana and him and at the end of it, he did in fact slap her, but Mel alleges he did it for the sake of his baby. Mel claims that amidst their argument, Oksana snatched baby Lucia from her bassinet to bring her right in the middle of their feud. Mel alleges that Oksana shoved the baby in Mel’s face and scream, “Stop yelling or you will make her into a retarded brain damaged idiot!”
The story takes a turn for the worse as Mel says Oksana then “spun around” and dashed out into the backyard. This concerned Mel as he explained the yard is dangerous at night, set on different levels and surrounded by thorny trees. Mell begged Oksana to bring the baby back inside and thankfully, she did, with the baby looking unharmed. But Oksana’s erratic behavior continued as she started playing keep-away with the baby. According to Mel, Oksana “started swinging Lucia erratically in her arms, jerking her body from side to side to keep Lucia out of my reach.”
Mel insisted that Oksana was “hysterical” and he feared she was going to give the baby Shaken Baby Syndrome as her “rapid movements were causing Lucia’s little body to be flung from one side to the other, her head shaking violently.”
That’s when Mel decided to take action. Being as descriptive as he could, he explained that he “slapped Oksana one time with an open hand in an attempt to bring her back to reality.” He insists that the slap was not hard, but he’d hoped that it was enough to get her to stop screaming and endangering the baby. Mel went on to say:
“I did not hit Oksana with a closed fist, as she alleges. I did not ever punch her in the face or in the temple or anywhere else, not then or at any other time…While I do not believe I handled the situation as well as I should have, I was worried about the rough way Oksana was shaking and tossing Lucia around. My hand never touched any part of Lucia…There was never any blood on Oksana and none of her teeth were ‘broken,’ although one of the false veneers from a tooth apparently did come off, I did not see that occur at the time.”
If he could prove this, than the story gives him a good defense against his domestic violence charges…but who to believe. It’s a convenient story for him, but then again, so is Oksana’s if we take Mel’s story at face value.
This case isn’t ending anytime soon, we fear.
Who are U more apt to believe: Mel or Oksana?
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