VIDEO: Larry King Plays Radar's Explosive Mel Tapes For Oksana
Posted on Nov 18, 2010 @ 07:22AM
In her first in-depth TV interview since RadarOnline.com first revealed the bombshell Mel Gibson audio tapes, Oksana Grigorieva sat down Wednesday with Larry King, who played several of the explosive tapes to her to get her reaction.
Watch the clip here on RadarOnline.com
In the interview - which was taped this past weekend - the Russian singer told King she only began taping her conversations with the Braveheart star following a massive argument with Gibson last January 6 at the actor's Malibu home, during which a gun-toting Gibson "actually assaulted me while I was holding the baby in my arms.
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"It was at his house... I ran into my son's bedroom and told him to hide because Mel is crazy, you know, he's getting really violent" she said of the incident. "So, my son was getting ready for bed and he jumped around the bed, hid behind the bed. And I was standing in the middle of the room with the baby like you know, a mother protecting her cubs. And I was standing at the middle of the room holding the baby as Mel proceeded into the room and... struck me twice.
“He hit me and choked me in front of my son and then you know, brandished a gun at me and I left him on the sixth of January,” she said, adding the day after the incident, Gibson was remorseful and apologetic about his actions in hopes of a reconciliation.
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"I was covering up for him and... I didn't report it," Grigorieva said. "I was covering up for him and I believed him. And if somebody's asking you for a chance, you give them the chance."
The calls in which a panting, violent Gibson berated her endlessly were recorded after their split on February 18, according to Grigorieva, who said Gibson "called and called and called me and threatened my life.”
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Grigorieva, who told King she recorded the calls on an iPhone application called voice memos, said the calls began at 8 pm that evening, but she didn't start taping until 11 pm.
"I knew this is not the man who I fell in love with," she said. "This is his illness speaking because this profanity, this anger, this rage, I mean, unforgivable... I wanted my mother to be able to prove that if I'm dead, that this is who did it."
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Grigorieva's attorney Martin Garbus stood behind the legality of recording the calls, saying "if you think that your life is going to be threatened or the person is doing something on phone which has illegal connotations,” they're a way to prove the issue to the authorities.
Grigorieva's been battling Gibson in a legal dogfight, trading accusations of extortion and domestic abuse with the Lethal Weapon star in the ongoing custody case revolving around their baby daughter, Lucia.
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She said it's hard to see him at the hearings, while Garbus added that Gibson's been bringing his acting skills to the courtroom.
"I think Mel's a good actor. And I think that when he's sitting in court, he's acting a different role," the attorney said. "He's acting the role of a concerned father. So the Mel that you hear on the tapes and the Mel that you see is not the person who is in court.”
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Judgement Day Gypsy. Today you reap what you've sown, may karma bring you to your knees (your used to being knealt down anyhow) may your kids end tonite w their 2 RICH, FAMOUS, Star dads, & u spend several yrs in prison b4 the U.S.A. sends you HOME.
Posted Mon, 11/22/2010 - 8:15am
She is going down now. She and her two remaining lawyers are liars and not very good ones either. Anyone following the case knows how much they fabricate.
Posted Mon, 11/22/2010 - 12:20am
I believed her in the beginning, until the tapes were shown to be edited and the baby photo and her black eye photo came out. She was coming across as trying to destroy Mel and it made me go...hmmmm. She sunk her own ship by her actions.
Posted Fri, 11/19/2010 - 10:28am
She's losing big time in court, so they go on a smear campaign to try and sway public opinion. Problem is, Oksana has no credibility left. In a he said, she said, with doctored tapes, doctored photos, it's not looking good for her.
Posted Fri, 11/19/2010 - 10:25am
The boy was about going to sleep but the caring mother run into his room to wake him up to get him as a witness. Why she always holds her baby in her arms when she argues with Gibson. What's the kind of mother is she? Is there a psychiatrist in LA?
Posted Fri, 11/19/2010 - 2:32am
She didn't call the police and she taped Mel because:I wanted my mother to be able to prove that if I'm dead, that this is who did it." This is the answer to all the questions for everyone whose IQ is more than a cat's. That speaks for itself.
Posted Fri, 11/19/2010 - 12:56am
Things probably escalated as the relationship grew. Abuse doensn't happen overnight. He wanted to control how she dressed, how she looked and who she looked at. That's abuse and control. He blew a gasket...admit it.
Posted Thu, 11/18/2010 - 9:47pm
I mean for Mel to admit it, get help and move on. It's just turning nasty.
Posted Thu, 11/18/2010 - 9:49pm
Read the UK article from May 2009 about how her exhusband does not want anything to do with her and other gems. The gal is a walking button pushing time bomb.
Posted Fri, 11/19/2010 - 10:43am
I can't stop crying hearing: 'I wanted my mother to be able to prove that if I'm dead, that this is who did it."That was a real nightmare on Elm Street. Thank you Oksana for that, now everyone can see you are not only a gold digger but also an idiot.
Posted Thu, 11/18/2010 - 7:31pm