Mel Gibson Pranks HFPA Member

In an interview published today in the Manila Bulletin, actor Mel Gibson is quoted by Hollywood Foreign Press Association card-carrying member Janet Susan R. Nepales as having said the following:

“We were very poor when I was a kid. I asked my father for a pet that goes everywhere I go, eats everything I eat. So he gave me a tapeworm.”

Cynics might suggest this could explain a lot about the actor’s consumption of tequila as an adult and residual father-son issues.

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