LOS ANGELES: Actor-filmmaker Mel Gibson has expressed gratitude to Hollywood star Robert Downey Jr. for having his back after his 2006 arrest and anti-Semitic remarks.
The actor talked about the support he received from the 'Oppenheimer' star during an interview and said: “One time, I got into a bit of a sticky situation where it kind of ended my career.”
Gibson recalled in an Esquire interview: “I was drunk in the back of a police car, and I said some stupid shit, and all of a sudden, I was blacklisted. I’m the poster boy for canceled.”
“A couple of years into that, he invited me to some kind of award he was getting -- we always had this kind of seesaw thing, where if he was on the wagon, I was falling off, and if I was on the wagon, he was falling off.”
The actor added: “So I was pretty much nonexistent in Hollywood at the time, and he stood up and spoke for me. It was a bold, generous, and kind gesture. I loved him for that, ” reports deadline.com.
Actress Jodie Foster also talked about how she pulled him aside during the filming of 1995’s 'Home for the Holidays' to talk to him amid his addiction struggles.