Mel Gibson has said that renewed allegations of anti-Semitic comments levelled against him by actress Winona Ryder are “100% untrue”.
In a recent interview with the Sunday Times, Ryder claimed that the Braveheart star had asked her if she was an “oven dodger” at a party around 25 years ago, in an apparent reference to her Jewish background.
She told the publication: “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?’” The Stranger Things star, 48, also said Gibson, 64, had tried to apologise to her at a later date.
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