Oscar-winning director and actor Mel Gibson has apologized for driving while drunk and for his "belligerent behavior" toward the deputy sheriffs who arrested him.
"I acted like a person completely out of control when I was arrested, and said things that I do not believe to be true and which are despicable," he said in a statement issued by his publicist.
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Gibson (50), was arrested in the early hours of Friday morning for speeding along the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, the beach town north of Los Angeles.
"I am deeply ashamed of everything I said, and I apologize to anyone who I have offended," he said. He did not explain the offensive comments, and a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department also declined to comment on Gibson's behavior when arrested.
Gibson whose 2004 film The Passion of the Christwas a smash hit, said he has "battled with the disease of alcoholism for all of my adult life and profoundly regret my horrific relapse."