Winona: I Saw Drunk Mel Gibson Rip on Gays, Jews

GQ admits, right off the bat, to having an eternal crush on Winona Ryder. But there's one person out there who probably doesn't echo that sentiment: Mel Gibson. In an interview with Alex Pappademas, the 39-year-old actress tells the tale of a 15-year-old encounter with Mel at a Hollywood party: "He was really drunk. I was with my friend, who's gay. He made a really horrible gay joke. And somehow it came up that I was Jewish. He said something about 'oven dodgers,' but I didn't get it. I'd never heard that before. I was like, 'He's anti-Semitic and he's homophobic.' No one believed me!"

More from the interview:

• On her 10-minute role as the ballerina Natalie Portman replaces in the Black Swan: "I thought it was a cool parallel. Being replaced by the young thing. It's harder to find good roles, and suddenly there's new girls. I'm at that age I've been warned my whole life about."

• On that shoplifting incident: "I'm sort of staggered by the way she blows by the shoplifting thing without talking about it," writes Pappademas.

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