Mel Gibson’s Ex Tells Larry King She Feared She Wouldn’t ‘Live Through The Night’

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by Mark Joyella | 10:15 am, November 18th, 2010

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Talking to CNN’s Larry King in an interview aired Wednesday night, Oksana Grigorieva said she recorded the infamous phone call with her ex, Mel Gibson, because she thought he was going to kill her, and she wanted to leave evidence behind for her mother, “to be able to prove that if I’m dead that this is who did it.”

In the interview, Grigorieva’s first, lawyer Martin Garbus calls Gibson’s claims that Grigorieva released the phone calls as part of an extortion attempt “a phony charge.”

Another surprise in the King interview–Grigorieva says most of the worst incidents, including her charges of repeated domestic abuse–never involved the star being drunk. “There was no liquor, not once. He never drunk.”

Here’s King’s questioning on how those phone calls ended up on tape, from CNN:

GRIGORIEVA: He started to call me. He called and called and called me and threatened my life.

KING: And you taped him?

GRIGORIEVA: No. I did not tape him until about 11:00 at night. He started to called me from 8:00. I called his assistant. I was trying to get the number of his psychologist to help him out. I was still trying desperately to help him out. I knew this is not the man who I fell in love with. This is his illness speaking because this profanity, this anger, this rage, I mean, unforgivable.

KING: So why, Oksana, did you tape him?

GRIGORIEVA: For few reasons, I started taping him around 11:00 because I thought I’m actually not going to live for the night. I’m actually not going to live for the night and nobody…

KING: He’s going to come over and kill you.

GRIGORIEVA: Yes, that’s what he said in those tapes. If you heard them without any interruption…

KING: They were evident.

GRIGORIEVA: Yes. I mean, I have none edited and it’s pretty frightening and it’s completely unforgivable.

KING: So, you were taping him and you thought that you would be killed and wanted to world to hear this?

GRIGORIEVA: I wanted my mother to be able to prove that if I’m dead that this is who did it. Because she already witnessed that too, you know, these certain violence back in December that he showed quite a bit of a violence. But another, another reason was, it’s very strange. The victims, I think they’re really decent human beings, because they’re trying to — they cover up perpetrators. They’re trying to help them. In the back of my mind, I thought, if I don’t get killed tonight, then I’d like him to hear what he sounds like…

Grigorieva’s claim that she made the recording–without Gibson’s knowledge–in fear of her life would address the question of whether the recordings violated California law. As Mediaite founder and NBC Chief Legal Analyst Dan Abrams said in an interview on the Today Show back in July, the tapes could be admissible in court if Grigorieva believed her life was in imminent danger.

Here’s a clip:

CNN, larry king, Mel Gibson, Oksana Grigorieva

skyfet

Go away! the American people still prefer Mel by far. Remember the Christ film! and brave heart, freedommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
pakattak

skyfet said:
Go away! the American people still prefer Mel by far. Remember the Christ film! and brave heart, freedommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I can like his films, but I don’t have to like the person.

I seriously think Gibson jumped off the deep end into insanity.
skyfet

@pakattak
Blame the alcohol. Kids that’s why you should stay away from alcohol, get it?
Just4thefax

Fact: All Californian’s are 502′s at some time or another.
Harry Flashman

I see this gold digging opportunist has been granted yet another forum to bash Gibson.

Look, I have no doubt that Gibson is an ass and may or may not have done some of what she said, at least to some degree, but let’s put things into perspective here. As bad as what he may have done is, does it really justify all the tsk-tsking its getting? There are thousands of cases every day that go way WAY beyond this. Didn’t some rapper beat his popstar girrfriend bloody a while back – it got passing attention but nothing like the media is giving Gibson. I wonder why?

Reallly, why bother waiting to see if Gibson is convicted in court when we can all convict him just by listening to someone who has much to gain by playing the victim as loudly and as often as she can?

He may be an ass, but she’s a parasite.
pakattak

Harry Flashman said:
I see this gold digging opportunist has been granted yet another forum to bash Gibson.

Look, I have no doubt that Gibson is an ass and may or may not have done some of what she said, at least to some degree, but let’s put things into perspective here. As bad as what he may have done is, does it really justify all the tsk-tsking its getting? There are thousands of cases every day that go way WAY beyond this. Didn’t some rapper beat his popstar girrfriend bloody a while back – it got passing attention but nothing like the media is giving Gibson. I wonder why?

Reallly, why bother waiting to see if Gibson is convicted in court when we can all convict him just by listening to someone who has much to gain by playing the victim as loudly and as often as she can?

He may be an ass, but she’s a parasite.

If you’re talking about the whole Chris Brown/Rhianna thing, that got much more attention and ‘tsk-tsking’ as Gibson’s little episode did.

And the whole fixation on Celebrities and the bad things they do is just plain stupid, in my opinion. Blame the media.
alamo2

Harry Flashman said:
I see this gold digging opportunist has been granted yet another forum to bash Gibson. Look, I have no doubt that Gibson is an ass and may or may not have done some of what she said, at least to some degree, but let’s put things into perspective here. As bad as what he may have done is, does it really justify all the tsk-tsking its getting? There are thousands of cases every day that go way WAY beyond this. Didn’t some rapper beat his popstar girrfriend bloody a while back – it got passing attention but nothing like the media is giving Gibson. I wonder why? Reallly, why bother waiting to see if Gibson is convicted in court when we can all convict him just by listening to someone who has much to gain by playing the victim as loudly and as often as she can? He may be an ass, but she’s a parasite.

And where did you get your Ph.D. in psychology?
tws258

alamo2 said:
And where did you get your Ph.D. in psychology?

For someone who’s raison d’être seems appears to be to remind others about all thing manners , yours seem to be spotty at best. You may want to ask TRRK to introduce you to the the Pantyshields . I understand the get on quite well together.
cotchie1967

I too Gibson is an ass, but I smell a shakedown/money grab.
alamo2

tws258 said:
For someone who’s raison d’être seems appears to be to remind others about all thing manners , yours seem to be spotty at best. You may want to ask TRRK to introduce you to the the Pantyshields . I understand the get on quite well together.

You might want to try to construct a sentence that is understood by others.
CAconservative

Well of course her life was in imminent danger. And I’ll bet the more money he has, the more imminent that danger will rise to. I can see deep emotional, life long ( in direct proportion to the settlement) scars this poor women will have to endure.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jon-Martin/43100610 Jon Martin

Even if he does have money, if he did this screw him. No one should defend this. He punched her while she was holding a baby.
tws258

alamo2 said:
You might want to try to construct a sentence that is understood by others.

It would seem that it was understood by by several people . You may want skip the introduction to the Pantyshields , and instead swing by Maxi’s pad .
libra blue

I don’t like Mel Gibson, but nobody forced this gold digging bimbo to bang someone else’s husband. She made her choices and now she has to live with them.

She will be paid very handsomely for her “trouble”.
Nahu Tuk

Oh, the DRAMA!!!
Nahu Tuk

I respect Mr. Gibson’s talent but his is a troubled soul. I hope he straightens out his life and finds happiness. It wouldn’t hurt to start with his righting all his wrongs…redemption through repentance. (Been there, done that.)