Mel Gibson swears at TV reporter

Reuters

BAD LANGUAGE: Mel Gibson has been caught calling a reporter an "asshole" during an on-air interview.

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Mel Gibson has been caught out again, swearing at a TV reporter when he thought his interview had gone off-air.

Gibson, known for a reportedly drunken, anti-semitic tirade at a traffic cop during a much publicised incident in 2006, was doing a live interview with Dean Richards from Chicago-based network WGN TV to promote his new film Edge of Darkness when it took a turn for the worse.

The interview got awkward when Gibson was asked: "Do you feel like you're a different person, maybe a better person, than you were, five years ago? You've been through a lot of ups and downs."

"Hey, it's a real rollercoaster ride," Gibson replied. "Time teaches and you learn as you go ... I think I've done all the necessary mea culpas."

When Richards quizzed him about his "drinking problems" and the "anti-semitic rant" Gibson told the reporter to get over it.

"That's almost four years ago dude, I've moved on. I guess you haven't."

When he thought the interview was over, Gibson took a swig from a coffee cup, muttered the word, "Asshole" and sniffed loudly.

* Watch footage of the interview below:

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