MEL GIBSON

The latest ugly remarks that this gifted actor- director has made are shocking. Mel Gibson's recent behavior makes it difficult to support him in any way.

Why is Gibson continuing to ruin his reputation, raving and ranting, uninhibitedly, blatantly attacking Oksana Grigorieva, who gave birth to their daughter five months ago?

"They just drifted apart," a friend told the "Daily News." The friend said they're still friends and they'll both raise Lucia together.

While Gibson is in Mexico filming "How I Spent My Summer Vacation," Oksana is said to be busy working on her music career.

Though the couple said they didn't plan to get married, Oksana, 39, told the U.K. edition of Glamour that she wouldn't mind becoming Mrs. Gibson. "But right now we're just so happy to be having this child together," she said in November.

Gibson, 54, is also the father of seven children with his former wife Robyn, whom he divorced last year after 30 years of marriage. Grigorieva has a son, Alexander, with her former boyfriend, actor Timothy Dalton.