Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson was born January 3, 1956 in Peekskill, New York, USA, as the sixth of eleven children of Hutton Gibson, a railroad brakeman, and Anne Patricia (Reilly) Gibson (who died in December of 1990). His mother was Irish, from County Longford, while his American-born father is of mostly Irish descent. Mel and his family moved to Australia in the late 1960s
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[–] EyeoftheChampion [S] ago
He has 10 kids of his own too and a hot young new girlfriend.
[–] watitdew 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
Catholicism did a lot of good. Dad would have had 4 siblings but one died young.
But Mel's dad supported that on a railroad brakeman's salary. How the fuck does that work out today.