Mel Gibson’s defence of Tiger Woods

Mel Gibson, 54, drew on his own wrongdoings when he came out in defence of beleaguered golfer Tiger Woods.

Gibson in an interview with the UK Daily Mail, said: “I feel sorry for Tiger Woods. Why are we talking about this when we’re sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan? You’ve got this history-changing event going on and we’re talking about Tiger’s private life and golf injuries. He’s being used as a diversion and it just drives me crazy. You come out savaged. I just think, ‘Who cares?’”

The allegations and revelations of the champion golfer’s multiple infidelities to his wife has sunk his squeaky-clean image as Woods battles to regroup his personal life. He has suspended his golf career indefinitely.

Gibson, who last year filed for divorce from Robyn Moore, the mother of his seven children, and had an eighth child with girlfriend of three-plus years, Oksana Grigorieva, said: “Nobody is without sin. You have to try to make amends if you can. You have to shut up and move on and not whine about it. And you have to deal with it like a man. I’m to blame [for the breakdown], if you’re inclined to judge. And that’s it. Whatever fallout comes from it, be it fair or unfair, you’ve just got to accept your own culpability. The minute you start whining, it’s ridiculous.”