Mel Befriends Britney

Posted Mar 16th 2008 2:50PM by TMZ Staff

TMZ has learned Mel Gibson and his family have very privately befriended Britney Spears to help her through her troubles.

The two were at Romanov Restaurant and Lounge in L.A. last night and according to one report they broke bread together. Our sources say Gibson, his wife Robin and their kids reached out to Britney during her darkest days and began seeing her.

We're told Mel and Robin feel like they know how tough it is to live in a fishbowl and they think they can help the Britster. There have been private dinners in which Mel, Robin and their brood have hooked up with Brit to give her support.

At Romanov's last night, Mel and Brit did not walk in or out together. Looks like Mr. Mel, unlike lots of other celebs, isn't into splashing his good deeds in the media. Nice.

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61. I have a friend who works as a film editor in the "business". She was on location for 8 months in Mexico for filming of his latest film Apocalypto...whatever. She said not only does Mel have a girlfriend, it is a well-known fact and everyone knows. Including his wife. This little girl-toy, who may I mention is in her 20's...same age as his oldest child. So, that CHRISTIAN who is judgmental of everyone is not such a great guy after all! Shame on you MEL!

Posted at 9:37PM on Mar 16th 2008 by Midwestern Girl

62. I think it's really nice that Brit has become friends with the Gibson family, and that they reached out to her when she was in trouble. I think only someone else in the public eye--or the public glare--can know how really hard it is to try and get well and find peace when the whole world is watching..and perhaps even condemning.

Posted at 9:44PM on Mar 16th 2008 by bev

63. We are ALL ONE in the HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD ALMIGHTY +++Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me!!!!!!! Mel and Brit are Gods Children and God Loves and saves all his children, myself included!

Posted at 9:45PM on Mar 16th 2008 by Saint Joseph pray for us ALL!!!!!

64. i find this ridiculous.
so he is finally exposed as the prejudice one
and only because U-tube exposed the video and
he got backed into a corner did he denounce his
Pastor. Then he lies again and say he didnt know
the pastor preached such things and if he knew he
would have left the church. But hours later on
CNN, he says he has no intentions of leaving the church.
well it seems to me that even if he didnt know beore
he sure as hell knows now, and he's STAYING.

NOW he turns around and blames HIllary for HIS
problems? How does HRC get the blame because HE
attended a racist church out of CHOICE??????????????

THAT ALONE IS REASON TO GET THE HELL OUT OF
HIS CAMP, AND I WANT BY DARN CONTRIBUTION BACK.
I SENT IT TO HIM UNDER FALSE PRETENSES. CAN I
SUE HIM OR HIS CAMPAIGN FOR GETTING MY MONEY
UNDER FALSE PRETENSES? THERE OUTTA BE A LAW!

Posted at 10:02PM on Mar 16th 2008 by EX-obama

65. so they're gonna party it up !??

Posted at 10:17PM on Mar 16th 2008 by whatever the fu*# !!

66. #76 EX - Obama : Oh shut up. We know it's you Hillary. By the way, Hillary, are you giving advice to the wife of the ex Governor of New York? Hope she throws his butt out to the curb and doesn't hang on to him like you did with old Horny Bubba.

Posted at 10:20PM on Mar 16th 2008 by A.L.

67. So if you pray and take advice from a racist, does that make you one?

maybe, it is something to think about when you vote............

Posted at 10:22PM on Mar 16th 2008 by bahama sama obama

68. Mel, you and your father are poison to human beings. No matter what you do you shall be going to hell.

Posted at 10:26PM on Mar 16th 2008 by JUDGE

69. You can't write this stuff! I drunken philanderer whose own children are constantly in trouble, is giving advice to a stupid, self-absorbed mentally unstable girl, AND we are to praise this act as though it is the Savior coming to right all wrongs. I say again, you cannot write this stuff.

Posted at 10:30PM on Mar 16th 2008 by outoftowner

70. MEL isn't any beacon of light......
he's unfortunately got a drinking problem {not being judgemental, just practical....Brit doesn't need a drinking buddy.....}, and he's been unfaithful to his wife. I don't think much of him, mainly because of the way he's treated his wife.

Posted at 10:31PM on Mar 16th 2008 by LORRI

71. By the way, I hope Britney recovers from her "marriage" to k-fed----makes me sick how most people seem to have forgot that during her pregnancies he gave her no support....he was out partying all the time and thumbing his nose at her. He treated her like crap. Which is why she DUMPED him after the second baby was born, she didn't waste much time. But it bothered her, since she really had wanted a marriage and had these 2 babies to raise. Makes me SICK that "k-fed" has never taken responsibility for his HUGE part in her break-down. Having 2 very small kids back-to-back and a jerk husband at the same time is enough to make anyone crack.

Posted at 10:32PM on Mar 16th 2008 by LORRI

72. Every celebrity I've seen on TV or read about in the News, is definitely on Britney's side and feel sorry that she is going through this horrible mess. They blame her struggles on the Paparazzi and the deadbeat, money mooching K-Fed, Kaplan and all the other lowlife "managers" and "lawyers". On TV interviews they say that no one in Hollywood has ever had so much scrutiny as Britney. Good for Mel Gibson and his family. They are truly caring people.
As far as some of you nutcases, it's time to stop bashing and trashing Britney. Britney is going to get well. You will have to find someone else to hate.

Posted at 10:48PM on Mar 16th 2008 by J.B.

73. Anyone who is silly enough to be voting for Clinton, and asking for a refund from Senator Obama on TMZ in ebonics, is probably too ignorant to simply go to the DNC or Obama website and simply ask for a refund because we have millions and millions of dollars and supporters - please take your money - Hillary and Bill and their supporters will be building a tent city in Australia after the primaries - I understand that when they do not get their way they throw tantrums and make up stories but in the end they are still LOSERS!

Posted at 11:10PM on Mar 16th 2008 by HRC and WJC are COWARDS

74. Yes, that is exactly the companionship a bi-polar poorly educated substance abuser with a large bank account requires; the resident Hollywood homophobic, racist, drunken, bigot - and let's not forget real Catholic not like the Pope - Mr. Mel "hey cop are you Jewish" Gibson. Britney just got away from those to Arab leaches, and now she has Gibson around? Where is her gaurdian?

Posted at 11:12PM on Mar 16th 2008 by MFM

75. #81 (outoftowner): Dump on Mel all you like but I have never heard one negative thing about his kids. Are you confusing him with someone else? I just don't remember any Barron Hilton-esque antics or anything. Bail me out.

And Amen, Lorri # 83. K-fed is slimier than whale dung. Nothing will change that. He needs to go back with his first Baby Mamma who seems to defend him at every turn. There's a sucker for ya, but he will never find anyone who seems to so blatantly adore him as Shar.

Posted at 11:27PM on Mar 16th 2008 by annie2

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