GIBSON’S FRANTIC DRUGSTORE DASH TO SAVE DAUGHTER
MEL GIBSON has come clean about another past infraction - he once inadver= tently attacked an old lady and an injured man in an Australian drugstore= ..
The actor admits he "wrecked the place" in Coogee, near Sydney as he da= shed from the pay kiosk to the door in an effort to stop his 21-month-old= daughter walking into traffic outside.
The incident took place 27 years ago, but Gibson still shudders as he r= ecalls the moment he realised just how far he’d go to protect his kids.
The Braveheart star tells WENN, "I went to the pharmacy to buy some for= mula for my newly-born twins; they’re now 27. I brought my 21 month old t= o the pharmacy with me because my wife was at home occupied with twins.
"We had a nurse from New Zealand at the time who used to help out durin= g the day. We’re in the pharmacy and I’m buying formula and I take my eye= s off the child for a second and the next thing I look up and I see my ch= ild standing about 25 yards away on the edge of a curb and the nurse is a= t a bus stop on the other side with traffic blowing in front of her.
"My daughter is trying to go over to her and say ‘Hi.’ I’m thinking, ‘O= K, 25 yards and not much time to get the kid.’ "So, needless to say, there was a man with broken ribs and and an old l= ady with a footprint on her face because I completely wrecked the place t= o get to the kid. I broke everything and ran through things and lifted th= ings and threw things out of the way to pluck her out before she got stru= ck by a car.
"I had to apologise to all those people afterwards and they didn’t unde= rstand. They get very angry, of course, because I knocked an old lady ove= r."
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