VIDEO: Oksana On Mel - 'I Thought He Would Kill Me'
Oct. 6 2010, Published 12:30 p.m. ET
In wake of the now infamous Mel Gibson tapes - exclusively revealed by Breaking Celebrity News this past summer - Gibson's former lady love Oksana Grigorieva tells People magazine in a brand new interview that she thought The Braveheart star would kill her.
Watch the video here on Breaking Celebrity News
The magazine's deputy managing editor Peter Castro appeared on The Today Show Wednesday to discuss his five hour visit with Oksana, whom he said is “just numb to the situation now.”
Grigorieva said that "everything changed" on January 6, 2010, according to Castro, when Gibson flew into a rage, punched her in the mouth, accidentally hit the baby and pulled a gun on her at the couple's Malibu mansion.
Castro said that Grigorieva told him that she didn't contact police because she feared humiliating Gibson could provoke him to "kill her," and that "she was so shaken that calling the police was not the first thing on her mind."
Castro said that Grigorieva said that Gibson convincingly apologized to her, but flew off the handle six weeks later, at which point she realized the relationship was