Mel Gibson was sober when he made hate-fueled rants

Since Mel Gibson has had a problem with alcohol in the past, and because he sounded like a rage-filled drunk, everyone (including Whoopi Goldberg) kinda assumed that Mel Gibson was running on a quart of whiskey when he called Oksana up in a hate-fueled rage.

But now sources close to Mel, and even Oskana’s camp say Mel has hasn’t touched the sauce for over 3 years, so he was probably sober during those disturbing phone calls.

Wow! Somehow this situation got even worse. At least some of the edge (minuscule, but still) of Mel’s rants could have been explained by liquor or drugs, but if he was stone-cold sober, that’s a whole different story, and a whole different monster.

Of course, just because he’s been sober for three years doesn’t mean he didn’t fall off the wagon.

TMZ has a source saying that the day of the infamous phone calls from hell, Mel and Oksana attended a ceremony in their backyard where they planted the placenta of their daughter Lucia in the ground. It’s an Australian tradition Mel has done for all of his eight children, but things took a wild turn when Oskana laughed at something the gardener said and Mel flew into a jealous rage.