Hollywood star Winona Ryder is speaking out this week to slam her fellow entertainer Mel Gibson, claiming that he once hurled an anti-semitic slur at her while they were at a party in 1995.

Ryder, 48, recounted the story about the 64 year-old Gibson while discussing the anti-semitism she has faced in Hollywood during an interview with the Sunday Times.

“We were at a crowded party with one of my good friends, and Mel Gibson was smoking a cigar,” said Ryder, adding that something then came up about her Jewish faith. That’s when Gibson allegedly said, “You’re not an oven dodger, are you?”

This is an incredibly offensive reference to the way the bodies of Jewish prisoners were incinerated in Nazi death camps during World War II.

Ryder, who was born Winona Laura Horowitz, later added in this same interview that an unnamed studio head allegedly once said that she “looked ‘too Jewish’” to star as a member of a blue-blooded family in an unspecified period film she had been cast in.

Gibson had effectively just worked himself back into Hollywood’s good graces after years of accusations of making anti-semitic remarks. The New York Post reported that the first allegation came back in 2006, when Gibson was pulled over for DUI near Malibu, California. At the time, Gibson allegedly told a police officer, “Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world” and went on to refer to the female cop on the scene as “sugar tits.”

Gibson’s most notorious controversial incident of all was in 2010, when his ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva released tapes that allegedly recorded his racist and misogynistic trades. On one tape, Gibson could be heard saying, “If you get raped by a pack of [N-words], it will be your fault.”

Grigorieva accused Gibson of punching her in the head and face, and he ended up pleading no contest to a charge of misdemeanor battery in 2011. He did not serve any prison time for this.

Gibson, who is known for directing and acting in films like Braveheart, is the son of the late author Hutton Red Gibson, who once infamously proclaimed that the Holocaust is “fiction.”

Despite his lengthy history of these types of controversies, Gibson appears to have worked his way back into the fold in Hollywood in recent years. It remains to be seen if he will stay there now that Ryder’s allegations against him have come to light.

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