Mel Gibson speaks up

Speaking for the first time about his arrest and anti-Semitic comments, Mel Gibson characterized his remarks as the "stupid rambling of a drunkard" in an interview with Diane Sawyer for Good Morning America.

"The last thing I want to be is that kind of monster," Gibson said. The discussion is set to air Thursday and Friday.

"What I need to do is to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them if they had any heart wounds from something I may have said," Gibson says.

Sawyer will ask Gibson about alcoholism and drunk driving in Thursday's portion of the GMA interview. On Friday, she will ask him about his anti-Semitic remarks.

People