His press officer confirms it: Mel Gibson is not preparing a documentary on child trafficking, contrary to the rumor circulating on social networks. “There will be a lot of people taking down the flag of Ukraine when Mel Gibson releases his four-part documentary on child sex trafficking,” he said. tweeted Monday former senator Yves Pozzo di Borgo, in a message relayed more than 2,000 times. A few days earlier, it was Karl Zero who shared a trailer for the documentary HiddenTruth (“The Hidden Truth”) on YouTube. The presenter explained that Mel Gibson “partnered with Tim Ballard” for a series of four documentaries.
Tim Ballard is an American who set up an NGO to fight human trafficking. His story is transcribed in a film, sound of freedom (“The sound of freedom”), which is released this Tuesday in the United States.
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The rumor of a participation of Mel Gibson appeared on social media in the United States a month ago. It was denied on June 7 by Alan Nierob, the actor’s press officer, with our colleagues from the Associated press agency. Mel Gibson “doesn’t work on any documentaries”, has developped Alan Nirob. Nor did he “fund” any documentaries, the spokesperson added.
As AP notes, the rumor seems to have started with an intervention by Tim Ballard in January. The American then gave a lectureduring which he claimed that Mel Gibson “did the final cut of sound of freedom “. He also explains that the actor called him to alert him about the situation of children in Ukraine. Tim Ballard adds that Mel Gibson helped him prepare a documentary on child trafficking caused by the war in Ukraine.
He remains evasive about the type of help the actor would have provided, suggesting that this support could be financial. “I said to Mel: you have to help me, it’s going to be expensive. I won’t ask you for a direct donation, but can you help me film all this? Filming what is happening so that people understand and support us. He said: no problem. He helped us settle in and start filming. Four months later, what I thought might be a Ukrainian documentary will be a four-part documentary that is almost finished. »
Mel Gibson is not one of the producers of this series of documentaries, held to deny Tim Ballard on June 8, after the claim spread on Twitter.
Mel Gibson regularly comes back to conspiracy theories or QAnon. Two years ago, internet users had already asserted without evidence that he was about prepare a documentary on the Rothschilds. Several fake quotes, including one that allegedly has him exposing a “pedophile ring” in Hollywood, are regularly shared on line. Without the actor having ever publicly pronounced these words.