Gibson in rehab after alleged tirade

An official police report on Mel Gibson’s arrest on drink-driving charges substantiates allegations that he made anti-Semitic remarks and threatened a sheriff’s deputy, a US law enforcement official said tonight.

Meanwhile, CNN reported that the actor had entered rehab.

“He has entered into an ongoing program of recovery,” the network quoted Gibson’s publicist Alan Nierob as saying tonight.

The law enforcement official said the police report, which has been sent to prosecutors, claims the Hollywood star made disparaging comments about Jews.

The actor released a statement on Saturday apologising for making “despicable” comments to deputies when he was arrested in Malibu in the early hours of Saturday.

Gibson also said he had fought alcoholism for all of his adult life and “profoundly regretted” his “horrific relapse“.

His statement came after entertainment news website TMZ posted what it said were four pages of an arrest report in which Gibson was alleged to have said: “The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.”

Then, according to the documents, he asked a sheriff’s deputy if he was a Jew.

TMZ reported that Deputy James Mee was then ordered to write another report, leaving out the alleged incendiary comments.

That was denied today by the Los Angeles County sheriff’s department.