Oksana Grigorieva tells Larry King: No boozing, yes begging from Mel Gibson

With Oksana Grigorieva's "Larry King Live" interview set to air Wednesday night, we have a few teaser excerpts from her first sit-down since those infamous tapes hit the Hollywood fan. Get ready for the Russian singer to describe ex-boyfriend Mel Gibson choking her and hitting her and brandishing a gun at her in front of her son Sasha, while she held their daughter Lucia, "like a mother protecting her cubs."

So, why did she go back to him after the Jan. 6 fight?  "He begged. He cried," Grigorieva says. "He cried on his knees. What am I supposed to do?"

There was no report, she said, because she was covering up for him.

Also, Larry King really wants to know, "Did liquor usually set it off?"

No, she says. "There was no liquor, not once. He never drank. One time he drank when he was away. That's the only time he drank. I've never ever seen him drinking."

At another point in the chat, after prompting Grigorieva through her story of the fight, King asks again, "Was he drunk?"

"No, he wasn't. He wasn't drunk."

This should be interesting.

Gibson, meanwhile, was spotted silently exiting the Premiere Supper Club on Tuesday in Hollywood, where his son Milo's 21st birthday celebration was going on. Robyn Gibson, whose divorce from Mel is not yet final, was also at the event.

Also, the social service agency Peace Over Violence has disavowed any relationship with Grigorieva after her attorney Dan Horowitz told TMZ on Sunday that she'd be working with that group and another — yes, the other is happening — to help craft legislation to help battered women. (Horowitz would be one of the 42 lawyers who have pitched a tent at Camp Oksana in recent months. You know, the folks who've billed at least a million bucks so far, according to TMZ.)

"We have no connection with Grigorieva, nor do we plan to," the group said Monday on its website.

"I'm guessing it didn't get approved," Horowitz told TMZ on Monday.

Guess not.

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Photo: Oksana Grigorieva at an L.A. event in L.A. on March 4. Credit: Angela Weiss / Getty Images

Comments

[Swinelips]

The only thing worse than a Gold Digger is a Gold Digger with a publicist. Any publicist who would take her money (his - she had none) is a garden variety lowlife.

[karen lee]

I WAS A HUMAN PUNCHING BAG IN THE MID-1970'S FOR MY ALCOHOLIC HUSBAND.
WHEN COPS THOUGHT DV WAS A JOKE. MY HOME LOOKED LIKE VIETNAM -- AFTER A BOMB BLAST! His DRUNKEN RAGES, my endless TRIPS TO HOSPITAL (because Philadelphia cops didn’t think I merited ambulances) my incoherent husband CAUSED ACCIDENTS -- but STILL WASN'T ARRESTED. HE DROPPED ME ONTO THE FLOOR FROM A GURNEY - AS male ORDERLIES LAUGHED.

i LEFT my husband when he pointed a LOADED GUN at my 5-yr son. I left him and did not think about HIM or his money ...ONLY THE CLOTHES of OUR BACKS. My son's welfare and my SANITY was worth it.

LARRY KING, by broadcasting HER LIES ... YOU tried to make HER a "ROLE MODEL" for real abused women? SHAME ON YOU.

REAL VICTIMS cry REPEATEDLY FOR actual HELP – NOT contacting MEDIA OR PR-whoring lawyers! Abused women are always IN FEAR – for their LIVES! Not THINKING about $20-MILLION windfalls or A RECORDING career.

WOULD YOU BELIEVE this GOLD-DIGGER RUSSIAN (WHO ISN'T A CITIZEN of THIS COUNTRY) … DESERVES A PLATFORM FOR HER BLACKMAIL ...off abused women’s BACKS?

[Genna]

What a cheap charade this interview truly was. Horowitz engineered this in an effort to control opinion on what will happen with the DV and extortion cases. Who wants to hear Grigorieva "finally tell my story" for the umpteenth time? And how many more times will her story change? Horowitz and Garbus are clearly worried that their client will be charged with extortion, and that Gibson will not be charged with DV. Given the facts as they continue to be revealed to us, they should be worried.

[Patricia]

That disgusting bully. I never want to see his ugly hateful face on screen ever again.

His fans are bullies too. Nothing would make me happier than to see them disappointed by the death of his film career.

[Kathy]

Dear Larry and Crew,
Your interview with Oksana Wed. night was eye opening.
Two very passionate people, Oksana and Mel.
I feel for Oksana and her children, her nature is to protect them.
As for Mel, his strengh is in movies and I think it would be good for him to produce a movie about someone like himself. Perhaps that could calm the beast in him and let his fans know that the dark side of any violent situation
needs to find it's peace.
I wish them both well, a good life is precious.

Good show Larry
and a Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.

[Just say NO to Mel]

Awarding Mel full custody of a 1 year old child would be absolutely crazy. Anyone that has so little self control as evidenced in the 30+ phone calls from Feb 18-19, should not be a sole caregiver.

[Aleida]

The interview with Larry King, speaks for itself. Pay attention to her answers. She set Mel Gibson up. She knew from the begining that he had a problem and was dealing with it "You don't want to see my other side" Didn't this raise a red flag?He has apologized in the past for inappropriate behavior. His problems were not new to her. She decided to stay with him for convienience, money,publicity,child support, etc. Why did she get pregnant? She did it to continue with her plan. Why did she keep on aswering his calls? Why did she answer to him provoking him with her tone of voice, playing the victim as if she was reading from a script. She should have ended the conversation from the begining. Didn't she decide to leave him because she was afraid for her life and Lucia's. What a good soul trying to help him anyway! How did she spect him to react? "You need medication" When he was angry enough she recorded him. It was all planed. So now she also says that she converted to Catholic. Why? Just to manipulate him into believing that she was the one for him in all aspects, being religion one of them. Was she forced to do this also? Is she practicing her catholic religion as mandated by the church? She voluntarily allowed him to controll her that was part of the plan. Does she attend Sunday Mass?
I don't belive for a moment that this woman is telling the truth. Instead of being an advocate for domestic violence, she should go to therapy. She has many issues including her victim body language. It needs yet to be proven that indeed it was Mel Gibson's voice in all the recordings and that indeed domestic violence took place.

[KnightsLady]

LK LIVE was nothing more than a public masturbatory session for Ms. Grigorieva and her non-court-approve-denied-to-represent-her lawyer. Larry and CNN should be ashamed for giving air time to someone who is under investigation for extortion. So she is claiming DV? Her claims have not been proven in a court of law. The courts are where she should be taking her stories (plural intended). She should be asking the courts and the custody judge (Judge Scott Gordon) for help, not Larry King. She wouldn't have to worry about losing custody if she would put her children first, but it is ALL about her. Mr. Gibson may have some issues - although I think his biggest issue was with her personally - but I think he has proved in the last 6 months that he wants what is best for his daughter. At least with him, she would have a chance to grow up privately and have a normal life like his other children. Her and her lawyers are doing nothing but making a joke out of our justice system. It's sickening.

[Judge Tom Hardaway]

The entire interview she was looking at the table and gave well rehearsed answers. I have a solution to bring out the truth: put her under a polygraph.
She will fail inside of two minutes. She is after money and she was the one who leaked the court documents. Yeah, Mel may have slapped her once or twice but she knew from the very what she was after. MONEY

[Omanda]

I watched that show last night. Oksana looked really greedy and her aim is money. She got pregnant because she wanted Mel's child to bound him with obligations. Now she wants only money. I did not feel any passion for Mel in her voice. And on the first place, what did provocate Mel to behave that way? Of course, her. I don't know if this woman has a soul. She is stupid.

[Kimmy]

Gibson refuses to take responsibility for his abusive, bad behavior. I'm sick of seeing PAID GIBSON ONLINE PR STAFF posting in these forums, about how she is a gold digger, etc.--I'd bet only 10% of pro-Gibson posts are from "real people". The tapes speak for themselves--he threatened to kill her, burn down house, kill himself...Is MEL Stable Mentally? NO!! Do you think he's gonna stay home all day with a baby? Good for Leo DeCaprio for dropping Gibson's film! Oksana never called him a "drunk", which he could easily relapse into--I'm not wanting Mel around any babies. She is a fine mother, he should pay child support on move on--Mel's court moves & Paid PR spin, show a WEAK MAN, still caught in the abusive cycle.

[jesse]

@Kimmy...WOW and you don't think you sound like a "PAID GRIGORIEVA ONLINE PR STAFF" yourself! If Oksana really wanted to protect her child she would keep this "family" matter in house and not on national TV! Why does the rest of the world need to know your business! I'm not saying she lied about the abuse, only Mel and Oksana will ever truley know what happened between them. My thing is why do you say its not about the money and you want to protect your child but yet your actions say differently!? Especially when a Judge orders you to "NOT" speak to the media, and she did anyways, that doesn't sound like a mother who is working in the best interest of her child. If people think she is just money hungry or a gold digger, we only started to think that way when she gave all of us a reason to think it! Just some food for thought!