{"id":381474,"date":"2025-12-31T00:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/381474\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T00:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:25:09","slug":"mel-gibson-splits-from-rosalind-ross-after-nine-year-relationship-as-pair-issue-joint-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/381474\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel Gibson splits from Rosalind Ross after nine year relationship as pair issue joint statement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mel Gibson and Rosalind Ross have confirmed their nine-year relationship has come to an end.<\/p>\n

The 69-year-old actor-director and the 35-year-old screenwriter actually parted ways approximately twelve months ago, though the separation has only now been made public.<\/p>\n

In a joint statement provided exclusively to People, the former couple said: “Although it’s sad to end this chapter in our lives, we are blessed with a beautiful son and will continue to be the best parents possible.”<\/p>\n

Their eight-year-old son Lars remains the priority for both Mr Gibson and Ms Ross as they navigate their new circumstances.<\/p>\n

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Mel Gibson and Rosalind Ross in 2016<\/p>\n

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The pair have committed to working together as co-parents despite the breakdown of their romantic partnership.<\/p>\n

The announcement brings to a close a relationship that began when the couple were introduced by mutual acquaintances back in 2014, with romance blossoming shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n

Ms Ross was just 23 when she first encountered Gibson, who was 58 at the time. She had been brought on board by his production company to collaborate on a screenplay.<\/p>\n

The pair were reportedly introduced through shared friends, and Mr Gibson is said to have taken her on a lavish trip to Costa Rica not long after their initial meeting.<\/p>\n

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Mel Gibson and Rosalind Ross confirmed on Tuesday, December 30, they had ended their relationship<\/p>\n

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Beyond her work in film, Ms Ross boasts an impressive athletic pedigree. She claimed gold at the 2010 World Equestrian Games as a competitive horse rider.<\/p>\n

Her academic background includes studying literature at Emerson College, and she has since built a notable career behind the camera. <\/p>\n

Her credits include work on the television series Matador, while she both wrote and directed the 2022 feature Father Stu, which starred Mark Wahlberg alongside Gibson.<\/p>\n

Their son Lars arrived in January 2017, his birth coinciding with a significant moment in Mr Gibson’s career. <\/p>\n

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Mel Gibson and Rosalind Ross were together for 12 years<\/p>\n

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The baby was born just days before the filmmaker learned he had secured a Best Director nomination at the Academy Awards for his war drama Hacksaw Ridge.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on that timing, Mr Gibson remarked: “What could be more exciting than listening to the nominations being announced while holding my newborn son.”<\/p>\n

Lars is Mr Gibson’s youngest child. In September 2024, both he and his half-sister Lucia, now 16, accompanied their father to the Los Angeles premiere of his film Monster Summer.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the family faced upheaval when the couple’s Malibu residence was destroyed in the devastating Los Angeles wildfires in January 2025.<\/p>\n

Mr Gibson has been married once before, to Robyn Moore, with whom he shares seven children: daughter Hannah and sons Christian, Edward, William, Louis, Milo and Thomas. That marriage lasted from 1980 until 2011.<\/p>\n

Between his marriage ending and meeting Ms Ross, Mr Gibson was involved with Russian singer and pianist Oksana Grigorieva from 2007 to 2010. The pair have a daughter, Lucia, who was born in 2009.<\/p>\n

That relationship ended acrimoniously, with Mr Gibson pleading no contest to a misdemeanor domestic violence charge in 2011. He received three years’ probation, counselling and community service.<\/p>\n

Professionally, Mr Gibson continues to work on The Resurrection of the Christ, his long-awaited sequel to the 2004 biblical epic The Passion of the Christ. The film will be released in two parts, with the first scheduled for Good Friday 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mel Gibson and Rosalind Ross have confirmed their nine-year relationship has come to an end. The 69-year-old actor-director…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,480,134,1689],"class_list":{"0":"post-381474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-celebrity","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-film"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}