telephone rant. >> you like a [ bleep ] on heat and if you get raped by a pack of [ bleep ] it will be your fault, all right, because you provoked it. >> reporter: angry slurs at his baby's momma, oksana, but those leaked rants became the least of gibson's concerns as the actor faced possible domestic violence charges stemming from an altercation with oksana early last year, a drastic departure from the film star once known best as a family man and a person of passionate faith. >> people are wondering, was the mel we knew and loved, was that really mel gibson, or is this mel gibson? >> reporter: mel gibson first made noise on january 3rd, 1956. his birth announcement in the local paper reads, a son to mr. and mrs. hutton gibson of verplank. that's this small river town in upstate new york where the family lived for a few years in this modest home.