<p>The actress who is making her big screen comeback with the Academy Award nominated film 'Black Swan' after almost a decade-long hiatus, said that Gibson made a crude joke about her Jewish roots at a party 15 years ago, in an interview to GQ magazine.<br /><br />"I remember, like, fifteen years ago, I was at one of those big Hollywood parties. And Mel was really drunk. I was with my friend, who's gay. He made a really horrible gay joke. And somehow it came up that I was Jewish. He said something about 'oven dodgers'," recalled the actress.<br /><br />The derogatory term refers to the cremation of Jews in concentration camps during the Holocaust. "I'd never heard that before. It was just this weird, weird moment. I was like, 'He's anti-Semitic and he's homophobic'. No one believed me," she added.<br /><br />Gibson has been at the centre of multiple racist diatribes since then and is now facing charges of domestic violence from ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva. Ryder who was arrested in 2001 for shoplifting, plays a aging prima ballerina in 'Black Swan' who is replaced by the younger star, played by Natalie Portman.</p>
<p>The actress who is making her big screen comeback with the Academy Award nominated film 'Black Swan' after almost a decade-long hiatus, said that Gibson made a crude joke about her Jewish roots at a party 15 years ago, in an interview to GQ magazine.<br /><br />"I remember, like, fifteen years ago, I was at one of those big Hollywood parties. And Mel was really drunk. I was with my friend, who's gay. He made a really horrible gay joke. And somehow it came up that I was Jewish. He said something about 'oven dodgers'," recalled the actress.<br /><br />The derogatory term refers to the cremation of Jews in concentration camps during the Holocaust. "I'd never heard that before. It was just this weird, weird moment. I was like, 'He's anti-Semitic and he's homophobic'. No one believed me," she added.<br /><br />Gibson has been at the centre of multiple racist diatribes since then and is now facing charges of domestic violence from ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva. Ryder who was arrested in 2001 for shoplifting, plays a aging prima ballerina in 'Black Swan' who is replaced by the younger star, played by Natalie Portman.</p>