A misleading YouTube video claimed that Mel Gibson had revealed Ashton Kutcher was a hidden handler for Hollywood elites. However, the clip never provided evidence that Gibson had publicly remarked about Kutcher’s controversy involving Masterson, nor did it provide any proof of Gibson calling Kutcher a “handler” who had “betrayed us.”
On September 16, 2023, a video allegedly by actor Mel Gibson exposing actor Ashton Kutcher as a “hidden hander” for Hollywood elites was posted on the fictitious celebrity gossip YouTube channel Just In (@JustInCeleb).
Just over 32,000 people watched the video on YouTube. But the video truly took off after being reposted on TikTok, where it received more than 640,000 views.
The “controversy” referenced in the video was that it had been revealed that Kutcher and his wife, actor Mila Kunis, had written character letters seeking leniency for convicted rapist and former “That ’70s Show” co-star Danny Masterson. On Sept. 9, Kutcher and Kunis posted an apology video on Instagram.
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Despite all, it turned out that the YouTube video’s title and thumbnail image were both false. The video tape never had any indication that Gibson had made comments regarding Kutcher’s Masterson controversy in public, nor did it have any evidence that Gibson had referred to Kutcher as a “handler” who had “betrayed us.”
The video simply showed old, out-of-context clips of Gibson remarking about a variety of different subjects, none of which had anything to do with Kutcher.
The clip also misleadingly implied that Gibson had a hand in directing “Sound of Freedom,” a film centered on child sex trafficking. However, the movie was was written and directed by Alejandro Monteverde, not Gibson.
