The sheriff’s deputy who arrested Mel Gibson for drunken driving six months ago says his superiors have harassed him ever since a report detailing the star’s anti-Semitic tirade was leaked to a celebrity news Web site.

Deputy James Mee was transferred to another assignment, interrogated for several hours, and investigators seized a computer and phone records during a search of his home, his attorney told the Los Angeles Times for its Thursday editions.

"His life and career would be a lot different had he not made that arrest," attorney Richard Shinee said.

Neal Tyler, a division chief who oversees the sheriff’s office where Gibson was booked, denied that Mee was singled out and said he didn’t know of any problems with Mee’s treatment.

He declined to discuss Mee’s specific complaints because of confidentiality rules, but he said, "I disagree with the assessment that personnel in the department or at the station have been relating to him or supervising him in an unfair manner."

Mee arrested Gibson July 29 in Malibu on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol. An arrest report signed by Mee and posted on the celebrity news Web site TMZ said Gibson was belligerent and quoted him as saying: "The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world."

The actor-director later apologized to the Jewish community and pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of drunken driving.

After Gibson’s much-publicized arrest, investigations were opened into whether Gibson received preferential treatment, and into who leaked Mee’s report.

"My client has denied he gave the report to anyone," Shinee said.

Pictured above is Mel Gibson on the set of the film Apocalypto.

In the interview, the actor/director continues to apologize for his tequila-inspired roadside oration, in which he made anti-Semitic and sexually abusive remarks to Malibu police. Gibson (50) swears he’s rehabilitated and no longer has anti-Jewish sentiments or visions of “sugart-ts” dancing in his head.

"I got a skinful and mouthed off which is not coming from a good place, but I’m moving on from that," says Gibson.“Everybody goofs, everybody screws up and I tell ya, if you ask everybody in the world to raise their hand if they never said something vicious, something that they regretted or something stupid, there wouldn’t be many people that wouldn’t be able to raise their hands."

However, at the same time, the actor views that experience "as a gift to me, because it’s made me really sort of scratch my head and focus on a couple of things that I needed to."

A delicious new scandal involving Mel Gibson.

Painter Carmel Sloane claims the millionaire actor made her mum pregnant on a mattress in the back of his car before he was famous 30 YEARS ago.

And now her 10-year-old son Jordan bears a striking resemblance to his secret GRANDAD.

Carmel, 29, said: "I’m not doing it for his money. I just want to meet the man I’ve always known was my dad – and for him to get to know his grandson."

The paternity suit is the latest blow for the Braveheart star. Earlier this year he was arrested for drink-driving and launched an anti-Jewish tirade against cops.

Legal papers will be served on Gibson, 50, this week and he will either have to admit he’s the father or have a swab taken from inside his mouth for DNA testing.

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All this mockery of Mel Gibson who made racial remarks while intoxicated, and yet Rosie O’Donnell is given a pass despite her racist mockery of Chinese on The View. Mel’s movie still made number 1 with a much weaker opening then Passion of the Christ.

Maybe I should put this in language that Rosie can understand.

Fat headed egotistical ching chong queer queer open lesbian queer gay mocking Chinese homo gay on The View lesbo triangle trolling is not funny gay rainbow Chinese mockery OFFENSIVE and RACIST! You hippo hippo hypocrite!

The fact that Barbara Walters allowed this to pass without even a word, makes her a racist as well. No wonder Lisa Ling left The Racist View.

The backlash begins…

…and the Gay community continues to sit in silence other than to remain supportive of Rosie, rather than condemning her non-tolerant, non-inclusive, racist tirade on The View. Barbara Walters needs to FIRE ROSIE NOW!

Note to Mel Gibson and Michael Richards, there’s a new way to prove that you are cool with the Jews. A new kosher steak house, Prime Grill Beverly Hills, has opened up in L.A. on Rodeo Drive, and so far Colin Farrell, Nicole Richie and Carmen Electra have stopped by to taste the fare. A rep for the restaurant says, "We’ve extended invitations to the ever so faithful Jew-loving celebrities such as Richards and Gibson. Reps for both have not yet responded to the invitation."