Fans of Hollywood star Mel Gibson are in shock today after it was revealed that he was hospitalized for coronavirus back in April.

This was confirmed by the 64 year-old Braveheart star’s rep, who added that he has since thankfully made a full recovery.

“He tested positive in April and spent a week in the hospital,” the rep said in a statement, according to People magazine. “He was treated with the drug Remdesivir, while in the hospital, and has tested negative numerous times since then as well as positive for the antibodies.”

This news comes after a difficult few weeks for Gibson, as alleged past anti-semitic remarks he made to actress Winona Ryder back in the 1990s were brought up by her again.

“We were at a crowded party with one of my good friends, and Mel Gibson was smoking a cigar, and we’re all talking and he said to my friend, who’s gay, ‘Oh wait, am I gonna get AIDS?’ And then something came up about Jews, and he said, ‘You’re not an oven dodger, are you?’” Ryder told The Sunday Times. “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!”

Gibson, however, vehemently denied this claim.

“This is 100% untrue,” his rep told TooFab. “She lied about it over a decade ago, when she talked to the press, and she’s lying about it now. Also, she lied about him trying to apologize to her back then. He did reach out to her, many years ago, to confront her about her lies and she refused to address it with him.”

Gibson also is not the only Hollywood star to test positive for COVID-19. Two of the first public figures to come down with the virus were Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson. Hanks recently told The Guardian that the symptoms that he and his wife suffered were “odd” given the fact that the two of them “had very different reactions.”

“My wife lost her sense of taste and smell, she had severe nausea, she had a much higher fever than I did,” Hanks, 64, recalled. “I just had crippling body aches, I was very fatigued all the time and I couldn’t concentrate on anything for more than about 12 minutes.”

This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com and is used by permission.

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