Mel Gibson’s daughter, Lucia Gibson, has rarely been seen publicly since her birth in October 2009. In November 2023, though, she was photographed on an outing with her mom, Oksana Grigorieva. The couple was grocery shopping at Erewhon Market in Los Angeles, California, and the teen, dressed casually in a lilac hoodie, towered above her mom.
It seems that poor Lucia is only photographed when visiting supermarkets, as she was last seen leaving Ralph’s grocery store in Malibu with her dad in June 2022. Lucia is one of Mel’s nine kids that Mel has from three different relationships. Through no fault of her own, Lucia’s early years were mired in scandal and controversy as Mel and Grigorieva duked it out in a nasty and contentious custody battle. It took nearly two years for the couple to call a truce. In August 2011, the Associated Press reported that Gibson agreed to dole out $750,000 to Grigorieva, set up a trust fund for Lucia, and continue payments on the mansion he purchased for them, to be sold for their daughter’s benefit when she turned 18.
Mel isn’t big on issuing mea culpas. Still, he admitted to the Sunday Times in 2016 that he hasn’t always been the best dad possible. “As a parent, everybody screws up,” Mel said. “There’s no such thing as a perfect parent, and it’s so easy to mess up. But hopefully, I’ve screwed up less than most.”
