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Radar Online has posted a longer audio clip of Mel Gibson berating girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva over the phone. In this one, he admits hitting her and threatens to do so again — and is so emotional that he's panting — but there's a funny part when he screams, "you make me want to smoke!"
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