ABC has cancelled Mel Gibson’s mini-series on the Holocaust after Gibson’s drunken anti-Semitic slurs after being arrested for driving while intoxicated.

Gibson was not expected to act in the 4-hour mini-series, nor was it certain that his name would even be publicly attached to the final product. But Quinn Taylor, ABC’s senior vice president for movies for television, had said at the time the project was announced that the attention-getting value of having Gibson attached was a factor in greenlighting the Holocaust project.

After the huge success of his The Passion of the Christ, networks and studios sought out Gibson and his Icon production company because they felt he’d reached a previously untapped spiritual audience for Hollywood entertainment. But the attention-getting value of having Gibson attached to the Holocaust project post-DUI arrest is what got the project killed at ABC.

I guess Mel said it best the night he was pulled over, “My life is f****d.”

Recovery for Gibson: According to Gibson’s rep he has entered a recovery program. 

Gibson’s rep, Alan Nierob, exclusively tells Star, “He is in a program of recovery at this time.”

Chris Prentiss, a neighbor of Gibson’s and the co-founder of celebrity treatment centre Passages in Malibu, Calif., tells Star: “I understand he has gone to a treatment centre. The center that I’ve heard he’s checked himself into follows the Alcoholics Anonymous 12-step program. And I don’t believe that will help him.”

“He needs individual intense therapy by a team of people who know what they are looking for in causes in alcoholism.”