Jodie and Mel have been close friends ever since they starred together in the 1994 film Maverick. Ever since, the Academy Award-winning actress has had nothing but loving things to say about her actor pal, even throughout all of negative media coverage over the past few years.

She even cast him in her 2011 flick The Beaver, and many are questioning if her loyalty to the troubled star is tied to a possible family connection.

“He’s so incredibly loving and sensitive,” she recently said according to the New York Post. “I knew the minute I met him that I would love him the rest of my life.”

Jodie Foster Not Revealing Identity Of Her Sons’ Father Until They Are 21

Jodie has also promised to not tell her kids who their biological father is until they are 21, according to a report in the Daily Mail, but all eyes have been on Mel since Jodie’s shout-out to him during her Golden Globes speech.

“You know, you save me, too” she said on Jan. 13 when she accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes.

Jodie’s Sons Look Like Mel Gibson

“The kids look like him [Gibson] but blonder,” an amateur genealogist told the New York Post, although no other details were given.

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