Mel Gibson has denied pushing and spitting at a female photographer in Sydney.

Kristi Miller photographed the actor and director leaving a cinema in the city with his girlfriend Rosalind Ross on Sunday (August 23), and claims that he became physically and verbally aggressive as she took the pictures.

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She told Australia's Daily Telegraph: "I took a photo of Mel and his girlfriend and when I turned around he shoved my back really hard... it shocked me because I wasn't expecting it. I don't know if it was his hands or elbow."



She alleged: "He was spitting in my face as he was yelling at me, calling me a dog, saying I'm not even a human being and I will go to hell," adding that Ross apologised for his actions as she tried to calm him down.

However, Gibson's US publicist Alan Nierob has hit back at Miller's claims, describing the story as "a complete fabrication".

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"Basically Mr Gibson and his friend were being harassed by this photographer and he asked her repeatedly to stop, which she did not," he told The Guardian. "There was never any physical contact whatsoever and the story being told by her is a complete fabrication of the truth."



Nierob didn't respond to Miller's claims that she was verbally abused by Gibson.

Local police have confirmed that they are looking into allegations that a man "became involved in an altercation with a photographer outside a cinema on Oxford Street" early on Sunday evening.

Gibson recently travelled to Australia to begin work on Hacksaw Ridge, which stars Andrew Garfield as a conscientious objector during the Second World War.

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