During an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Mel Gibson confirmed he is expecting a child with his new girlfriend. Mel and Oksana Grigorieva’s first child will be born this fall.

Meanwhile, Mel is currently separated from Robyn, his wife of twenty-eight years.

“He couldn’t be happier,” says a Gibson friend. “He loves being a father.”

Grigorieva, who is signed to Gibson’s record label, Icon Records, is in her second trimester and due in the late fall.

For those eager to point to Grigorieva’s pregnancy as a catalyst for Gibson’s divorce, they’ll be wrong, says the close source: “This has nothing to do with the divorce. Mel didn’t even know Oksana was pregnant when they filed.”

Mel and Robyn have seven kids together, while Oksana has a ten year old son from her relationship with Timothy Dalton. A source claimed Mel’s kids recently met Oksana’s son, and they all get along well.

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