In July 2023, an implied big name news YouTube divert known as In (@JustInCeleb) distributed another video that guaranteed movie entertainer and chief Mel Gibson had uncovered diversion symbol Oprah Winfrey with respect to “Sound of Opportunity,” a film focused on kid 𝓈ℯ𝓍 dealing. The title read, “Mel Gibson Uncovered Oprah’s Sketchy Activity For Hollywood World class.”

In any case, no piece of the video, including its computer based intelligence created storyteller voice, at any point introduced proof that Gibson had uncovered Winfrey for anything. It was just deceptive misleading content that was evidently intended to round up YouTube promoting income in light of acquiring video sees from clients who may be inclined to setting blind confidence in happy as long as it concurs with their previous, proof free perspectives.

In this story, we’ve itemized numerous central issues about the video, including its huge view count and the essential cases that were being made about Gibson and Winfrey.

The Misleading Video’s Virality

By early August, the original video link on the Just In YouTube channel had either been deleted or switched to private. We previously reached out to the channel to ask about its content, but did not receive a response.

Before the original video became unavailable, multiple YouTube users reposted the full clip in their own reaction videos. In seemingly all of these reaction videos, the users who were reacting repeatedly made shocked and disgusted facial expressions and indicated with words to their viewers that, after watching the clip, they had concerns about Winfrey. Most of the people who posted reaction videos did not appear to spend even a few seconds to search the internet for information that would reveal the inaccuracies that the original video had misleadingly presented as facts.

One reaction video that was posted by a prominent YouTube user was viewed nearly 3 million times. Other reaction videos had view counts that stretched as high as the tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands.

When combining the likely view count of the original video with the views of all of the reaction videos (and TikTok reposts), it’s entirely possible that the total view count for the clip extended into the tens of millions.

The Beginning of the VideoThe video began with remarks from past clips that featured Gibson and Winfrey, as well as the fake, AI-generated narrator voice:

MEL GIBSON: [The] first time I really came over here. You know, I had a whole bunch of weird, paranoid suspicions, about what the hell was going on because there was a lot of stuff I couldn’t understand.

OPRAH WINFREY: You’re seven years old and someone is stroking your penis. It feels good.

GIBSON: Our future is our children. Now, the first step in eradicating this crime is awareness.

NARRATOR: The latest buzz in Tinseltown is all about Mel Gibson’s explosive revelations in the film, “Sound of Freedom.” Brace yourselves as Mel pulls back the curtain on the dark underbelly of Hollywood’s elite, exposing their alleged involvement in the scandalous world of illicit human trade. And guess who’s caught right in the middle of it? None other than the iconic Oprah Winfrey herself. So, what exactly did Mel say?

GIBSON: Our future is our children. Now, the first step in eradicating this crime is awareness.

We’ve broken down several of these introductory parts of the video below.

Gibson’s ‘Weird, Paranoid Suspicions’

Gibson’s comments at the beginning of the video came from an interview that was conducted back in 1998.

We previously published a comprehensive report that laid out how the contents of that interview had been misleadingly edited and then reposted around the release date of “Sound of Freedom” in July 2023.

Winfrey’s ‘7 Years Old’ Remark

As for Winfrey’s comment about the seven-year-old, that clip was taken out of context from the 2019 special, “Oprah Winfrey Presents: After Neverland.”

In the special, Winfrey interviewed Wade Robson and James Safechuck, two subjects of the two-part HBO documentary “Leaving Neverland,” who both said they were 𝓈ℯ𝓍ually abused by the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. Prior to Jackson’s death, he had denied that such allegations were true.

In other words, Winfrey’s remarks were part of an interview in which she was trying to openly talk about and somewhat expose the way that child-𝓈ℯ𝓍 abusers commit their crimes.

Here are Winfrey’s full remarks from the full context of the interview:

OPRAH WINFREY: So this is what so many people don’t understand. A big part of the confusion and shame for child victims is that the attention and the seduction from the predator who is probably gonna be somebody you know. In order for it to work, it has to be somebody you know, somebody you admire, somebody you respect, or maybe even love. And, it feels good. I mean, if you’re seven years old, and somebody, which I was trying to say this to my friend, to their children, if you’re seven years old and someone is stroking your penis, it feels good. Even though you don’t have a name for what that is, it feels good.

WADE ROBSON: And that was such a particularly challenging part for me in beginning therapy. That was one of the biggest things I kept bringing to therapy was, “What does it mean that it felt good? What does that mean about me?”

WINFREY: Well that’s one of the reasons it’s so confusing for children. And when I first said this years ago, people were like, “You’re crazy,” because everybody wants to believe it’s like 𝓈ℯ𝓍ual assault and you’re being thrown up against the wall and you’re being raped. And I have said for years, if the abuser is any good, you won’t even know it’s happened. You will be in it and you won’t even know it’s happened. And if the abuser is any good, he or she is going to make you feel like you’re part of it.

This portion of the interview begins at the 32:36 mark in the YouTube video below:

In May 2020, Reuters also reported about a rumor that was being shared in relation to the interview, writing, in part, “Social media users have been sharing a video clip of Oprah Winfrey taken out of context and incorrectly headlined to allege she is condoning the 𝓈ℯ𝓍ual abuse of children. This is misleading and false.”

Gibson Didn’t Star in ‘Sound of Freedom’

The original video published by the Just In YouTube channel falsely claimed that Gibson portrayed the “lead role” of Tim Ballard in “Sound of Freedom.” However, that character was played by Jim Caviezel.

Gibson was not credited with directing, producing, writing, or apparently having anything to do with “Sound of Freedom,” which was released on July 4, 2023. According to IMDb.com, the film was directed by Alejandro Monteverde, written by Rod Barr and Monteverde, and had multiple producers, none of which was Gibson.

Gibson did, however, help to promote the film by recording a short video. It was from that promotional video that the Just In YouTube channel pulled the remark, “Our future is our children. Now, the first step in eradicating this crime is awareness.”

NEW: Mel Gibson is promoting ‘Sound of Freedom’ which is set to be released tomorrow July 4th, exposing the reality of child 𝓈ℯ𝓍 trafficking.

“The most disturbing problems in our world today is human trafficking, and particularly the trafficking of children. Now, the first step… pic.twitter.com/Uf61Vk2Hew

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 3, 2023

Gibson Didn’t Make Remarks About Winfrey

“So, what exactly did Mel say?,” the narrator in the Just In YouTube channel’s viral video asked.

The answer to the narrator’s question: Nothing.

Again, as previously mentioned, we found no record of Gibson having made any remarks about Winfrey on the subject, nor was there any evidence to support the long-running conspiracy theory that claimed she was involved in human-𝓈ℯ𝓍 trafficking.

The rest of the viral video discussed various topics that we already extensively covered in another fact check, which dealt with a similar false claim to the effect that stand-up comedian Dave Chappelle had also “exposed” Winfrey.