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Weekend With Mel Gibson Part of Brit's Rehab

Posted May 16, 08 3:44 PM CDT in Gossip 

(Newser) – Mel Gibson and wife Robyn are building on attempts to help with ex-neighbor Britney Spears' personal rehabilitation with a getaway to their Costa Rica pad, People reports. The group, also including Brit's dad, jetted there yesterday "for a few days to relax." Gibson and Spears have met up previously for meals; a source tells TMZ.com the Gibsons are on a mission "to help stabilize her insane life."

Sources: Entertainment Tonight, TMZ, People

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Pop singer Britney Spears poses on the press line at the Scandinavian Style Mansion party in Los Angeles in this Dec. 1, 2007 file photo.   (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, file)
Britney Spears, accompanied by her father, is in Costa Rica this weekend with former Malibu neighbor Mel Gibson and his wife %u2014 who are intent on helping her clean up her act, sources tell People....   (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, file)
"There are no expectations ... no agenda," a source tells People of the relationship between Britney Spears and Mel Gibson. "Simply an act of human kindness%u2013one neighbor reaching out to the other."   (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Actor Mel Gibson walks off the field after tossing a coin to begin the Hollywood Ashes Cricket match, in a Sunday, Jan. 20, 2008 file photo, in Van Nuys, Calif. Mel Gibson, who's being sued by a writer...   (AP Photo/Rene Macura, file)
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