Mel: Tina cured my drink problem

Mel Gibson has described the moment that Tina Turner helped him realise he suffered from an alcohol problem - and that his looks would waste away through drink.

The Hollywood star, now 46, was working on the 1985 film Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome with the singer, who knows the stormy experience of living with a heavy-drinker after her tumultuous marriage to Ike Turner.

Speaking to Michael Parkinson for a special interview to be broadcast tomorrow evening, Gibson said: "She handed me a photograph of myself one day, and she'd written on it with an eyebrow pencil 'Don't f*** this up'. It wasn't too long after that I figured out what she meant."