It seems like Mel Gibson is back to raising eyebrows once again. The controversial actor is reportedly expecting a baby with his 24-year-old aspiring film writer girlfriend. Rosalind Ross is reportedly pregnant with the actor’s 9th child.

“Rosey suddenly gave up drinking about a month ago and while she won’t admit she’s pregnant, she’s not denying it either,” an insider told New Idea.

The source adds, Rosalind has “always said that she wanted to be a young mom, and have three or four children.”

Father of eight Mel has seven children from his marriage to ex-wife Robyn, the eldest three, Hannah, followed by twins Edward and Christian, were born in Australia.

He also has four other sons by Robyn; Louis, William, Milo and Thomas, the latter of whom was just 10 when the pair decided to officially split.

After Mel and Robyn divorced in 2006 following 26 years of marriage, he then enjoyed a relationship with Russian pianist Oksana Grigorieva who formerly dated Timothy Dalton.

The pair welcomed a daughter Lucia together in 2009, before splitting a year later amid controversy.

The new report comes right on the heels of a big fiasco between Mel and a photographer. The film star and director touched down in Sydney a few months ago while he films the World War II epic, which is expected to kick off in earnest in October.

The actor generated headlines a few weeks ago when he was alleged to have pushed a female photographer and subjected her to a verbal tirade outside a Sydney cinema. However, police declined to lay charges.

Mel Gibson allegedly got physical with Kristi Miller when she was photographing him in Australia. “I thought he was going to punch me in the face,” Kristi recalled to the Daily Telegraph.

“He was spitting in my face and he was yelling at me, calling me a dog, saying I’m not even a human being and I will go to hell. He swore and called me a c***. It was non-stop, he didn’t even breathe.”

His rep on the other hand, tells a different story. ”Basically Mr. Gibson and his friend were being harassed by this photographer and he asked her repeatedly to stop, which she did not,” the rep for Mel explained.

“There was never any physical contact whatsoever and the story being told by her is a complete fabrication of the truth.”