His badass youth...far behind him now...
"Finally I was there, locked up with the kind of guys I'd always wanted to be like. Now I'd earned my stripes and I was just like them, and I realized it wasn't what I wanted at all. I'd ended up in the worst place I could possibly imagine and I never wanted to go back. First of all, I had to learn to stay on the straight and narrow." Wahlberg first relied on the guidance of his
parish priest to turn his back on crime. He told his
street gang that he was leaving them and had "some serious fights" with them over it. The actor commented in 2009: "I've made a lot of mistakes in my life and I've done bad things, but I never blamed my upbringing for that. I never behaved like a victim so that I would have a convenient reason for victimizing others. Everything I did wrong was my own fault. I was taught the difference between right and wrong at an early age. I take full responsibility."
He was 16 when he attacked the guy he
allegedly blinded, and he was charged with attempted murder for it, convicted of assault, and did his time. He straightened up for all intents and purposes when he was 21, and as far as I know, has never gone back as far as participating in/promoting the thug/gangbanger lifestyle.
I still like him.
I'd like 50 cent just fine if he didn't have pics of him with guns and have lyrics that glorfy criminality.
Mark Wahlberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia