Mark Wahlberg is a world-famous actor, and entrepreneur with a tough-as-nails persona. However, his love for his mother was never a secret.
“She touched everybody that she met,” said Wahlberg in a 2018 episode of Through Mom’s Eyes. His beloved mother, Alma Wahlberg passed in April 2021.
“I mean this so sincerely, Mark,” Sheinelle Jones said on TODAY. “She changed my life.” The interview with Alma, which was supposed to last for 20 minutes, lasted hours,” she said.
“For me, she was the true meaning of the word matriarch,” Sheinelle, who has three kids of her own, said. “She always talked about how you would call her every day. And she would say, “Call your mother – I can’t do her accent,” Sheinelle said.
Alma was a hard worker who provided for her large family of 9
“That was pretty good. That was better than most of the people in ‘The Departed’ that weren’t from Boston,” Wahlberg quipped, referring to the Oscar-winning 2006 film directed by Martin Scorsese. Mark Wahlberg further explained that his mom, Alma was the true definition of hard work, with nine children to provide for.
“She was truly an inspiration,” Mark Wahlberg said. “You caught me off guard there by pulling out that one, I’m going to go watch that interview just so I can see her face.” “I mean, all I have now is the recordings and the voicemails that she left me, and I listen to them quite often.”
Wahlberg shared the advice he now tells everybody he knows who have parents who are still alive today: “I remind them to call them every day, tell them how much you love them, and be there and connect with them as much as possible.“
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