8 Times Talented Actors Were Awful People

6. Mark Wahlberg

The Entourage creator had a very violent youth growing up in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Wahlberg had been in trouble with the law over 20 times before he turned 16 for violently racist assaults. At 15, civil action was filed against Wahlberg for his involvement in two separate incidents of harassing African-American children, by throwing rocks and shouting racial epithets. The following year he beat one Vietnamese man so badly that he believed he had blinded him (the man had actually lost his eye during the Vietnam War). Mark was sentenced to two years in jail. Today, Wahlberg describes his guilt, “I did a lot of things that I regret, and I have certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn’t until I really started doing good and doing right by other people, as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don’t have a problem going to sleep at night. I feel good when I wake up in the morning.” Do you forgive him?