Mark Wahlberg has recently opened up about the death of his mom, sharing heartbreaking details about their relationship…
One of the routines Mark got into was calling his mom every single day. Back in 2018, Alma Wahlberg revealed: “Mark calls me from all over the world. Every single day.”
And day or night, Mark always kept his promise. “I don’t care if it’s 3 o’clock in the morning!” Alma said of their frequent phone conversations.
However, Alma sadly died in April 2021, at the age of seventy-eight. And as well as losing a mom, Mark lost a routine that he’d kept up for a whole decade.
“It was always the first phone call that I made every single day for the last 10 years, was to my mom,” he said, “And I don’t get to make that phone call anymore. And it’s heartbreaking. And that’s hard.”
Talking about his late mom, Mark shared that she was proud of the man he had become, and his personal growth, not just his success on the big screen…
“What made her most proud was us really kind of turning our lives around and becoming really productive people and the family-oriented people that we are,” he explained.
“She was most proud of the husband and the dad that I was. I mean, she always appreciated the successes and the things that I was able to do professionally, but the personal growth really meant something to her.”
When Alma began struggling with dementia, the Wahlberg family grew closer. After her death, Mark’s sister stepped up to take on the role missing from the family, which is something that Mark has thanked her for.
“Now I have my sister who has really been an enormous support system for our entire family,” he said.
“We’re now communicating much more than we were because everybody obviously was off doing their own thing and they’d be in their own lives. And now we’re constantly doing a multi-person FaceTime.”