Mark Wahlberg Talks 9/11 Comments, Apologizes, Slams Reporter

Mark Wahlberg has once again apologized for making controversial comments about September 11th in the new issue of Men's Journal, and is now calling into question the journalist who wrote the story, as well.

Wahlberg told the writer that he would have fought off the terrorists had he been on one of the hijacked planes on September 11th, 2001. The comment was taken out of context, he told a number of radio interviewers.

"I don't go out doing publicity for movies or a magazine cover talking about what's important to me," he told the Kidd Kraddick Radio Show. "I want to promote the movie and whatever questions they want to ask me I am more than comfortable talking about. But it wasn't a Q&A where it was the exact question and my exact response. It was somebody's interpretation of it and you know... that's not OK because I don't want people to be offended. I would never do that."

He was also upset about the sexual questions that were raised in the interview.

"This guy is asking me about sexual questions and I'm married and I have 4 kids, how inappropriate is that?" he commented.

Still, he understands that, as printed, his words did offend people. He completely understands the uproar, he said, and apologized once again.

"I'm not trying to duck and hide. I will certainly continue to apologize to anybody that I offended because that was never my intention," he told the Jojo, Reagan and the Mix Morning Show in Baltimore. "Anybody who was on those planes was a hero. And you want to do anything you can do to prevent something like that from happening. Being somebody who at one point was scheduled to be on one of those flights, I get asked about it a lot and that was the gist of it."

Comments

[Donald Ong]

09:39 PM on 02/29/2012

i am not sure whether the public will accept his apology...

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[eXpresso]

04:51 PM on 02/14/2012

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[gopackgo90]

04:39 PM on 01/26/2012

9/11 was an inside job

[Holly H]

08:15 AM on 01/23/2012

How about have some balls and decide to not answer questions if they're deemed inappropriate.

[rt6913]

08:06 AM on 01/23/2012

Loser just trying to do damage control. I have no doubt he said it and meant it, like most Hollywood types, they pretend to be something and suddenly they think they are actually able to do it in real life and feel qualified to shoot off at the mouth about it.

[van CA]

03:20 AM on 01/23/2012

marky mark. shut your mouth!

[jokamachi]

03:09 AM on 01/23/2012

I'm Mark Wahlberg and I play a tough guy in the MOVIES. Just the MOVIES. Nothing else.

[DallasDon]

01:31 AM on 01/23/2012

Its a good thing Mark was cute
or nobody would care what he says.

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01:52 AM on 01/23/2012

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[trickledown]

11:34 PM on 01/22/2012

There is nothing to apologize for, Huck em.

[Drew2U]

10:45 PM on 01/22/2012

...This is what happens when you start believing your own press. Or agent LOL

[anothervoter]

08:59 PM on 01/22/2012

Taking a page from Newt's playbook Mark?

[JoshSKUM]

08:47 PM on 01/22/2012

This guy has balls to at least apologize. half the people out there like to defend what they say. and Because he knew he angered people he didn't need to argue it. But when people are just ramming him with obnoxious questions over and over like we haven't seen these news stories enough. it does get annoying.
He said they weren't his intentions to offend. But people take things the wrong way and some people don't. I understand what he's trying to say and its cool. anyone would always ask themselves, "what could i have done if i was in there. and if i did it would the outcome be different."
it was a personal opinion.

[Jake Thomas]

09:10 PM on 01/22/2012

It is hardly an apology if you blame someone else. Who cares what his intentions were it is his actual words that count.
I think he actually said that if he was there things "would" have been different, which is insulting to the victims.
I think you are grandstanding if you think you would have made a difference.

[redsongia]

12:33 AM on 01/23/2012

I give him a break. He's a smart alec from Southie. Some reporter talked a little chit and he took the bait. He makes good movies, so I'm content to take that and leave the rest.

[nycagnes]

07:36 PM on 01/22/2012

Wasn't he convicted of manslaughter? This guy is a creep.

[redsongia]

12:33 AM on 01/23/2012

Hmmm. Maybe he would have been an asset on that plane after all.

[JRsNana]

06:27 AM on 01/23/2012

Gotta link to that accusation?

[Absolute]

06:40 PM on 01/22/2012

Another cretin plays the victim card.

[Jake Thomas]

06:05 PM on 01/22/2012

Keep in mind is the same Mark Wahlberg that stabbed a Vietnamese mans eye out, a couple of Saudi's armed with box cutters would be no problem for him.

[oilpatchlibrul]

07:20 PM on 01/22/2012

Keep in mind that it was four Saudis, not two. Keep in mind that they had entered the cockpit and killed the pilots before anyone knew what was happening.

[Jake Thomas]

07:24 PM on 01/22/2012

I was being sarcastic, sorry it was lost on you. I think he is a blowhard.