![]() ![]() “The first opportunity I had to apologize was right there in court when all the dust had settled and I was getting shackled and taken away, and making sure I paid my debt to society and continue to try and do things that make up for the mistakes that I’ve made,” Wahlberg said. ![]() Wahlberg previously told the Associated Press in 2014 that he has “apologized many times” over his past actions (via The New York Post). Reporter Bonnie Stiernberg tweeted, “I gotta say, having Mark Wahlberg, who literally went to jail as a teen for committing a hate crime against a Vietnamese man, present an award to the cast of ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ was certainly a choice.” “It must have been quite a shock for Mark Wahlberg to witness a group of Asians beating white people,” journalist Jeff Yang wrote. Wahlberg has not publicly commented on presenting the SAG Award to Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Lee Curtis, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, and the rest of the “Everything Everywhere All at Once” ensemble cast, but viewers are slamming the decision to have Wahlberg present in the first place. He applied for a pardon in 2014 but ultimately dropped the request in 2016. He was charged as an adult with attempted murder and sentenced to two years on felony assault, but served only 45 days. Wahlberg was accused of beating Trinh to the point that he lost sight in one of his eyes however, those injuries were pre-existing and sustained in the 1970s before Trinh’s altercation with Wahlberg. Per investigators, Wahlberg used racist language at the time of the attack (via Rolling Stone). Wahlberg, who was 16 at the time and allegedly high on PCP, hit Thanh Lam in the head with a stick and punched Johnny Trinh in the face to steal alcohol. Wahlberg was previously convicted of assaulting two Vietnamese-American men in 1988. ![]()
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