The 'Deepwater Horizon' actor has a change of heart about the request he filed in 2014 to seek pardon over an assault and battery conviction from his teenage year.
- September 16, 2016
AceShowbiz -
Mark Wahlberg is no longer seeking pardon for assaults he did in 1988 when he was a teen. According to a Massachusetts Parole Board spokesman, the case has been closed after the actor didn't respond to a letter asking if he wished to keep his petition open.
The "Deepwater Horizon" star did regret his pardon request filed in 2014. "I didn't need that, I spent 28 years righting the wrong. I didn't need a piece of paper to acknowledge it. I was kind of pushed into doing it, I certainly didn't need to or want to relive that stuff over again," he explained at Toronto International Film Festival recently.
But he was grateful that the process allowed him to meet and apologize to one of his victims, Hoa Trinh. "I was relieved to find out that the injuries to his eye had occurred in the early '70s and not from the incident that happened that night," he said. "But I was able to meet with him and his wife and his daughter and apologize for those horrific acts. Some good did come out of it."
