“I’ve been on and off like really wanting to commit my life to Jesus,” Wahlberg shared. “And then I would do it…but I didn’t have the resources.”
“I just kept trying to do it myself,” he said, because he had taken on the role of trying to hold his family together. Then, after he became successful, people looked to him for answers.
For over three decades, he has lived his life thinking he had all the answers he needed, at times seeking God, at times walking away from God. But lately, Wahlberg has realized that, even though he has had every type of worldly success, he was still “missing something.”
“I’m realizing in this last year, man,” he said. “I’m broken, too. You know, I’m broken, too.”
“I have a wonderful wife, wonderful kids. I have everything,” Wahlberg said. “So, as I am testifying right now, I don’t have a story of having everything and losing it. I don’t have a story of being a drug addict and recovering. And God bless all those people who find their way.”
“Everything to the outside, to everyone, looks perfect, and I was empty,” he said. “I was empty without him and I was existing without him and trying to, you know, glorify him at times, or acknowledge him at times but not glorify him.”
Wahlberg said he had just finished creating the New Kids on the Block Las Vegas show when he realized he needed to commit fully to Jesus. New Kids on the Block’s first Las Vegas residency began in June 2025.
At that time, it appeared to “the outside world” as though he was “at the top,” but instead he “felt at the bottom.” So Wahlberg spoke to his wife, actor and model Jenny McCarthy, telling her, “I have to connect with Jesus. I have to give my life to him now.” She responded, “Of course.”
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Wahlberg was surprised because he thought McCarthy would think what he was saying was weird. They had both grown up Catholic and did seek God, but they also “looked to gurus and experts” who Wahlberg now realizes were “just rearranging the Word.”
