Today Mark on 'Anderson' Part 2

Mark Wahlberg: 'Jail Was a Wake-Up Call for Me'

Thursday, December 29, 2011 -- 6:00 AM

Academy Award nominee Mark Wahlberg grew up in a tough neighborhood in Boston -- a neighborhood where it could have been easy for Mark to end up like many of his friends today -- incarcerated. Instead, he decided to make a change.

"Jail was a wake-up call for me," says Mark. "I was 16, and I was arrested and tried as an adult. And I ended up going to jail, and a lot of the guys that I looked up to in the neighborhood were actually there and I had become one of them."

Watch as Mark talks about the determination it took for him to turn his life around...