Mark and Donnie Wahlberg
The brothers mourn their mother, Alma
Mother Alma stood in front of the camera with her sons Mark (left) and Donnie in the reality show “Wahlburgers”.
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The brothers Mark and Donnie Wahlberg mourn their mother Alma. She died at the age of 78.
The mother of the American brothers and actors Donnie (51) and Mark Wahlberg (49, “Departed – Unter Feinden”) has died. Alma Wahlberg (1942-2021) was 78 years old. “My angel. Rest in peace,” wrote Mark Wahlberg to a picture of his mother on Instagram. His brother Donnie also said goodbye with an almost two-minute video on Instagram from the head of the Wahlberg family. To this end, he wrote a long text which states, among other things, that he was “blessed to have been brought into this world by such a wonderful woman, brought up” and “to have been brought on the path of my life”. The video shows small clips in which, among other things, he dances and laughs with his mother.
“My mother Alma’s joy in life, love and people – combined with a pride in her humble beginnings and a refusal to forget where she came from – has undoubtedly shaped me into the man I am,” added the singer further out. In July of last year, Donnie Wahlberg published a brief health update on his mother. “During my visit she didn’t remember much and was often confused, but somehow she was still Alma,” he wrote at the time in an Instagram post. Apparently his mother suffered from dementia, as reported by the “People” magazine.
Alma Wahlberg took part in the reality show “Wahlburgers”, which revolves around the family’s burger restaurant of the same name. Mark, Donnie and their brother and head chef Paul Wahlberg (57) have been running the restaurant since 2011, and the show was on the US commercial broadcaster A&E Network from 2014 to 2019. In addition to Mark, Donnie and Paul Wahlberg, the six other siblings also mourn their mother. Family father Donald Wahlberg died in 2008.