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BY LAUREN ZIMA
Mark Wahlberg landed in hot water Tuesday when Men’s Journal published its February issue interview with the actor. Wahlberg was scheduled to be on one of the Boston-to-Los Angeles flights that crashed into the World Trade Center, but changed his plans a week before -- and he told the magazine ...
“If I was on that plane with my kids, it wouldn’t have went down like it did. There would have been a lot of blood in that first-class cabin and then me saying, ‘OK, we’re going to land somewhere safely, don’t worry.’”
The comments quickly drew criticism. The Washington Post’s ‘Reliable Source’ blog writes …
“Oh, really? … Is Wahlberg saying he’s smarter and stronger than everyone else? Or just that he loves his family more?”
And New York’s WNYW spoke with a man whose wife was killed in the attacks -- he speaks as if talking directly to Wahlberg.
“You can’t say that you knew what you were going to do because you weren’t in the situation. He’s looking at it with hindsight right now. ... As much as you might have wanted to stop this thing, you are not the superhero your movies depict you as.”
But Wahlberg quickly apologized. The actor gave this statement to TMZ:
"To suggest I would have done anything differently than the passengers on that plane was irresponsible. … To speculate about such a situation is ridiculous to begin with. … I deeply apologize to the families of the victims that my answer came off as insensitive, it was certainly not my intention."
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