‘I Warned Post Malone Not To Any More Tattoos’ Says Mark Wahlberg

LOS ANGELES, CA. (THECOUNT) — Mark Wahlberg while appearing on last night’s “The Late, Late Show with James Corden,” says he warned musician Post Malone against getting any more tattoos.

Wahlberg, 48, says the advice he gave to the trap artist came on the set of his new film “Spenser Confidential,” in which 24-year-old Malone makes his acting debut.

Wahlberg, who himself had “eight or nine” tattoos removed over the years, was asked if he pulled Malone aside and gave the rapper any tattoo-related advice. Wahlberg said he did.

“Yes, I have,” Wahlberg told Corden. “And you know what, he’s now since added more to his face. And I’m like: ‘It’s not the same sitting down and having a couple beers, you can fall asleep, you wake up and all of a sudden it’s one and done. It took me five years to get all of the tattoos removed. And it’s dreadfully painful,'” reports Insider.

Indeed, Wahlberg said getting a tattoo removed is “1000%” more painful than getting the tattoo done in the first place, and likened the experience to “hot bacon grease getting flicked on you over and over again.”

“I had, like, eight or nine. They went all the way around my neck, my stomach, my arms, my back, my leg.”

When asked what made him want to get the tattoos removed, Wahlberg said: “Maturity. Sensibility.”

Wahlberg said that he was trying to get his tattoos removed before he shot “The Fighter,” in which he played real-life boxer Micky Ward. Wahlberg said that the dermatologist told him the removal should be completed over five to seven visits spanning five to seven years — a visit of once a year. But Wahlberg visited once a month and got the tattoos removed in less than seven months.

“So I told Posty it’s going to be a lot of Bud Lights trying to get those things off of you,” he said.

Wahlberg said that Malone “said what every kid says,” and what he himself said, when he got his tattoos: “‘No, no, no, they all have meaning, I’m going to keep them forever.’ But then you realize: ‘I’m pushing 40, I got to do something about this.'”