Wahlberg opened up about the pair’s rocky start before filming The Basketball Diaries in a 2018 interview with Extra, admitting they "both had a specific opinion about each other" initially.

Despite calls to action, the singer's tour wasn't able to sell the 20,000 tickets they needed.

“Even in his mind, he’s still older than his girlfriends,” writer Elizabeth Gulino quipped in an article for The Cut.