Los Angeles, May 12 (IANS): Actor Mark Wahlberg says he is not ready to tell his kids about his troubled past including his run ins with police and being jailed for assault.

The 41-year-old, who has children Ella, nine, Michael, seven, Brendan, four, and Grace, three, with wife Rhea Durham, was in trouble with police more than 20 times when he was a teenager and eventually sent to jail for assault.

''They are still young, and I'm not telling them anything until I have to. I will wait until the last possible minute,” femalefirstcouk quoted Wahlberg as saying.

''I certainly don't want to hide my past, but I don't want to make it seem like, 'Daddy went through bad stuff and he came out OK. We can do what we want, it will work itself out,' because that isn't the case.
''I don't know any other success stories of people who survived the kind of place I grew up in and the choices I made and still have the freedom and luxury to talk about it,” he added.