
Seeing the footage of his flight crashing into the North Tower, MacFarlane told an airport bartender he was supposed to be on that plane. “It was a very close call for me.”Īfter booking the next flight, MacFarlane said in a CNN interview, he then took a nap at the airport’s lounge, and woke up 45 minutes later amid the commotion of people learning the terrible news. “I was booked on that flight and I was drinking the night before and hung over and I missed the plane by about 10 minutes,” MacFarlane told the Mirror years later. The actor and cartoonist was scheduled to board the same plane as Wahlberg – Flight 11 – but arrived late at the airport. “There would have been a lot of blood in that first-class cabin and then me saying, ‘Okay, we’re going to land somewhere safely, don’t worry.’”Īfter a public outcry, Wahlberg later apologised for his comments.įamily Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has a hangover to thank for surviving America’s worst terrorist attack. “If I was on that plane with my kids, it wouldn’t have went down like it did,” Wahlberg told Men’s Journal. Years later, the actor boasted that if he’d been on the plane, he would have personally stopped the hijacking. On the day of the attacks, actor Mark Wahlberg was scheduled to fly on American Airlines Flight 11 – the first plane that crashed into the World Trade Center.įortunately for Wahlberg, he and his friends made a last-minute decision not to fly to Los Angeles, where the plane was headed, but to a Toronto film festival instead. ‘You kept me up talking so late that I overslept and missed my appointment.’” ‘Mother, I’m okay, thanks to you,’ he told her.

She, Rebbie and a few others had left him there around 3am.

Firstly, Mark wakes up at 2.30am before praying, having. We only discovered this when Mother phoned his hotel to make sure he was okay. Mark Wahlbergs daily routine is infamously structured with a notoriously early start at 2:30 am.

The actor blew everyone away when he first shared his daily agendawhich starts with him getting up at 2:30 in. “Thankfully, none of us had had a clue that Michael was due at a meeting that morning at the top of one of the Twin Towers. According to a daily schedule that actor and fitness fiend Mark Wahlberg shared on his Instagram story earlier this week, his day starts with a 2:30 a.m. It's no secret that Mark Wahlberg keeps to a notoriously rigorous diet and schedule. Years later, the elder Jackson recalled the near-miss in his memoir, You Are Not Alone Michael: Through a Brother’s Eyes:
