Speaking of Wahlberg during a May 2017 interview with Fox News, McCarthy further bragged about her husband, saying he has been an "amazing" addition to her family and gushing about his role in the life of her son, who was diagnosed with autism when he was just two-years-old.
"I thought for sure I would be going at it alone, like many parents who have kids with autism do, usually 80 percent of them [are] divorced. So the fact that I found the love of my life for me, and [my son] Evan found a stepdad in his life, I feel like I can't ask for anything else."
During his own interview with Fox News in January 2020, Wahlberg said that while he and McCarthy are often referred to a celebrity couple, they don't live in Hollywood and don't think of themselves in that way.
"We just think we're real people. I mean, I grew up ... we both grew up really poor Irish Catholics — her in the Midwest, me on the East Coast. We live in the Midwest. Her still family is still there, my family's still there on the East Coast. And, you know, Hollywood is just where we have to go to work sometimes," he shared.
