Mark Wahlberg shares health update on daughter after ‘terrifying’ horse riding accident

Mark Wahlberg’s daughter Grace is ready to get back in the saddle after getting hurt while horseback riding.

The Transformers actor provided a reassuring update on his youngest daughter after she revealed last week that she’d sustained an injury.

“She’s doing great,” he told Access Hollywood on Tuesday, describing the accident as “terrifying.”

“It’s a very, very dangerous sport, but she’s so passionate about it, he continued. “All she wanted to do was get back on that horse, no pun intended. But she was chomping at the bit, and worried that we would deem the sport too dangerous. But she’s so passionate, so dedicated.”

Wahlberg praised his 15 year old for possessing the “discipline of getting up at 4 o’clock every morning, going to to the barn seven days a week, doing whatever she has to do to care for the horses, and training and everything.”

The actor and youngest son of his own extensive clan — Mark is the youngest of nine Wahlberg siblings, including Boston Blue star Donnie — has four children: Grace, Brendan, 17, Michael, 19, and Ella, 22. Though she’s the youngest, in some ways, Wahlberg thinks of her as the most mature.

“I kind of adopted that discipline becoming a parent. For her to have it at such a young age,” he ruminated, then appearing to snap back to memories of the accident, which he described as “very, very scary.”

“No pressure we will be back,” she wrote over a carousel of photos. Most of them depicted the youngest of Mark’s kids with wife Rhea Durham capably clearing hurdles and guiding her steed through the course of an equestrian competition. But the photo that led off the clutch showed Grace looking downtrodden while lying in a hospital bed, her left arm in a black sling.