BERNIE MAC - BERNIE MAC CREDITS CHILDHOOD BEATINGS FOR MAKING HIM A MAN

OCEAN'S ELEVEN star BERNIE MAC credits the regular whippings he got as a child for turning him into a successful man. The funnyman-turned-actor admits he was often dragged away from playing in the street to get a beating from his grandmother or his mother - but the punishments helped make him a man. He says, "If my grandmother or mother heard something that we were out of line we were in trouble. Whippings were very popular in my day. "My grandmother would come and get you in the street. We had to be in when the streetlights were on and if you were missing you got whippings... We got the belt. "My mother would come to school and if I was misbehaving my mother gave me a whipping in front of my class. "They didn't ever let us do anything less than 150 per cent. If we started something she said we had to finish. She never let us quit. We had rules and guidelines. "All the time I thought she was a warden. But she wasn't. It made me a man, it really did."

23/03/2007 19:52