I found another solution that seems to work. Don't know why or how but it fixes my problem.
global $wgTitle, $wgParser, $wgOut;
$output = //do some stuff $output = $wgParser->parse( $output, $wgTitle, $wgOut->mParserOptions, true ); return $output->getText();
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