If you’ve watched the movie, ‘ Home Alone’ then you must know Macaulay Culkin. He was the biggest child star of the 90s. Culkin finally speak out about the drug addiction rumors that have shadowed him all his adult life. In 2012, a US magazine claimed the former child star had developed a serious addiction to the drug and was blowing around $6,000 (£4,525) a month on feeding his habit.
In a rare interview, the former child star now 35 tells The Guardian that the public was “not necessarily” right to worry about him after photos revealing his shockingly gaunt figure sparked talk of a heroin addiction in 2012. But Culkin insists the claims were inaccurate and he scoffs at the suggestion the friend who passed on the ‘information’ to the publication was doing so to help him.
Culkin In The Movie-Home Alone
He added to The Guardian newspaper: “Of course, when silly stuff is going on – but no, I was not pounding six grand worth of heroin every month or or whatever. The thing that bugged me was tabloids wrapping it all in this weird guise of concern. No, you’re trying to shift papers.”
Culkin hinted he may be prepared to share his side of the story in the future. When quizzed on whether he would one day tell-all on his life back then, he stated: “Perhaps.” Culkin endured a spectacular fall from grace following his appearances in hit movies such as Uncle Buck, Home Alone and My Girl as a kid.
His spiral culminated in being arrested for possession of marijuana, Xanax and clonazepam in 2004 and moving away from acting to take jobs as a roadie for touring rock bands.
Culkin – who had a friendship with Michael Jackson – has no regrets about the path his life has taken, and accepts to so many people he will always be fresh-faced prankster Kevin McCallister from Home Alone.
He said: “It’s allowed me to become the person I am, and I like me, so I wouldn’t change a thing.”
Discussing how he copes with all the attention from the public, he explained: “It’s been like that my whole adult life. You take on a prey-like attitude, always scanning the horizon. It’s strange on dates, as it looks like you’re not paying attention. But I’ve stopped trying to think of myself in the third person, because that’s just gonna drive me nuts.
“Macaulay Culkin is out there, and I’m Mac. You guys can play with the first one.”
