Macaulay Culkin Opens Up About Decades-Long Estrangement From Dad
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00:00So what made you decide to just...
00:02Why'd you quit?
00:03Oh, I was tired.
00:04I remember talking to my father and I said,
00:07I'm getting tired.
00:08Like, I think I need a break.
00:10And he goes, yeah, yeah, I'll look into it.
00:12And the next thing I was in the next thing,
00:14the next thing I was like, oh, I'm stuck.
00:15I felt trapped.
00:16When I turned 14, my dad and my mom were kind of split up.
00:20And I said, great, I quit.
00:22Because now he's out of the picture.
00:23Macaulay goes on to speak about his dad Christopher
00:25Kit Culkin with vitriol, revealing he's been estranged
00:28from him for 30 something years.
00:30Oh, he did.
00:31He deserves it too.
00:32He's a man who has, he had seven kids.
00:35And now he has four grandkids.
00:36And none of them want anything to do with him.
00:39Wow.
00:40He was a bad man.
00:41I would take his whoopings and stuff like that.
00:43But the whole time I was sitting there going,
00:44oh, I'm going to win at the end.
00:46He also shares how the alleged abuse impacts
00:48how he's raising his two sons.
00:49He shares with fiance, Brenda Song.
00:51It's one of my earliest memories of him was when I grew up,
00:54this is how I'm not going to be with my kids.
00:57And now that I got kids of my own,
00:58it's like it kicks up some dust, you know,
01:00and I kind of go, I can't believe he was like that.
01:03Macaulay also admitted he's quit acting several times,
01:06saying he's in a constant state of retirement.
01:09He candidly spoke to us straight after coming out
01:11of an eight year break back in 2003.
01:13I just needed a time off.
01:15I mean, I'd worked straight from when I was six years old.
01:17I lost the reason why I was doing it.
01:19And so I need to get reacquainted with my family.
01:22The 44 year old still hacks occasionally.
01:25And now it's his younger brother, Kieran,
01:27who shot to the highest echelons of Hollywood,
01:29having just won an Oscar for his performance in a real pain.
01:32While some were surprised he left Macaulay
01:34out of his acceptance speech,
01:36Macaulay showed his support at the Vanity Fair Oscar party.
01:39I cried and I was like, I'm going to see you later.
01:42Will you be seeing him here?
01:44What's that?
01:44Will you be seeing him here?
01:45Is this the first time you see him?
01:46I don't know.
01:46He's busy.
01:46He's a busy man.
01:48And on the podcast yesterday,
01:49Macaulay explained how having six siblings
01:51can make for a complicated family dynamic.
01:53Sometimes like one of my siblings,
01:54I remember we didn't speak for about,
01:56this is those adults,
01:58for like eight months over a game of Monopoly.
02:04We unfortunately were unable to reach
02:06Kit Culkin for comment,
02:07but happy to see Macaulay doing so well now.
02:10And I know firsthand that being a child actor
02:12can be a tricky road to navigate.