Sleepovers At Michael Jackson's House
Macaulay Culkin has been loved all around the world since the movie Home Alone debuted. Since becoming an adult, he has definitely dome some questionable things!.
As an adult, he has done some truly strange things.
Macaulay was a guest at Michael Jackson’s infamous sleepovers. The two had quite a special friendship. They bonded because they were both child stars pushed by their parents to achieve great things.
(God)father Of Michael Jackson’s Kids
Neverland Ranch provided a place where they could be themselves, without paparazzi or fans. The famous estate was stocked with endless varieties of sweets, a carnival and more! Macaulay publicly supported Jackson when people started blaming him for misconduct at the estate.
Michael Jackson was longtime friends with Macaulay Culkin. One of the utmost displays of trust is asking someone to be your child's godparent.
No Longer a Child Star
Macaulay was given this honor by being the godfather of Paris Jackson.
After a financially successful sequel to Home Alone, Hollywood decided to make the movie a trilogy. Macaulay was not interested in getting involved. A new cast of characters tried to fill his shoes but left fans wondering how Kevin McCallister turned out as an adult.
Married At 18, Separated at 20
Macaulay was in the 2015 web series :DRYVRS. In this series, we got a glimpse into the chain-smoking, nail-polished Kevin.
Macaulay achieved financial stability very quickly. At the age of 17, he announced his intention to marry actress Rachel Miner.
Mila Kunis Never Wanted Marriage
She and Culkin loved watching movies and spent a large amount of time taking care of stray cats. Unfortunately, this marriage was short-lived: the couple separated in 2000 and finalized their divorce in 2002.
Macaulay and Mila Kunis dated for eight years but they never decided to take the next step and get married. Macaulay had just exited a marriage, and Mila revealed that she was against marriage since she was 16.
Among The Highest Paid Child Actors
Eventually she did end up marrying Ashton Kutcher.
Starring alongside comedy legend John Candy earned the eight-year-old $40,000. It was a large amount of money for his modest family at the time. Christmas 1990 changed everything!
Hosted SNL At Age 11
Home Alone made $476 million worldwide and the sequel made $359 million. These successes gave Macaulay such a high value as an actor that he was paid $8 million for his part in the 1994 film Richie Rich.
Comedians sometimes get the honor of hosting the comedy program Saturday Night Live after a long proven career. Macaulay skipped the line and hosted the show at age 11!
He Never Knew How Much He Was Making
This remarkable record is only eclipsed by Drew Barrymore, who hosted SNL at age 7 after her role on E.T.
Having millions in the bank can be a blessing and a curse. Many people end up blowing their money on frivolous, impractical things. This leads to them quickly realizing that they are broke.
Grew Up Very Poor
In order to protect Macaulay from this experience, his father hid newspapers from him. This ensured that he didnt know how much he was making.
Kit Culkin and Patricia Brentrup lived very modest lives before Macaulay’s success. Kit worked at a Catholic church as a sacristan, setting up mass while patricia was a telephone operator.
Dad Was Intense Manager
All seven kids lived in one room on bunk beds. Macaulay would sometimes crawl under the bleachers at the theater to look for change that had fallen out of people’s pockets.
Although Kit Culkin had some success as an actor, he never achieved what his son did. Kit managed Macaulay’s career while gaining a reputation as a ‘stage mom’.
His Band Was Viciously Booed Off Stage
Kit would negotiate with movie executives for vast sums of money for the sequel to Home Alone, which he got.
In 2013, Macaulay and his musician friends decided to form a band. They named the group, The Pizza Underground. The Pizza Underground featured a pizza box percussionist, who made music from cardboard. Unfortunately, not everyone liked the music.
Appeared In MJ Music Video
The band was showered with beer and booed off stage during the Dot to Dot Festival in Nottingham.
No Pressure
Macaulay has been focused on quality over quantity as an artist. He has always said that he would rather do one cool project a year than a bunch of average ones. This freedom is most likely due to his lack of economic pressure, as he had made enough money to live for the rest of his life.Outside of performing on the big screen, Macaulay enjoys flexing his stage-acting muscles. Surprising to most but he does have classical training in ballet from the School of American Ballet. He played Fritz in Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker at the famed Lincoln Center.
Has Two Unequally Sized Eyes
This is when Michael Jackson visited him backstage to introduce himself and the pair became close friends. Macaulay appeared as an irreverent tween in Michael’s music video for “Black or White” in 1991.
Macaulay has always been famous for as long as he can remember. One of the strange things about this level of fame is that your “home movies” are publicly-viewed Hollywood movies.
Kids’ Unflattering Nickname For Dad
This high level of being in the spotlight has led to an intense self-awareness. He realized that he has two unequally-sized eyes.
During the 1995 custody battle between Culkin’s parents, Macaulay and his siblings had an unflattering nickname for their dad: ‘stinky’. There were allegations that Kit forced Macaulay to sleep on a couch instead of a bed, just because he could.
Macaulay Has Agoraphobia
He wanted to just show him who’s boss.
Macaulay admits to being agoraphobic, an extreme or irrational fear of crowded spaces or enclosed public places. Perhaps this came from the endless pestering from paparazzi and fans.
The Stool
It’s understandable that he prefers to stay inside away from people considering a crowd of fans once mobbed his trailer.
Macaulay, like all other kids, attended high school. It was nothing like other kids’ experiences though as this was a school where a vast majority of the students were child actors or dancers. He had a group of twenty friends who would hang out daily in the family high-rise.
Ex-wife Rachel Miner Thought He Was A Jerk
Eventually he got an extreme case of senioritis, where he would refuse to sit in the chairs provided by the school. He instead insisted on sitting on a stool that he moved between classrooms.
When Macaulay’s future wife Rachel Miner moved schools to meet the already iconic 14-year-old, she introduced herself by name. Macaulay apparently welcomed her to the school but never reciprocated with his own name.
Secret Wedding Location
Miner got the impression he was a jerk. They broke up and got back together 3 times before finally marrying on the fourth try.
Macaulay has been dealing with paparazzi snapping photos of him as long as he can remember. The media would have mobbed and probably ruined the small wedding he and Rachel Miner planned.
RIP Macaulay
He had to inform guests of the location using a bizarre scavenger hunt to find the ceremony. First the guests were directed to a hotel, where they learned of the coordinates of the Connecticut home where the picnic-like, casual ceremony was being held.
Death hoaxes spread like wildfire on the internet, with concocted stories about the passing of Bill Murray, Jerry Springer and Bill Nye among many others shared countless times. Macaulay was also rumored to have died in 2014, and responded in the most epic way.
Relationship With Jordan Lane Price
He posted a photo on Twitter of himself with eyes closed, playing dead while re-enacting a scene from Weekend At Bernies. At the time of the hoax, he was on tour with his band, and opened their Austin show by yelling, “I’m alive!”
After his eight-year relationship with Mila Kunis ended in 2011, nobody knew much about his dating life. In 2013, he was seen in Paris with new sweetheart, Jordan Lane Price.
Brother Was Also In Home Alone
She stars in the online reboot of All My Children. He spent time with her in restaurants, with no holds on public displays of affection.
Macaulay’s father was a Broadway actor, and his aunt Bonnie Bedelia is an actress with brand name credits like Die Hard and Parenthood. Kit had plans to make his kids into thespians as well. Along with Macaulay, his brothers Kieran and Rory are both actors.
Godfather Matches Goddaughter
Kieran was also in Home Alone, playing Kevin’s younger, bespectacled cousin Fuller. Rory starred in the hit movie Signs.
Family relations have been at times strained in the Culkin family. Macaulay has overcome these issues and has become a loving individual towards his godchildren, especially Paris Jackson.
Macaulay The Writer
They also recently got matching tattoos – a red spoon they both have adorned on their arms.
Mack is truly overflowing with creativity; he had his first book “Junior” published in 2006. He dissociates himself from the book and writing and says, “I am not a writer. I am a fraud, and you can quote me on that.” The book is unique and creative, with seven distinct endings.
60 Cigarettes A Day
The book explores the rocky relationship with his father but is not a straight memoir. it including sketches, poems and short stories.
Smoking cigarettes is a dangerous habit. Macaulay chose to ignore the warning labels and doctors.
Two Of His Sisters Died At 29
He allegedly would smoke a whopping 60 cigarettes per day! This is an alarming rate, and friends voiced their concerns that his teeth were yellowing, and his health was in decline.
We have seen troubled child stars pass away at an early age, but we rarely expect tragedy from their out-of-the-spotlight siblings. Unfortunately, the Culkin family has seen a few.
Gaunt From Addiction?
Macaulay’s half-sister died at age 29 resulting from an overdose of substances. Then, his older sister Dakota died also at age 29 after being struck by a vehicle in west Los Angeles.
The public worried dearly for Macaulay after he appeared gaunt and paler than he already was. There was a suspicion that his health was in decline after developing a severe substance abuse habit.
Cleaned Up And Working
In London, he was even mistaken for a homeless person trying to bum a smoke off some students at a bar. He has denied that he had any addiction issues and accused the tabloids of conjuring stories for profit.
Macaulay has certainly been through ups and downs, but there seems to be some change. He was spotted looking as healthy as he’s ever been, dressed like a clean-cut hipster.
This was on the same night as a dinner date with fellow former child star Brenda Song, with whom he is starring in an upcoming film, Changeland.
Lives In Paris To Escape Paparazzi
In many pictures of Macaulay snapped by the ever-present paparazzi, you can see that he is trying his best to cover his face by brushing his hair. This is a technique widely known by the rich and famous to ensure that paparazzi do not get the picture they need to get paid.
Culkin took a more extreme, but permanent approach by moving to Paris, where the media is less in a frenzy about him.
Arrested In 2004
Macaulay was a passenger in a Pontiac speeding down the Interstate 44 when a squad car noticed them driving 10 miles per hour over the speed limit, and changing lanes without signaling. They were about to receive a verbal warning, but the nervousness of Macaulay’s companion tipped the cops off and the officer began to ask about what they had in the car.
During a search of the vehicle, illicit controlled substances were found, and Macaulay was arrested and jailed, before being released on $4,000 bond.