Tragic Details About Macaulay Culkin

Macaulay Culkin was a teenager when his parents split up. The breakup led to a bitter court battle over custody of their minor children, which included him. During the trial, he learned how much money he’d actually earned. “My father would hide newspapers from me so I wouldn’t read the stuff about him or find out how much I was making,” Culkin told New York Magazine, adding, “They didn’t want me running off to my friends saying, ‘I just made $8 million!’”

A judge ultimately awarded sole custody of Culkin and his four younger siblings to his mother; a big part of that decision, reported UPI, was that Culkin and his brother, Kieran, testified that they wanted nothing to do with their father. “Macaulay and Kieran insist they will not work with Mr. Culkin,” said New York State Supreme Court Justice David Saxe.

“It’s always misconstrued, that I ’emancipated’ myself from my parents,” Culkin told Esquire. “I legally took my parents’ names off of my trust fund and found an executor, someone who would look over my finances, just in case anyone wanted to stick their f***ing pinkie in the pie.” While his intent was to remove both parents from a guardianship role over his finances to make a messy situation easier, that wasn’t how the situation was reported. “But the next thing you know,” he recalled, “the story was that I divorced my parents.”