MACAULAY CULKIN A FATHER AT 40!
The former child star has turned his life around and is about to embark on his biggest role yet
He’s the cheeky, blond-haired, blueeyed kid the world fell in love with in such beloved classics as Home Alone, Uncle Buck and My Girl. But despite earning a Golden Globe nomination for his role as Kevin Mccallister, becoming a household name at just 10 years old would have catastrophic consequences for Macaulay Culkin, who turned 40 last month.
“Wanna feel old?” he jokingly asked his fans on Twitter. “I’m 40,” he quipped on his milestone birthday, sparking a flurry of support and memories from his fans.
From drug abuse, a failed teen marriage, box office bombs and an emancipation of his parents, child star Macaulay faced more drama than most adults deal with in a lifetime.
But a source close to the actor tells Woman’s Day he is ready to put the past behind him, as he and his long-time girlfriend, Disney star Brenda Song, 32, prepare to welcome their first child!
“He never wanted a kid after having such a rough upbringing, but Brenda made him see it from a completely different perspective. He’s learned from his dad’s mistakes and is anxious not to repeat them with his own son or daughter,” says the source, who says friends are waiting to hear happy baby news any day now.
“Things really changed when Brenda came into his life. He loves that woman so much, and she’s brought a peace to his world he never knew existed. Turning 40 was the happiest occasion of his life, especially because they’ve decided they’re going to try for a child,” the source adds of the couple who began dating in 2017.
TROUBLED CHILDHOOD
With the prospect of bringing his own child into the world, friends say Macaulay is
reflecting on his own troubled upbringing.
One of seven children who grew up in a tiny apartment in Manhattan, his father Kit, a failed actor, is said to have bullied his children into living out his dreams, with Macaulay previously saying he was “jealous” of him. “Everything he tried to do in his life I excelled at before I was 10 years old,” the actor once explained.
“Macaulay is the first to admit that until recently, he’s a textbook case of a child star that stopped growing mentally when he became super famous,” the source continues.
“Home Alone and My Girl were simultaneously the best and worst things to ever happen to him – the fame triggered half a lifetime worth of chaos.”
‘Until a few years ago, friends feared for his life’
Because Macaulay’s parents were never legally married, when they split up in his mid-teens the situation snowballed into a bitter custody fight rather than a divorce.
For two years, his parents fought over the trust fund, with his earnings worth a reported $27 million at the time. But Macaulay made headlines across the globe when he opted to remove both of their names from the documentation, and placed an executor to oversee all his earnings
– a telling sign of his fractured family.
According to the source, Macaulay still doesn’t speak to his father, while his mother Patricia remarried and moved to Montana.
“He never speaks to him any more even though he’s a very ill old man,” says the source.
Searching for stability in his relationships, Macaulay went on to marry actress Rachel Miner at just 17. They divorced just four years later.
His lack of stable relationships, despite a romance with actress Mila Kunis, is said to have led him down a dark path, with his public profile serving as a gateway to bad influences. “When Mila left him, he was devastated. It took him years to recover, so he numbed it all with partying hard and trying to forget his past . He denies it, but rumours were rife he was addicted to heroin and painkillers,” the source explains. “Right up until a few years ago, friends genuinely feared for his life.”