Macaulay Culkin Gives Update on Estrangement From His Father _ E! News

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00:00I haven't spoken to him in 30-something years.

00:02Macaulay Culkin is sharing an update on his estrangement from his father, Christopher Kitt

00:07Culkin. The child actor tells Kate and Oliver Hudson on a March 30th episode of their podcast,

00:13Sibling Revelry.

00:14I haven't spoken to him in 30-something years.

00:17Oh, he deserves it too. He's a man who has, he had seven kids and now he has four grandkids

00:23and none of them want anything to do with him.

00:26Speaking on his reason for quitting the industry, Macaulay says that also involves his father.

00:32Oh, I was tired. I remember talking to my father and I said, I'm getting tired. Like,

00:36I think I need a break. And he goes, yeah, yeah, I'll look into it. And the next thing I was in

00:42the next thing, the next thing I was like, oh, I'm stuck. I felt trapped. So now I,

00:45it started feeling like a job and a chore was before it was fun. And I felt natural.

00:50When I turned 14, my dad and my mom were kind of split up. And I said, great, I quit.

00:55But Macaulay himself is now a dad, sharing two sons, Dakota and Carson with fiance,

01:01Brenda Song. And since his troubling childhood, the Home Alone star has reflected on his past

01:07through the lens of being a dad.

01:09It's one of my earliest memories of him was when I grew up, this is how I'm not going to be with

01:13my kids. And now that I've got kids of my own, it's like, you know, it makes me even more kind

01:18of like, you know, it kicks up some dust, you know, and I kind of go, you know, like, I can't

01:23believe he was like that. You know, he had all these lovely kids. The thing is, he had a certain

01:27amount of resentment towards me, I think is what it was. It's because he, he wanted to be an actor.

01:32And he kind of did some stuff. He never really got as far as like Horace on Broadway, you know,

01:37and, and then he did some ballet too. And I right out of the bat, just was, like, I instantly got

01:45like the lead stuff in the ballet company. I instantly booked all these things like that.

01:49And I think he, I think he, I think he resented me for that. Yeah,

01:52I think he kind of hated me a little bit for that.