Macaulay Culkin reveals he never divorced his parents but was ’emancipated’ from them

Macaulay Culkin has revealed he never divorced his parents when he was 15-years-old to protect the fortune he gained from his quick rise to fame.

Stories circulated that the star sued his parents for £13 million and divorced them as legal guardians to stop them from controlling his future.

But Macaulay is here to tell us it was completely ‘misconstrued’.

Speaking to Esquire, the 39-year-old discussed the custody fight over him and his brother when his parents split up.

‘We didn’t want to go with my father,’ Macaulay said. ‘It’s always misconstrued, that I “emancipated” myself from my parents. 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.

‘But the next thing you know, the story was that I divorced my parents. I just thought I was doing it cleanly—taking my father’s name off, taking my mom’s name off, so my opinion is unbiased. And when I did that, the whole thing kinda ended a lot faster.’

When Home Alone became a success, his father Kit quit his job to oversee Macaulay’s career with partner Patricia.

With the star raking in around £6 million per film, Patricia and Kit began taking 15% of his earnings.

‘Look, I mean, it sucks,’ he said. ‘But, it coulda been worse, you know? I wasn’t working in a coal mine. I wasn’t a child soldier. My father was not sexually abusing me.

‘Certain f***ed up things happened, but f***ed up things happen to kids all the time and they don’t come out the other end. I’ve got something to show for it, man. I mean, look at me: I got money, I got fame, I got a beautiful girlfriend and a beautiful house and beautiful animals.

Macaulay continued: ‘It took me a long time to get to that place, and I had to have that conversation with myself and go, like, Honestly, Mack? It’s not so bad. I want for nothing and need for even less. I’m good, man.’

His issues with his parents ran deeper than money and Macaulay explained that his father was ‘jealous of him’ during an appearance on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast.

The star explained how his father tried to be an actor in his younger years: ‘Everything he tried to do in life, I excelled at before I was 10 years old.’

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