Macaulay Culkin detailed the night he had to call the police after an intense argument with his father.
In an interview with Barbara Walters for ABC’s program “20/20” in 2000, Macaulay Culkin spoke about his troubled relationship with his father and detailed the night he had to call the police after a heated argument with him.
The “Home Alone” star has always been open about his problems with his father, and when Walters asked whether his father was abusive, Culkin said yes and described the moment when everything spiraled out of control.
“I went away for the weekend somewhere without telling him, and he got angry with me and slapped me across the face,” he recalled. “I just fell down, and then he ordered me to get up: ‘Get up.’ I looked at him and thought, ‘I’m not going to fight you,’ because I knew that was exactly what he wanted me to do.”
Culkin said he was attacked one more time before going into his bedroom, locking the door, and calling the police; according to him, doing so sent a clear message to his father: “I just wanted him to know that I wasn’t going to let him get away with this kind of thing anymore.”
The incident marked a breaking point for the family and ultimately led to the separation of Culkin’s parents.
In March of this year, the 44-year-old actor spoke again about the estrangement between them on the podcast “Sibling Revelry”,, hosted by Kate Hudson and her brother Oliver. For him, his father simply ruined everything, not only with him but also with his siblings.
“I haven’t spoken to him in about 30 years,” he said. “He had seven children and now has four grandchildren. Yes. And none of them want anything to do with him.”
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