“Home Alone” actor Macaulay Culkin just received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. After a life of ups and downs, more sad than happy, Culkin appeared for the first time with his wife and two sons.
At the star reception event on the Walk of Fame in Los Angeles (USA), actor Macaulay Culkin was very emotional. Also present at this event was actress Catherine O’Hara (69 years old), who played Culkin’s mother in the movie Home Alone (1990).
Culkin with actress Brenda Song and son Dakota.
Taking on the role of guest speaker at the event, actress O’Hara said: ” Home Alone is a globally loved movie. Families all over the world still watch the movie over and over again.” This movie. That’s thanks to Macaulay Culkin’s acting. I know he tried a lot, but he made us think everything happened very easily and naturally.”
Actress Catherine O’Hara also made those present at the event laugh when she recalled the tragic plot in the series Home Alone .
“Congratulations Macaulay. Thank you for inviting me to this event. I played his mother in the movie, a mother who forgets her child, leaving him home alone not once, but over and over again. .. twice.
Also appearing at the event was Culkin’s longtime girlfriend – actress Brenda Song (35 years old). The couple brought their two young sons – Dakota (2 years old) and Carson (1 year old) – to the event.
Culkin’s goddaughter – singer Paris Jackson – was also present. Paris Jackson is the daughter of “pop king” Michael Jackson.
Culkin with relatives and friends and colleagues at the event.
Culkin with his girlfriend and son Carson.
Culkin received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In his speech when accepting the star, Culkin thanked his girlfriend Brenda Song: “I want to thank Brenda, she is everything to me. She is the most wonderful person I have ever known in the world. this life. After our two sons were born, I had the 3 people I love most in this life.”
Culkin is best known as a child actor. As a child, Culkin appeared in films such as Rocket Gibraltar (1988), See You in the Morning (1989), Uncle Buck (1989), Home Alone (1990), Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) …
Culkin’s fame continued to grow in the 1990s. The child actor acted in films, appeared in television shows, appeared in the music video Black or White of “pop king” Michael Jackson… Culkin continued to appear in films until 1994, then paused his acting career due to instability in his personal life.
Macaulay Culkin was rumored to have died “five times, seven times” because he collapsed to the point of “a debilitating illness”.
Fame came to Macaulay Culkin when he was 10 years old. With the role of little boy Kevin in Home Alone , Culkin became the most popular child face in Hollywood, that role will forever be the pinnacle of Culkin’s acting career. Later on, no role of Culkin reached such a level of success.
Culkin in the movie “Home Alone”.
Culkin’s career can be summed up in the image of “one glorious minute and then it was gone”. Culkin’s later adult years were characterized by instability. Even as a teenager, Culkin realized that his biological parents were not acting in his best interests.
Therefore, Culkin soon filed a petition in court so that his parents no longer had control over his assets even though Culkin was not yet an adult at that time. The relationship between Culkin and his parents has also become distant since then.
Later, in adulthood, Culkin also got into trouble with the law many times for possessing banned substances. There were periods when Culkin was haggard and emaciated to a very worrying degree. This is what caused rumors to appear that Culkin was seriously ill and about to… die.
Culkin’s decline, shabbiness, and haggard appearance made those who loved the boy Kevin in Home Alone feel sad. The story of Culkin is one of the typical stories about the “early blooming, quick to fade” tragedy that happens to child stars in Hollywood.
It was the success from childhood that brought Culkin to the top and then buried Culkin in the abyss, when he could not overcome the curse of falling that often happens to child stars.
Macaulay Culkin was rumored to have died young “five times, seven times” because there were periods when he was so depressed that he “was physically devastated”.
Not having a normal childhood, feeling that his parents took advantage of his money, having to find a way to grow up on his own, in the end, in wealth and loneliness, Culkin soon fell and slipped, seemingly lost.
get up. Only when he entered a relationship with actress Brenda Song did Culkin begin to become more stable in life.
Currently, Culkin has become more stable in life, he appears with a healthy appearance and reappears with a number of supporting roles in television series. Culkin has completely said goodbye to his previous haggard and shabby image.
He is also actively cooperating with a number of charities that protect wildlife and support cancer patients.
Culkin with girlfriend Brenda Song at the event.
Culkin has been with Song since 2017, and they lead a rather private life. The two of them worked together to keep their two young children as normal as possible. They want their family life to be outside the attention of the media and the public. The two do not post photos of their children on their social network accounts.
The event Culkin received a star on the Walk of Fame was the first time the couple’s two sons appeared before the media and the public.
After a childhood spent growing up under the gaze of the media and the public, combined with his adult years surrounded by many scandals, Culkin now pursues a private, private life, away from the news flow. noisy showbiz.
For the first time appearing with his wife and children, the star of the movie ‘Home Alone’ welcomed great joy.