Macaulay Culkin opens up on 30year estrangement from dad Kit
Apr 01, 2025
Former child actor Macaulay Culkin opened up about his relationship with his estranged father Christopher “Kit” Culkin in a podcast appearance.
The “Home Alone” star, 44, told Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson on a recent episode of their “Sibling Revelry” podcast he “wanted nothing to do
with [his] father” after his parents separated decades ago during Culkin’s time in the spotlight.
Their divorce kicked off a high-profile custody battle between Christopher Culkin and Patricia Brentrup over their seven children.
“I haven’t spoken to him in, what would it be, about 30-something years?” Macaulay told the Hudsons. “He deserves it, too. He’s a man who — he has seven kids, and now he has four grandkids, and none of them want anything to do with him.”
“I would know, as a man myself, I would know that I f–ked up. I must have done something wrong,” he said. “I have more than an inkling that he does not feel that way. Like [to him,] we’re wrong, and he’s right. He’s one of those narcissistic crazy people. Me and him were always butting heads. Like I said, he was a bad man.”
Macaulay Culkin and his father, Kit Culkin, attend 17th Annual People’s Choice Awards on March 11, 1993 at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)
Culkin added that his siblings’ attempts to reconnect with their dad had gone badly.
“As far as I know, I think my older brother had some contact with him at one point. But I think that turned sour pretty fast again,” he said.
Culkin said ultimately his father could not handle the young actor’s rapid success.
“[He] wanted to be an actor, and he kinda did some stuff,” Culkin said. “And right out of the bat… I instantly booked all these things like that. And I think he resented me for that. I think he kind of hated me a little bit for that.”
“One of my earliest memories of him was, ‘When I grow up, this is how I’m not gonna be with my kids,'” the actor said.
Culkin is engaged to actress Brenda Song, with whom he shares two sons.
He previously discussed his father’s abuse on a 2018 episode of “WTF with Marc Maron.” ...read more read less
