Macaulay Culkin details night he called cops on father
‘He was a bad man’
While his career soared, Culkin, now 45, has said his relationship with his father deteriorated, shaped by abuse and resentment that he believes stemmed from jealousy over his success.
While speaking with Maron, he said Kit ruled through fear. “[He said] ‘Do good or I’ll hit you.’ He was a bad man. He was abusive, physically and mentally – I can show you all my scars if I wanted to.”
‘Nice swipe across the cheek’
One of the most heartbreaking moments from his childhood was revealed during an interview with Barbara Walters in 2000, when Culkin spoke in detail about the night he called the police on his father.
In the interview, Walters asked him directly: “Your mother said your father was drunk and abusive?”
Culkin answered without hesitation: “Yeah, definitely.”
He then described what led up to the incident, explaining that he had gone away for a weekend without telling his father, which triggered a violent reaction when he returned home.
“I went off somewhere for the weekend, and I didn’t tell him, and he got angry with me and gave me a nice swipe across the cheek,” Culkin said. “I just went down, and then he told me to get up, ‘get up’. I looked at him and I was like I’m not gonna fight you, because I knew that’s what he wanted me to do.”
The situation escalated further moments later. “He gave me another one, and my brother walked into the apartment or something like that, and I just said like eff you, I closed my door and locked it, called the cops on him,” Culkin told Walters.
