Explaining his decision to involve the police, he added: “I just wanted him to know that I wasn’t going to let him get away with those kind of things anymore.”
Parents split in 1995
According to Culkin, his father – who managed his contracts and finances since he became famous – had gotten away with a lot.
“My father would hide newspapers from me so I wouldn’t read the stuff about him or find out how much I was making,” he said about Kit, who was known by filmmakers as difficult to work with.
Culkin then sought legal protection over the money he had earned.
Speaking to Esquire in 2020, the star of The Good Son clarified long-standing misconceptions about that period.
“We didn’t want to go with my father. It’s always misconstrued, that I ‘emancipated’ myself from my parents,” he said. “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.”
