Why Don't We Hear About Macaulay Culkin Anymore?

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He walked away from a net worth of $50 million at the age of 14. Why?

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00:00I can't seem to find my toothbrush, so I'll pick one up when I go out today.

00:08How does it feel to have the number one movie in the country?

00:11It's great.

00:12Well, congratulations, Macaulay, on this big award you've won tonight.

00:18My goodness.

00:19I mean, the funniest leading man in a motion picture.

00:23Well, thank you, Miss Welch.

00:24I wonder if you could just do, you know, do that thing for me.

00:29Just one time, please.

00:31Okay, Rack, just for you.

00:34Aaaaaah!

00:41There's like a mystery around you.

00:43You're not, you don't do these things a lot.

00:45Yeah, yeah, I'm kind of like the groundhog.

00:47You were, you know, just like huge, you know, at such a young age, for so long, and then

01:03you kind of stopped when you were, what, 14?

01:05Yeah, about 13, 14.

01:06Yeah, took about a decade off.

01:08Yeah.

01:09And so you stopped because you were just tired of it, or do you think you took it for granted

01:15because it was so easy?

01:17No, I don't think I took it for granted.

01:47He was a bad man.

01:56Like, honestly, he was a bad man.

01:58He was abusive, and like, yeah, like, physically and mentally.

02:01Yeah, like, you know, like, yeah, I mean, you know, I can show you all my scars if you

02:05want to, but like, yeah, no, he was a bad dude kind of thing.

02:08Just to you?

02:09No, no, across the board.

02:18Dad, can you come here and help me?

02:27Hey, this is Matt.

02:29Can we call you Matt?

02:30Sure.

02:32Step up here.

02:33Very nice to meet you.

02:34I mean, this is it, pal.

02:35You are a bona fide star as of right now.

02:38The number one box office movie of the weekend.

02:40Nice to have you on the show.

02:41Happy about this success?

02:42Yeah.

02:43Yeah, yeah.

02:44It's all in a day's work, isn't it?

02:46They tell me that you're trying to gain a little weight, huh?

02:48Yeah.

02:49How's that?

02:50You look real good.

02:51I'm very skinny.

02:53I weigh about 62 pounds.

02:55Like, the kids in my class weigh about 97, so they outweigh me by about, like, 30 pounds.

03:00Take you to Radu and bulk you up.

03:02Yeah.

03:03You, me, and Cindy together will be working out.

03:06You from New York City?

03:07Yes.

03:08How did they find you for all of these movies?

03:10I have an agent.

03:12Since you were a little baby, or?

03:14Since I was six.

03:15Since you were six.

03:16Did you want to go into the business, or did your mom and dad think it would be a good thing for you?

03:19How did it happen?

03:20Well, it just kind of popped up.

03:23It's unbelievable.

03:24Who's your agent?

03:26Because we could use him, I'll tell you that right now.

03:29Take care of yourself, okay?

03:30Nice to meet you, Matt.

03:31Pauly Paulson, the biggest, the giant, beat Rocky.

03:35Knocked him out.

03:46Yeah, my father was such a crazy person about it.

03:50I did the whole episode without cue cards.

03:53He wanted you to do it without cue cards.

03:54Yeah, so also that meant every other person in the cast couldn't have cue cards either, in any scene that I was in.

04:16He was just a bad dude.

04:17That's the thing.

04:18He was a bad, abusive man.

04:25But then all of a sudden, imagine now this man who you dislike, kind of thing, and he dislikes you.

04:31Now I become the sole focus of him when I start earning.

04:36So now all of a sudden I'm going around the country locked in a room with a guy who doesn't like me, kind of thing.

04:42But at the same time, look at it.

04:45I was kind of even relatively jealous.

04:47Oh, he was jealous.

04:49I think so.

04:50Everything that he tried to do in his life, I excelled at before I was 10 years old.

05:14And eventually, I just was like, I'm done.

05:35I'm done, guys.

05:36I hope you all made your money because there's no more coming from me.

05:45I needed something else.

05:46I needed to grow and develop as a person.

05:48I was looking forward to high school.

05:49Yeah.

05:50I was actually looking forward to going to school.

05:56Honestly, I have forgiveness in my heart.

05:58You do?

05:59Yeah.

06:00I've made amends with that whole kind of thing.

06:04Oh, yeah?

06:05That's good.

06:06Yeah.

06:07At the same time, I don't think he's there.

06:08So that's why I kind of don't want to really kind of go there with him a little bit.

06:12Do you think you protect your money, by the way?

06:13Yeah.

06:14No, I still got...

06:15I actually live below my means.

06:17I lead a very, very simple life.

06:38That's the thing.

06:39I treat myself like a retired person.

06:40Everything I do is a hobby now.

06:42When it comes on, which it comes on I'm sure every Christmas, every Thanksgiving, you don't watch it?

06:47No, not really.

06:48And you don't go out of the house during that time?

06:50Yes, I definitely don't.

06:51Yeah.

06:52It's my season.

07:11It's my season.

07:12It's my season.

07:13It's my season.

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