Heartbreak that drove Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin to be 'hooked on heroin'

Macaulay Culkin is 31 years.

What has happened to the adorable child actor from "Home Alone"? Fans were shocked (picture hands on face and mouths wide open) to see a gaunt, scruffy-looking Macaulay Culkin in a photo snapped on the streets of New York recently.

Many of the well over 4,000 comments on the Yahoo! story showed concern for the star's health: One wrote, "Dude needs a hug & a cheeseburger." Others wondered if the look was for a role. One even joked that the former child star looked like he was about to play "Homeless Alone."

On a hot night in June, Macaulay Culkin is DJ-ing at Le Poisson Rouge, a nightclub with arty pretensions in Greenwich Village, New York.

Culkin - famous at ten, a millionaire at 12 and a has-been at 15 - lives not far away in a magnificent £2 million loft apartment and can be found at Le Poisson Rouge once a month plying what passes for his trade these days.

On this night, there are absences to visit a back room, and when Culkin and his coterie of friends return, they smell of marijuana.

People who know him say he’s worlds away from the character of Kevin McCallister, the joyful young boy in Home Alone who charmed millions of movie-goers.

Today, skinny to the point of skeletal, Culkin looks far older than his 31 years. His alabaster skin appears papery and his green eyes framed with blonde lashes add to the air of vulnerability which clings to him.

A neighbour at the Shakespeare Book Shop near his home said that Culkin now looks so bad she could easily confuse him with a tramp. He wears ‘vintage’ clothing from secondhand stores, in particular a brown leather women’s jacket, and goes everywhere with his small group of friends.

Indeed, it transpires that Culkin, a multi-millionaire thanks to his career as a child actor, has fallen into some unwholesome company.

Macaulay Culkin @15-28

 

One New York source said: ‘He mixes with a crowd of rich kids who split their time between Miami and New York. They are a fast crowd.’

One fairly new development is a friendship with a rocker Adam Green, from a punk band called the Moldy Peaches. They are so close that Culkin joined the group on a two-month tour of Europe recently, and took to the stage to duet with Green on some of their dates.

Green is a fan of the drug ketamine (originally designed to sedate horses). Disturbingly, he persuaded Culkin to star in a ‘ketamine-inspired’ film, The Wrong Ferrari, last year. Shot on an iPhone, it is both puerile and incomprehensible.                                  Macaulay Culkin @8-10years