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Macaulay Culkin calls his friendship with Michael Jackson 'normal' and his father a 'mean b*stard'

Macaulay Culkin (Credit: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Macaulay Culkin (Credit: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Macaulay Culkin has spoken about his long friendship with the late Michael Jackson, while calling his estranged father a ‘mean b*stard’.

The Home Alone actor, now 38, was speaking about Jackson, who he first met when was 10, on US podcast Inside of You.

“He reached out to me because a lot of things were happening, big and fast with me and I think he identified with that,” Culkin told host Michael Rosenbaum.

“At the end of the day, it’s almost easy to say it was weird or whatever but it wasn’t because it made sense. At the end of the day, we were friends.

“I was a peerless person. Nobody else in my Catholic school had even this much idea of what I was going through and he was the kind of person who’d been through the exact same frickin thing and wanted to make sure I wasn’t alone.”

Culkin goes on to describe Jackson as ‘hilarious, sweet and funny’.

Michael Jackson and Macaulay Culkin at the Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York (Credit: Kevin Kane/WireImage)
Michael Jackson and Macaulay Culkin at the Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York (Credit: Kevin Kane/WireImage)

“He was f**king hilarious. He was charming, f**king funny, silly. For me, it’s so normal and mundane. I know it’s a big deal to everyone else, but to me it was a normal friendship,” he explains.

Culkin even spoke at Jackson’s 18-month long trial in 2005 over sexual abuse allegations, where he was accused of molesting a young fan.

He said that he had slept in Jackson’s bedroom on many occasions, but had ‘never seen him do anything improper with anybody’.

Culkin called the allegations facing Jackson at the time ‘absolutely ridiculous’.

Claims of abuse at the hands of the singer recently resurfaced, following news that the Sundance Film Festival is set to premiere a lengthy new documentary by BAFTA-winning filmmaker Dan Reed, Leaving Neverland, which features interviews with two men who claim they were molested by Jackson.

Culkin hit the big time thanks to movies like Uncle Buck, followed by the Home Alone films, My Girl and Richie Rich, but was barely into his teens when he took an extended break from acting.

He has sometimes spoken of his father, Kit, with whom he had a difficult relationship.

“Honestly, he was a mean b*stard. He really shouldn’t have been a father, to be honest,” Culkin told Rosenbaum.

“The word ‘proud’ never came across his lips. I do actually go out of my way, when it comes to my brothers and loved ones, when they do something really good or great, I go out of my way to say that I am proud of them, because that’s something I never really heard.”

He added that he has not spoken to his father in 23 years.

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