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Home Alone star apparently spending $6000 a month on drug habit
01 Aug 2012 at 18:30hrs | Views
Former Home Alone child star, Macaulay Culkin is allegedly spending $6,000 a month on a deadly concoction of hard drugs and potent prescription pills.
Culkin is said to regularly shoot up heroin and the highly addictive painkiller oxycodone - dubbed hillbilly heroin - according to the National Enquirer.
The report says 31-year-old Culkin has turned his Manhattan apartment into a drug den where he gets high either by himself or with friends.
Apparently his drug use intensified 18 months ago - around the time he split from long-term girlfriend Mila Kunis, who is now dating Ashton Kutcher.
A source told the publication: 'Macaulay Culkin is hooked on drugs and it's killing him.
The source - described by the Enquirer as a 'close friend' - also claimed Culkin has had a close brush with death in the past year and almost overdosed.
'Fortunately he didn't need to call 911 and the near-OD was kept quiet among his pals. But Mac got very sick.'
In February, pictures of of Culkin looking emaciated and shockingly made headlines. At the time his representatives strenuously denied the actor was addicted to prescription drugs or heroin amid reports the 5-foot-7 star's weight had dropped to 104lbs.
Macaulay is best know for his roles as cheeky Kevin McCallister in the 1990 film Home Alone and the 1992 sequel, Home Alone: Lost In New York. He also starred in Uncle Buck, My Girl and Richie Rich.
His adult career has failed to match the blockbuster success of his childhood days. In 2003 he played a drug-addled club hopper alongside Seth Green in Party Monster, while his last film role was in 2007 in the Indie flick Sex And Breakfast. These days he earns a living DJ-ing at clubs around New York.
Culkin's half sister Jennifer Adamson died of a drug overdose in 2000. In another tragic twist, the National Enquirer reports that a female friend of Culkin's died earlier this year of a heroin overdose. Elijah Rosello died in March aged 24, with a family source telling the publication that she would do drugs with Culkin on occasion.
Culkin is said to regularly shoot up heroin and the highly addictive painkiller oxycodone - dubbed hillbilly heroin - according to the National Enquirer.
The report says 31-year-old Culkin has turned his Manhattan apartment into a drug den where he gets high either by himself or with friends.
Apparently his drug use intensified 18 months ago - around the time he split from long-term girlfriend Mila Kunis, who is now dating Ashton Kutcher.
A source told the publication: 'Macaulay Culkin is hooked on drugs and it's killing him.
'Fortunately he didn't need to call 911 and the near-OD was kept quiet among his pals. But Mac got very sick.'
In February, pictures of of Culkin looking emaciated and shockingly made headlines. At the time his representatives strenuously denied the actor was addicted to prescription drugs or heroin amid reports the 5-foot-7 star's weight had dropped to 104lbs.
Macaulay is best know for his roles as cheeky Kevin McCallister in the 1990 film Home Alone and the 1992 sequel, Home Alone: Lost In New York. He also starred in Uncle Buck, My Girl and Richie Rich.
His adult career has failed to match the blockbuster success of his childhood days. In 2003 he played a drug-addled club hopper alongside Seth Green in Party Monster, while his last film role was in 2007 in the Indie flick Sex And Breakfast. These days he earns a living DJ-ing at clubs around New York.
Culkin's half sister Jennifer Adamson died of a drug overdose in 2000. In another tragic twist, the National Enquirer reports that a female friend of Culkin's died earlier this year of a heroin overdose. Elijah Rosello died in March aged 24, with a family source telling the publication that she would do drugs with Culkin on occasion.
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