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When a child star falls, the world watches on with intrigue. And all too often, they don’t make it out the other side. Macaulay Culkin could have been one of those tragic stories.
Once one of the most successful child actors of all time – with much lauded roles in Home Alone, My Girl, Richie Rich and Uncle Buck –his life took a different trajectory after he became legally emancipated from his parents aged 14.