In his 37 years, Macaulay has also seen his fair share of tragedy. When you have a family of nine people, the odds really are against you, and the Culkins are no different. Although his mother and father are still alive, sadly his half-sister - Jennifer Adamson - died in 2000, when she was 29 and Macaulay 19, from a drug overdose. We could only image how difficult this was for Mac, and why he had trouble coping with life in his years ahead.
The so-called "Macaulay curse" didn't end there. Eight years later, in 2008, tragedy struck again. Dakota Culkin, who was also 29 at the time, was struck and killed by a car in Los Angeles outside an Irish bar on Lincoln Boulevard. She was the one sibling that truly stayed out of the spotlight, never attempting to become a star herself.