At the same time as his life was undergoing some crazy changes, there was still the problem of his family. Since the custody battle that his mother won, everyone, including Macaulay, had severed ties with his father Kit. But since that day, he had had battles of his own with his mom and siblings. Even the deaths of his half-sister and full sister couldn't bring them together, and by 2014 Macaulay wasn't speaking to any of them.
In 2014, though, Kit Culkin suffered a life-threatening stroke that he was lucky to survive. The father of the family assumed that this might patch the rift between the members, but it seemed that their feud would last longer than him. No-one visited him in hospital, and soon after he made his recovery, Kit declared that he doesn't consider any of his children to be his own anymore.