Macaulay Culkin opens up about Catherine O’Hara’s death, believes they had “unfinished business”
Macaulay Culkin has opened up about the death of Catherine O’Hara, saying it deeply impacted him as he felt they had “unfinished business”.
The former child star had a close relationship with the late comedy actor, who passed away on January 30th this year, aged 71, after they played mother and son in the Christmas classic Home Alone.
However, Culkin opened up about the grief of losing O’Hara in a new interview with Gentleman’s Journal, in which he said he felt like the pair had “unfinished business” still to complete.
“When Catherine passed away in January, that hit me,” he explained. “That hit me pretty good, because, you know, it was just too soon.”
Expanding on this further, the actor added: “I felt that we had unfinished business. I definitely feel like I had unfinished business with her, you know? I feel like I owed her a favor — and I don’t like having an outstanding debt.”
Culkin and O’Hara had maintained a friendship ever since their first on-screen stint together in 1990, followed by the Home Alone sequel, Lost in New York, in 1992. Subsequently, when the former child actor received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2023, O’Hara was among those to honour him at the ceremony.
“Macaulay — this beautiful, dear little 10-year-old boy — was called a superstar, a moneymaker, one of the hottest leading young men in Hollywood by the world over. How does anyone survive that?”, she said at the time, crediting his “sense of humour” as his greatest trait.
Subsequently, after O’Hara’s passing from a pulmonary embolism four months ago, Culkin poignantly paid tribute on social media by writing: “Mama. I thought we had time. I wanted more. I wanted to sit in a chair next to you. I heard you. But I had so much to say. I love you. I’ll see you later.”
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