Never More Alone ; Hooked On Drugs and Gambling. A Career in Ruins. Still at War with His Crippled Father. And Now - the Irony - Too Terrified to Leave Home Alone . . . The Desperate Plight of Macaulay Culkin

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EVEN at the moment of his most public fall from grace, Macaulay Culkin could not break free of the past he would prefer to forget.

Staring blankly into the camera lens as he posed for that most unforgiving of portraits, the police mugshot, the evidence of the dissolute life he has chosen for himself is there for all to see.

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Never More Alone ; Hooked On Drugs and Gambling. A Career in Ruins. Still at War with His Crippled Father. And Now - the Irony - Too Terrified to Leave Home Alone . . . The Desperate Plight of Macaulay Culkin

His eyes sunken, his skin colourless and his hair dyed from its natural blond to a muddy brown, Culkin's chin also betrays several days' stubble.

Yet despite the obvious dissipation, there remains more than a glimpse of the impish looks that made him the most bankable child star of all time.

It is precisely that unmistakable pixie expression, that elfin calling card, that Culkin has sought to disguise. For him, it is an unwelcome reminder of his onetime career as the star of the hugely successful Home Alone movies and of the price he has paid for his fame.

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