“It Hit Me Hard”: ‘Fallout’ Star Macaulay Culkin Opens Up About Catherine O’Hara and Their Unfinished Business

After losing his former Home Alone co-star Catherine O’Hara earlier this year, Macaulay Culkin says he is still struggling with the loss.

In a recent interview with The Gentleman’s Journal, Culkin, 45, opened up about how deeply O’Hara’s death affected him. The actor said her passing in January came as a shock and left him with feelings he still has not worked through.

“When Catherine passed away in January, that hit me,” Culkin said. “That hit me pretty good ’cause, you know, it was just too soon. And I felt that we had unfinished business.”

Culkin explained that he still feels connected to O’Hara and wishes they had more time together. He said he felt like he still owed her something.

“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,” he added.

O’Hara, best known for playing Kevin McCallister’s mother in the Home Alone movies, died in January at the age of 71. Reports said her cause of death was a pulmonary embolism caused by complications related to rectal cancer.

During the interview, Culkin also reflected on how many people from his early Hollywood years are now gone. He said he sometimes feels like one of the last people connected to that era still around.

“I’m not the tip of the sphere. I’m the butt of the sphere. I’m the caboose,” he said. “I’m bringing up some of that old Hollywood guard kind of thing.”

He continued by saying that his experience in the entertainment industry has always been unusual and difficult to compare with others around him.

“I can’t look left and right and think: ‘Oh, those people have had a similar experience to me,’” Culkin shared. “But I try to cherish that as much as I can. I feel like I’m living a really uniquely wonderful life.”

According to reports, O’Hara is survived by her husband Bo Welch, their two sons and several siblings. Her brother Michael O’Hara also recently spoke publicly about a dream he had about his late sister during an appearance on the “Dreams of Our Loved Ones” podcast.

“I was hugging her, which was really beautiful,” Michael said. “I guess it was sort of a goodbye.”

He also shared memories from the final months before her death and said she had slowly stopped speaking much on the phone while living in Los Angeles.

“The love, you know, continues no matter what. They’re always with us,” he said.

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