'He's NOT hooked on heroin': Macaulay Culkin's camp forced to deny tabloid claims actor has '$6,000-a-month drug habit'

By CHRIS JOHNSON

Drug addict? Macaulay Culkin is said to be spending $6,000 a month on hard drugs and prescription pills, according to a new report, pictured here in February

MaCaulay Culkin's representatives have issued a fiercely-worded denial over claims the Home Alone star has a $6,000-a-month drug habit.
A spokeswoman for the 31-year-old actor branded the claims published in the National Enquirer as 'ridiculously fictitious' and 'insulting'.
The American tabloid reported today that Culkin regularly shoots up heroin and the highly addictive painkiller oxycodone - dubbed hillbilly heroin.
The article went on to say the former child star turned his Manhattan apartment into a drug den where he gets high either by himself or with friends.

Iconic role: Culkin as cheeky Kevin McCallister in 1990 film Home Alone

Responding to the allegations, Culkin's publicist Michelle Bega told MailOnline: 'The report in the National Enquirer that Macaulay Culkin is addicted to heroin and assorted hallucinogenics is not only categorically without merit, but it is also impossibly and ridiculously fictitious.'
Ms Bega added that the story was 'destructive and insulting,' to her client.
The Enquirer claims Culkin's drug use intensified 18 months ago - around the time he split from long-term girlfriend Mila Kunis, who is now dating Ashton Kutcher.
A source told the publication: 'Macaulay Culkin is hooked on drugs and it's killing him.
'He's been hooked for a year and a half, and his drug of choice is either heroin or oxycodone.

Life imitating art? Macaulay played a drug-addled club hopper in the 2003 film Party Monster alongside Seth Green

'Mac is surrounding himself with junkies and lowlifes. It's a real tragedy.'
The source - described by the Enquirer as a 'close friend' - also claimed Culkin has had a close brush with death in the past year and almost overdosed.
'Mac suffered a near overdose, and needed help,' the insider said.
'Fortunately he didn't need to call 911 and the near-OD was kept quiet among his pals. But Mac got very sick.'
In February, pictures of of Culkin looking emaciated and shockingly made headlines.
At the time his representatives strenuously denied the actor was addicted to prescription drugs or heroin amid reports the 5-foot-7 star's weight had dropped to 104lbs.

Healthier looking: The actor's drug addiction is said to have intensified after his split from long-term girlfriend Mila Kunis, around 18 months ago, pictured in 2005

Macaulay is best know for his roles as cheeky Kevin McCallister in the 1990 film Home Alone
and the 1992 sequel, Home Alone: Lost In New York.
He also starred in the likes of Uncle Buck, My Girl and Richie Rich.
But his adult career has failed to match the blockbuster success of his childhood days.
In 2003 he played a drug-addled club hopper alongside Seth Green in Party Monster, while his last film role was in 2007 in the Indie flick Sex And Breakfast.

source: dailymail