MACAULAY CULKIN - CULKIN IN COMEBACK

Actor MACAULEY CULKIN vowed never to appear in a movie again - following his troubled success as a child star.

But the HOME ALONE star, now 22, changed his mind and accepted the role of killer MICHAEL ALIG in the film PARTY MONSTER, although he's as surprised as anyone to be acting again.

He says, "When I stopped, I stopped and I thought I was never going to do it again. I liked the idea of a 14-year-old retiring. But I never had any intention of coming back. Ever. It was over.

"I just said to everyone, 'I hope everyone made their money, because it's gone. I'm not doing it anymore.' I did not have a publicist or anything to protect me because the press was the last thing I was worried about.

"They were saying some outrageous things like I was partying and this and that. I didn't even go to a nightclub until I was 20."

Culkin insists he's glad to have the money he made in his early years, even though his life was in turmoil for much of that time.

He adds, "I didn't know how much money I had until I turned 18. That was really, really great because before that I didn't have much to show for it. I had sacrificed a lot and I had worked hard, so that was the first time I was actually able to see some result, some kind of reward for all of that."