From the greediness of Britney Spears' dad to the chemical castration of Michael Jackson, these nine true stories of stage parents will leave you revolted.
Wikimedia CommonsMacauley Culkin ( leave ) , Michael Jackson ( center ) , and Lindsay Lohan ( right ) all navigated greedy , abusive , or enabling renown parent .
Whether celebrity - hungry themselves or eager to defraud their tyke , the worst stage mothers and celebrity parents all had something in common : exploit their kids for their own profit .
Both Lindsay Lohan and Drew Barrymore ’s mamma enabled their addictions while taking handsome cut of their profit . At just 10 years old , Brooke Shields ’ mom sell nudes of her toPlayboy , and Beach Boys ’ frontman Brian Wilson was once forced to defecate on the floor by his own Father-God .
Wikimedia CommonsMacauley Culkin (left), Michael Jackson (center), and Lindsay Lohan (right) all navigated greedy, abusive, or enabling celebrity parents.
From vintage Hollywood to the prescient conservatorship of Britney Spears , these nine cases of barbarous fame parents are almost too savage to believe .
The Abusive Celebrity Parents Who Torpedoed Macaulay Culkin’s Career
Flickr / Alan LightMacaulay Culkin ( centre - right hand ) legally emancipate himself from his exploitative celebrity parent in 1994 .
Kit Culkin was living in cramped conditions with his wife and eight children when his son Macauley became a child star seemingly overnight . For 10 - year - erstwhile Macaulay , however , that rocky route to celebrity felt more like hell — and would n’t get any good .
Known around the world for his roles in ’ XC classicsHome AloneandRichie Rich , Macaulay Culkin appeared to live every baby ’s dream . He got to play arch versions of himself onscreen , befriended pop superstar Michael Jackson , and mould with hoops fable Michael Jordan .
Flickr/Alan LightMacaulay Culkin (center-right) legally emancipated himself from his exploitative celebrity parents in 1994.
His violent male parent , however , managed that adept - studded life history into the reason .
“ My begetter was jealous of me . He was a bad man . He was abusive,”saidCulkin in later eld . “ Everything he render to do in life , I excelled at before I was 10 days old . Our 1994 divorce was one of the skillful thing that ’s ever happened … I was like , ‘ I ’m done guy cable , trust you all made your money because there is no more coming from me . ' ”
BeforeHome Alone , Culkin ’s family was so poor that helookedfor change in the street . His 1990 prison-breaking suddenly made him an A - Baron Lister who earned $ 8 million per picture show . Pocketing 15 per centum of his soaring income , Culkin ’s celebrity parent bought a Manhattan brownstone .
Flickr/Matt BiddulphThese days, Macaulay Culkin performs with his band, The Pizza Underground, and has become a father himself.
Meanwhile , behind the scenes , Kit Culkin ’s inebriation and abuse only worsened .
Flickr / Matt BiddulphThese days , Macaulay Culkin do with his band , The Pizza Underground , and has become a father himself .
When Culkin hostedSaturday Night Livein November 1991 , he was the second - youngest renown ever to do so — and his father not only warn him that night to “ do good or I ’ll run into you , ” but monish him not to use any pool stick card . He even demanded that the integral cast chorus from reading card , too . “ My male parent was such a softheaded person about it , ” Culkin recalled .
“ My father was always , you make out , opprobrious , but it did n’t get really , really , really bad until later on . ”
With theHome Alonesequelgrossingover $ 359 million , Kit Culkin became one of the highest - pay managing director in Hollywood . But he begin demanding originative ascendancy over his son ’s film , forced him into box - office failures , and hassled the studios .
When Kit and his married woman Patricia divorced in 1994 , Macaulay Culkin chose to do the same .
As his parents struggle for hands over him and his riches , Culkin action them both when he was just 15 — and lawfully separated from them as his protector . He has since avoided being in their biography altogether .
