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National Enquirer Defends Macaulay Culkin Heroin Addiction Story, Offers Drug Test

10:48 am, August 3rd, 2012

(National Enquirer)

The National Enquirer is not backing down from its claim that Macaulay Culkin is a heroin addict with six months to live.

As Gossip Cop previously reported, the supermarket tabloid’s current issue alleges that the actor is “hopelessly hooked” on drugs, with friends supposedly fearing “he’ll overdose or his heart will explode.”

In a statement to Gossip Cop, Culkin’s rep blasted the Enquirer for its allegations, calling the cover story “not only categorically without merit, but… also impossibly and ridiculously fictitious.”

The Enquirer, however, is now not only insisting its article is accurate, but also challenging Culkin to prove his sobriety with a drug test.

“Our advice to Macaulay is to seek professional help to avoid the same tragic fate of other beloved celebrities, including Whitney Houston who died earlier this year,” the magazine says in a statement posted on its website.

FULL STATEMENT BELOW

The tabloid adds, “Should Macaulay’s representatives continue to deny the Enquirer’s accurate and detailed report, we are ready to offer him the opportunity to take a blood test administered by an independent medical lab.”

“The Enquirer editors would hate to see Macaulay end up like Whitney,” says the magazine in its statement.

Gossip Cop has reached out to Culkin’s rep for a response to the Enquirer’s statement, but has yet to hear back.

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NATIONAL ENQUIRER’S STATEMENT:

The NATIONAL ENQUIRER hopes the cover story on its latest issue, “Home Alone’ star Macaulay Culkin Addicted To Heroin – Only 6 Months To Live!” will act as a dramatic and much-needed wake-up call to the  31-year-old actor.

Our advice to Macaulay is to seek professional help to avoid the same tragic fate of other beloved celebrities, including Whitney Houston who died earlier this year.

We believe that the former child star should be doing everything he can to get the treatment he so desperately needs – and which could have saved the life of his friend Elijah Rosello.

Her family confirmed to The ENQUIRER that she did drugs with Macaulay before her drug-related death in March.

Should Macaulay’s representatives continue to deny The ENQUIRER’s accurate and detailed report, we are ready to offer him the opportunity to take a blood test administered by an independent medical lab.

It is a fact that as The ENQUIRER tracked Whitney Houston’s descent into her drug hell, she refused to admit she had a problem – and Whitney was represented by some of those people now denying Macaulay’s potentially deadly problems.

The ENQUIRER editors would hate to see Macaulay end up like Whitney.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Malcolm-Kyle/100001700224506 Malcolm Kyle

    An appeal to all Prohibitionists:

    Most of us know that individuals who use illegal drugs are going to get high—no matter what, so why do you not prefer they acquire them in stores that check IDs and pay taxes? Gifting the market in narcotics to ruthless criminals, foreign terrorists, and corrupt law enforcement officials is seriously compromising our future.

    Why do you wish to continue with a policy that has proven itself to be a poison in the veins of our once so “proud & free” nation? Even if you cannot bear the thought of people using drugs, there is absolutely nothing you, or any government, can do to stop them. We have spent 40 years and trillions of dollars on this dangerous farce; Prohibition will not suddenly and miraculously start showing different results. Do you actually believe you may personally have something to lose If we were to begin basing our drug policy on science & logic instead of ignorance, hate and lies?

    Maybe you’re a police officer, a prison guard, or a local/national politician. Possibly you’re scared of losing employment, overtime pay, the many kickbacks, and those regular fat bribes. But what good will any of that do you once our society has followed Mexico over the dystopian abyss of dismembered bodies, vats of acid, and marauding thugs carrying gold-plated AK-47s with leopard-skinned gunstocks?

    Kindly allow us to forgo the next level of your sycophantic prohibition-engendered mayhem.

    Prohibition prevents regulation: legalize, regulate, and tax!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Martina-Gunarova/100002916294918 Martina Gunarova

    To be quite honest……he does look like an ill person…..

  • Me

    He doesn’t look well in that pic, but that doesn’t make him a drug addict.

  • guest

    I have to agree that he does look quite ill.There is a difference between being naturally slim and what MacCaulay Culkin looks like.If it isn`t drugs then he has a catastrophic illness.Whitney Houston got scary skinny a few years ago and also denied any problem.

  • right.

    true or not, I’d like to know where they got the “6 months to live” prediction?

  • Anonymous

    Plenty of unflattering pictures of celebs that they can use to claim one thing or another. Always curious why celebs don’t sue especially if the crap is all lies.

  • Can’t Afford to Judge Enquirer

    National Enquirer needs to butt out of people’s lives. I just wish that these tabloids would just disappear from the face of the earth. So what if he is on drugs? That’s none of National Enquirer’s business or anyone else. If he is, he won’t be the first or the last. That stupid tabloid needs to straighten out their own trashy tabloid instead of jumping on these celebs all the time..

  • Can’t Afford to Judge Enquirer

    You haven’t learned that the paps take pics and make them look the way that they want by photoshopping, taking them at certain gestures and facial expressions, and by taking pics from an unflattering angle/position. That pic from the N E, a tabloid which isn’t very credible, cannot be trusted because of their reputation.

  • Can’t Afford to Judge Enquirer

    I had to laugh. Since when did National Enquirer care about anybody ending up in anyway, as along as they get their fabricated stories and none investigated stories that others give them that are obviously untrue published. Since when do they care about Whitney Houston, when they published a pic of her in her casket when they weren’t suppose to do so. If National Enquirer so care about people, then what they should do is disappear from the face of this earth.

  • http://societyfordaintydamsels.com/ Fennel

    Wowie what a reliable source. The National Enquirer As cheap trashy tabloid. Please see “Can’t afford to judge Enquirer for more pertinent information.

  • gandalf the grey

    John Edwards. ‘Nuff said.

  • Diane

    even a blind bat can get lucky once. most of their crap is still crap.

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