Macaulay Culkin: 'I go out at 2am to avoid being recognised – I’m essentially retired'

Macaulay Culkin has admitted that he prefers to go for walks in the middle of the night to avoid getting recognised.

The former child star, who has kept a low profile in recent years, says that he usually leaves the house around 2am as there is ‘nobody’ on the streets.

Admitting that he is ‘essentially retired', the 32-year-old Home Alone star has no plans to return to film or television.

Speaking to New York Magazine, he said: “I’ll take walks at two or four in the morning, because there’s nobody out on the streets and it’s easy for me to go unnoticed.

“I’m a man in his mid-30s who’s essentially retired. I kind of go where the wind takes me a little bit.”

Culkin, who splits his time between New York and France, admitted that he likes to spend his days painting, writing and ‘whatevering’.

The star still gets recognised when he’s in France, but claims that he doesn’t get stopped or hassled in the same way.

He said: “It turned out that no, they recognized me, they just didn’t care. I was like, "where have you people been my entire life?”