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"Macaulay Culkin was spotted out and about in New York wearing a pair of paint-splattered jeans.  The 32-year-old star appeared much healthier than earlier in the year when he was photographed looking gaunt and frail while sipping from a can of Red Bull and smoking a cigarette.   It was recently alleged that the actor is addicted to heroin and prescription painkiller oxycodone, which Culkin&amp;#039;s representative has since vehemently denied, adding: &amp;quot;[The story] is not only categorically without merit, but it is also impossibly and ridiculously fictitious. &amp;quot;We beseech the responsible media to consider the source and its reputation and to please not perpetuate this destructive and insulting story by pursuing it any further.&amp;quot; Culkin&amp;#039;s father and stepmother also voiced their concerns over his reported drug abuse, with the latter saying: &amp;quot;Oh no, this is not good. Either he&amp;#039;s dying of some disease or he&amp;#039;s heavily into drugs.  &amp;quot;Now we&amp;#039;re hearing he is denying the allegations - but it certainly looks like he is on drugs. He looks awful. There will always be a sadness in Kit that I can&amp;#039;t fix. Our house is always open to Kit&amp;#039;s children. Kit still loves him and all of his family.&amp;quot; Culkin split from actress Mila Kunis in January last year after eight years together, with Kunis currently dating actor Ashton Kutcher. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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