Brenda Song opens up about how she and partner Macaulay Culkin have “certain trauma that we both share”
In an interview on the podcast ‘Sibling Revelry’, Brenda Song discussed her relationship with fiancé Macaulay Culkin.
Brenda Song says she and fiancé Macaulay Culkin were brought closer together by their shared experience of being former child screen stars.
Song, 36, opened up about her relationship with Culkin, 44, during a two-part interview this month on Kate and Oliver Hudson’s podcast Sibling Revelry.
Looking back on when she and Culkin began dating in 2017, after the actors got to know each other on the set of the film Changeling, Song told Sibling Revelry that the pair bonded over a tacit appreciation of the challenges they have both faced in adulthood after finding fame as child actors.
“We’ve had certain trauma that we both share”
“It wasn’t one of the first things we connected on,” Song said, “but I think there was this unspoken understanding that we’ve had certain trauma that we both share, that we didn’t even quite realize ‘oh, this stems from us being child actors.’
“Certain anxieties or stressors or even triggers that you don’t realize as a kid how much that affects you as an adult.”
Culkin was catapulted to global stardom as the 10-year-old star of the 1990 smash hit Home Alone, before also appearing in the 1992 sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.
Song, meanwhile, featured in a host of Nickelodeon and Disney Channel productions as a child in the 1990s and 2000s, having additionally worked as a fashion model as a young girl.
Culkin “gets what I do”
During her interview on Sibling Revelry, Song revealed that Culkin is the first fellow actor she has ever dated - and that she revels in his deep appreciation of what her profession is all about.
“He gets what I do on a different level,” she said, noting: “It’s been really nice to have someone who truly just really understands.”
“Of course I want to be married to him”
A couple who share two children, Song and Culkin have been engaged since 2022, but simply “haven’t had the time” to plan a wedding, she told Sibling Revelry.
Song added that they remain in no rush to formalize their union with a “piece of paper”, arguing that marriage won’t change their relationship.
“You choose to show up every single day, and that’s what we do,” she said. “It’s like, for us, if we were to get married, it’d be more just for the kids. Like, of course, I want to be married to him. I love him. He’s my partner. He knows that.
“But a piece of paper is not going to change that for us. If anything, it’s a reason to have a party and to have all of our friends over and to celebrate.”
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