India, Dec. 19 -- Macaulay Culkin has revealed that one powerful word was largely missing from his childhood - "proud." Despite massive success as a child actor, he said emotional reassurance was rare at home.

Speaking on the December 16 episode of YouTube's Mythical Kitchen, the Home Alone star said, "There's a word that I use in my household because it's something that I didn't really hear enough of when I was a kid, and that's 'proud.'"

Culkin, who had a difficult relationship with his father, Christopher "Kit" Culkin, added that even during the peak of his career, he "never got the 'P word'" from his parents.

The actor explained that the absence of encouragement shaped how he parents today. "Man, I'm proud of my kids," Culkin said,...