CULKIN: 'IT'S BEEN ROUGH SINCE DAKOTA'S DEATH'

Culkin's 29 year old sister was struck by a car and killed in Los Angeles in December (08).

The family was left crushed by the tragedy, and Culkin admits there were days when he pondered giving up life in the spotlight to cope with his grief.

But he decided to plough on with the promotion of forthcoming movie Lymelife to get him through the tough times.

He tells Interview magazine, "It's been a rough couple of months. I won't speak for anyone else, but I'm doing okay.

"That's the point of doing this interview and stuff. For a little while there, I wasn't going to do any press. I wasn't going to do Sundance. This was all a sort of getting-out-of-bed-and-start-walking thing.