(CNN) Macaulay Culkin understands the curiosity about his friendship with Michael Jackson, but he insists it was pretty normal.

On an episode of the " Inside of You With Michael Rosenbaum" podcast released Tuesday, Culkin talked about how the "King of Pop" took him under his wing when the actor was a child star.

He said Jackson reached out to him in the early 1990s because the singer could relate to Culkin, who found fame at age 10 by starring in the movie "Home Alone." Jackson himself became famous as a child fronting the Jackson 5.

"I mean, at the end of the day, it's almost easy to try say it was like weird or whatever, but it wasn't, because it made sense," Culkin said. "At the end of the day, we were friends."

There was a 22-year age gap between the pair at the time, and the friendship has been of interest to fans over the years, especially after Jackson stood trial in 2005 on charges tied to allegations he molested a 13-year-old boy he had befriended.

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