Ouch, keeping Nick out of jail must haunt him.
Perhaps a nights separation might have cooled things off enough to avoid tragedy.
The volatile atmosphere wasn’t going to go away. Predicting when it explodes is almost impossible.
I grew up with a brother who suffered from a severe form of paranoid schizophrenia.
My family lived in fear from his unpredictable violence/rage.
Drugs made it worse.
Delusions and sometimes drugs increased the risk.
He tried to kill me several times.
Attacked my father often.
He finally died violently by slicing himself with a knife in my father’s basement.
I imagine the Reiners lived with unimaginable fear.
And helplessness in the face of such erratic behavior.
Maybe but also could have ended up with his friends son shot dead by police. That would be my overriding concern in this situation. I don’t know if thats what Conan was thinking of (and I don’t know what the alternative would be that would protect his parents but not put him at risk of police violence)
Very sorry to hear you had to go through this.
And sorry for the Reiner family for suffering through so many years of pain and to have it end so tragically.
You know, this story rattled me, and I realized that I cared about Rob Reiner more than I realized…
But you deserve a rimshot for that!
And Ellecram, my best buddy in high school was schizo-effective (his term) and he tried twice to do what you spoke of. Both times quite ugly, and unsuccessful.
But I do appreciate gallows humor.
I understand gallows humor.
and thrive on it.
Goddamn. Not only is it horribly tragic that a young mentally ill man killed his parents. But then it’s Rob Reiner … like, why Rob Reiner, you know, just sucks … and now two of my favorite celebrities - and it’s not like I’m leafing through US magazine on the daily, these just seem like two really cool people - Conan O’Brien and Bill Hader are suffering more than they should as well.
This whole story makes me incredibly depressed.
It’s very sad all the way around, Conan had a party to put the ugliness of 2025 behind them all and the sadness came as a guest. The murders are awful, the suffering of the son is awful, the guilt of the friends and family who didn’t know what to do is awful; the hateful comments from the president and his supporters is awful. It’s just awful and sad and then awful some more.