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.
Nick appeared in court recently and was wearing a suicide prevention smock. He waved his right to a speedy arraignment and it will be pushed until next month:
I’m watching the DVD of A Few Good Men and listening to Rob Reiner’s commentary. At one point during a softball practice scene, he notes that the thing he remembered most about it was that he had taken his six month old firstborn son to the set for the day. Yikes, I thought. But I looked it up and Nick hadn’t been born yet.
I think we’ll find that a lot of innocent moments will be somewhat jarring in hindsight.
I was listening to a “best of” episode of a podcast and the segment had a moment when they were like “when Rob Reiner was here, he said…” and it was so jarring and I think completely coincidental. I’m sure that episode was in the can weeks ago just to throw something out during the holidays. It’s so sad.
Not related to you, but I’ve noticed a lot of AI generated crap related to Rob and Nick lately on YouTube, telling people juicy gossip and out right falsehoods. Is the the future of tragedy where bad actors generate fake content for clicks in order to profit off of other people’s misfortune? Ack!
Not the future, alas.
AI is just doing what news bringers and just plain gossip has done since the dawn of man.
The e.g. National Enquirer has been teasing Elvis’s grieving relatives for how long now?
AI clickbait is not at all a new idea. Just a power tool chain saw used where a hand saw had to make do before.
Maybe he got both the sex and the age wrong and somebody mushed together two incidents. His first wife, Penny Marshall, had a daughter, Tracy, from a previous marriage. Rob Reiner adopted her when he married Penny Marshall. Tracy was probably 24 when When Harry Met Sally was shot. Maybe Rob Reiner invited her to the set. Maybe he brought his son Jake to the set of one of his later movies as a child. Maybe the claim that he brought Jake to the set comes from what he said in an interview. Maybe the interviewer got the two incidents mushed together because they didn’t understand what Rob Reiner was saying because he was talking fast and the interviewer kept sloppy notes.
Or maybe he just remembered wrong, memory being what it is.
Interviewer? @Stephe96 was describing Rob Reiner’s commentary track from the DVD of A Few Good Men.
He was obviously talking about Jake, who was born May 2, 1991. The movie came out in 1992.