When Harry Met Sally director, Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead at their home in Los Angeles with ‘stab wounds in a horror double murder’
After the tragic news of the death of Rob Reiner and his wife broke this morning, the couple’s son, Nick, has been arrested. Hollywood is in mourning after it was announced that the When Harry Met Sally director and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, had been found dead at their home in Los Angeles.
The bodies of Rob, 78, and his 68-year-old wife were discovered at their property in Brentwood on Sunday with Los Angeles Police confirming they are investigating an “apparent homicide.” Nick, 32, was taken into custody by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department at around 5:46am PST on Monday. He is being held on $4million bail in connection with the murder of his parents, records obtained by the Mirror have revealed.
He was arrested on Sunday at 21:15 local time and booked the following morning. Here’s all we know about Rob’s second son, who had been battling a drug addiction and homelessness in what he says was a “very dark time”…
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Battle with drug addiction
Rob and Michele’s second son, Nick, had opened up about his battle with substance abuse issues in the past, which started in his teens. He entered rehab for the first time around his 15th birthday magazine and had already completed more than a dozen stays in rehabilitation facilities by 2016.
In an interview with Parade magazine in 2016, Nick revealed that he was sent to his first rehab when he was still a teenager, beginning what would become a long and difficult cycle of treatment attempts.
By the time he was 22, he said he had been through 17 rehab stays, experiences that later helped shape the semi-autobiographical film Being Charlie, which he co-wrote and which was directed by his father.
Ending up homeless
Nick claimed that his homelessness was a result of choosing not to return to rehab. “If I wanted to do it my way and not go to the programs they were suggesting, then I had to be homeless,” he said.
Claiming he spent many nights on the streets, he told People magazine: “I was homeless in Maine. I was homeless in New Jersey. I was homeless in Texas. I spent nights on the street. I spent weeks on the street. It was not fun.”
Made a film with his dad
Attempting to channel his recovery into a creative project, Nick co-wrote a film, directed by his dad, loosely based on his experience of addiction and homelessness.
After leaving his last rehab facility at 19, the filmmaker stated that he had been working on the film Being Charlie, writing other projects, and trying to stay clean so that he would never have to return to the streets again.
“When I was out there, I could’ve died. It’s all luck. You roll the dice and you hope you make it,” Nick said.
‘A lot of dark years’
Nick claimed that the creative experience with his dad proved valuable, not just in writing the film. “That made me who I am now, having to deal with that stuff. I met crazy great people there, so out of my element.”
Being Charlie was released on May 6, 2015, and at the time, Nick said his priority was remaining sober so that he would never return to the streets again.
Admitting to a “lot of dark years”, he concluded: “Now, I’ve been home for a really long time, and I’ve sort of gotten acclimated back to being in L.A. and being around my family. But there was a lot of dark years there.”
Source: Mirror
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