The New York Times reported<\/a> Thursday, Jan. 15, that Nick, now 32, entered into a mental health conservatorship in 2020 that ended in 2021. Anonymous sources also told the outlet that Nick had previously been diagnosed with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder, and that he struggled in the weeks leading up to his parents’ killings after switching his medication.<\/p>\n The change in medication was due to side effects about one month before his arrest, the Times reported. Multiple outlets reported in December that Nick was being treated for schizophrenia<\/a>.<\/p>\n PEOPLE reached out to a rep for the Reiner family for comment.<\/p>\n Psychiatrist\u00a0Dr. Molly \u201cMary\u201d Conlon<\/a>, who oversees the inpatient program at Northwell Health\u2019s Zucker Hillside Hospital, previously told PEOPLE that “medication changes are common<\/a> and can take place for many reasons, to help reduce certain side effects or to help improve effectiveness or efficacy.”<\/p>\n Conlon, who is not affiliated with the Reiner case, said it is “important that \u2014 when medications are being changed or tapered down \u2014 people are closely monitored because it could be a time when potentially the individual could be more vulnerable to a symptom recurrence or worsening.”<\/p>\n Denise Truscello\/Getty<\/p>\n Jake, Nick, Romy, Michele and Rob Reiner on Sept. 14, 2024<\/p>\n Rob, 78, and Michele, 70, were found dead inside their Los Angeles home<\/a> on Dec. 14. Nick was arrested that night and charged with two counts of first-degree murder in connection with their deaths.<\/p>\n “Words cannot even begin to describe the unimaginable pain we are experiencing every moment of the day,” Rob and Michele’s kids Jake, 34, and Romy, 28, said in a statement Dec. 17, speaking out about the “horrific and devastating loss of our parents.”<\/p>\n At a court hearing Jan. 7, attorney\u00a0Alan Jackson<\/a> announced he was withdrawing from the case and that Nick will now be represented by a public defender, Kimberly Greene. Jackson told reporters in a press conference that day<\/a>, \u201cNick Reiner is not guilty of murder. Print that.”<\/p>\n After his arrest, Nick was initially placed on suicide watch while being held inside a high-observation mental health unit at Twin Towers Correctional Facility<\/a> in downtown Los Angeles.<\/p>\n Nick and his parents previously spoke candidly about Nick’s troubled years struggling<\/a> with drug addiction.<\/p>\n
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