{"id":828385,"date":"2026-08-28T06:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/828385\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T06:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:54:13","slug":"jake-reiner-says-he-hasnt-spoken-to-his-brother-as-he-opens-up-about-grief-after-parents-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/828385\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Reiner says he hasn\u2019t spoken to his brother as he opens up about grief after parents\u2019 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been eight months since beloved Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were killed and their son Nick Reiner was arrested in their deaths. <\/p>\n

But for Jake Reiner, the couple\u2019s 35-year-old son, the nightmare feels like \u201ceight years at the same time, and it also feels like eight minutes,\u201d he told KABC-TV of Los Angeles <\/a>in his first sit-down interview since the family tragedy. <\/p>\n

\u201cEvery moment that I wake up, I\u2019m reminded of my reality, and you\u2019re living through that every single day,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Jake said he hasn\u2019t spoken to his brother. Nor has he attended any of his brother\u2019s court hearings, the station reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s in jail, so, you know, it\u2019s like I physically lost my parents and then Nick was arrested. And it\u2019s like now, it\u2019s just me and Romy,\u201d he said, referring to his 28-year-old sister.<\/p>\n

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Jake opened up to KABC in the interview, which aired Thursday, about navigating grief and how it can manifest into anger. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll never understand. I don\u2019t care how it\u2019s explained to me. I don\u2019t care what facts come out. I will never understand why this happened,\u201d he told the station. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt manifests into rage, into how unfair this was. How I didn\u2019t get a say in what happened. I didn\u2019t get to stop it from happening. I had no choice in the matter, and I just have to accept the reality of it. And to me that is just one of the most infuriating parts of all this,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\"ReinerHonoree Rob Reiner poses with his family at the Chaplin Award Gala in New York in April 2014.Michael Loccisano \/ Getty Images file<\/p>\n

Rob Reiner, 78, and Michele Singer Reiner, 70, were found brutally stabbed in their home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles on Dec. 14. Nick was arrested hours later. <\/p>\n

Jake was at Los Angeles\u2019 Union Station for a celebration of life event for a friend when his sister called. He didn\u2019t pick up.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe called immediately again, and I knew at that point something immediately was wrong. Romy told me our dad was dead, and then she said, \u2018I can\u2019t find Mom.\u2019 And I immediately went into shock. I need to get out of this train station, and I need to get to my parents\u2019 house,\u201d he recalled. <\/p>\n

Asked whether he was surprised to learn that his brother was the main suspect, Jake took a deep breath and said, \u201cI feel like that\u2019s something I don\u2019t really want to answer right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

In April, Jake wrote about his heartbreak on Substack<\/a>, saying, \u201cWe lost more than half of our family that night in the most violent way imaginable.\u201d He affirmed that that included Nick. <\/p>\n

\"JakeJake Reiner and Rob Reiner at the Beverly Hills Film Festival in Los Angeles on May 3, 2024.Paul Archuleta \/ Getty Images file<\/p>\n

Nick Reiner, 32, has a long history of drug addiction <\/a>and has struggled with his mental health. He co-wrote the 2016 movie \u201cBeing Charlie\u201d with his father, who directed it, about the experiences of a young man who struggles with recovery.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can tell you, they never stopped wanting to help him. They never stopped helping him,\u201d Jake said of his parents\u2019 supporting Nick. \u201cAnd I think that project was a way for my dad to try and connect with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked whether it was ever a fear that something like the murders could ever happen, Jake declined to answer.<\/p>\n

Now his focus is on following in his parents\u2019 footsteps working with the Children\u2019s Institute, an organization that supports children and families. He\u2019ll be at its gala in November.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be hard. I think everything that we\u2019ve done so far without them has been hard and weird. But I do feel responsible for making sure people know them and they remember them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"US-PEOPLE-CRIME-TRIAL-REINER\"Nick Reiner at his arraignment in Los Angeles County Superior Court in February.Chris Torres \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Nick Reiner has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder in connection<\/a> with special circumstance allegations of multiple murders and lying in wait. His case continues in court. Earlier this summer, he filed a petition seeking access to his more than $1.5 million trust fund<\/a> to help pay for his defense.<\/p>\n

KABC reported that Jake Reiner isn\u2019t commenting about his brother\u2019s attempts to access money from the trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been eight months since beloved Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-828385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}