Nick Reiner, son of director Rob Reiner and actress Michele Singer accused of murdering his parents, spoke about the challenges of drug addiction and the difficulties in his relationship with the couple in a podcast that was picked up on social media after the murders of the two artists.
The crime happened that Sunday and Nick was arrested a few hours later. He will face two counts of first degree murder, with premeditation and clear intent to kill.
Hosted by Dave Manheim, the “Dopey” program has interviewed names such as actress Jamie Lee Curtis and actor Marc Maron and focuses on stories of addiction and overcoming. Nick has given several interviews to the podcast in recent years and, after the deaths, “Dopey Emergency Episode: The Reiner Family Tragedy” was released, which recovers excerpts from old chapters and depicts the troubled trajectory of the son of the American filmmaker.
One of the fragments contains a conversation in which Nick describes having “ten fights with his parents’ guest house”, during which he destroyed part of the property at the same time as he suffered a heart attack due to drug addiction.
“I got completely drugged up on stimulants, I think it was cocaine and something else, and I was awake for days. I started breaking a lot of things in the guest house. I think I started with a television, then moved to a lamp, and then it got worse. Everything was destroyed,” he says.
Nick even said he was crazy, without any logical reasoning, when this happened. According to him, the destruction began when Rob Reiner and Michele Singer told him he would have to leave the guest house because of his drug addiction.
Another clip from the episode concerns Nick’s 14th birthday. He recounts the time he allegedly stole $200 to ask a prostitute to take his virginity while he was under the influence of edible substances. Nick also describes the sexual encounter in detail in this conversation.
The passage in which Nick Reiner describes the state he found himself in during the publicity tour for “Being Charlie”, a film directed by Rob Reiner, released ten years ago, which depicts a young man’s struggle with drug addiction, is not enough. According to Nick, he was not sober while filming the film he wrote with his father, although he was not, in his words, under the influence of heavy substances.
“I told them ‘look, I’m not in a position to do this, I’m not, let’s say, a sober guy,'” Nick said in an interview with the podcast. “I’m going to have to go on these talk shows. They say ‘you have to do what they want, this whole father and son thing’. That shows how disgusting it is. I went on there and realized ‘look, I have a voice, to a certain extent, I’m going to say what I have to say while I’m here’.”
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