Rob Reiner made a chilling comment about his son Nick in a “jarring” interview a decade before his murder.
The Hollywood Reporter’s Steven Zeitchik reflected on his “painful” sit down with the couple, their daughter Romy and son Nick — who has been accused of his parents’ murders — and highlighted one specifically chilling moment.
On Monday, the journalist remembered Rob getting emotional discussing Nick’s “very hard” struggles with drug addiction, which was documented in the semi-autobiographical film “Being Charlie.”
At the time, Rob said, “The number one job of any parent is to keep their child safe. And I hadn’t done that.
“And now here I have done that,” he continued. “I kept him safe. He came out alive.”
Zeitchik noted, “Here in 2025, the words kept ricocheting through my brain. Yes, Nick had come out alive. It was Rob that hadn’t.”
Rob and Michele, notably, were found stabbed to death in their Brentwood, Calif., home on Sunday.
Nick was arrested on murder charges and is currently being held in Los Angeles’ Twin Towers Correctional Facility without bail.
The 32-year-old is currently on suicide watch.
The suspect left behind a grisly hotel room scene at the Pierside Santa Monica, according to TMZ.
The outlet claimed the shower was “full of blood.”
Blood was also on the bedsheets.
Zeitchik shed light on Nick’s complicated dynamic in Monday’s article — but denied there was any “dark foreshadow-y Easter egg” pointing to Rob and Michele’s demise.
Acknowledging that the “jarring” chat did feel “deeply uneasy,” Zeitchik claimed Rob was clearly “helpless” and “trying to will his son into someone he couldn’t be.”
The reporter felt Rob was “pushing harder than matters should be pushed” and laid out the director’s “missteps as a parent.”
He wrote, “Here was the nation’s storyteller-in-chief, unable to finish the tale how he wanted. Characters reject our keystrokes. We are all agents in our own story but not authors of it. Even the man who shaped some of the best couldn’t be an author of it.”
We hear that Nick “really resented” his father.
“He hated himself for not being as talented, prolific or beloved as his dad or grandad,” a source told Page Six on Monday.
In addition to Nick and Romy, Rob was the father of son Jake, as well as 61-year-old daughter Tracy from his first marriage.
