Details about Rob Reiner’s friend staying at home with Nick Reiner and family weeks before murder
New light is being shed on the relationship between Rob Reiner and Michelle Singer Reiner and their son Nick Reiner.
Cinematographer Barry Markowitz said Rob, 78, and Michelle, 70, had been staying at their Los Angeles home with their families in the weeks before their bodies were found inside the mansion. He said Nick, who is accused of murdering his parents, had struggled with addiction for years but appeared to be “in recovery.”
“He was so great,” Barry said in an interview published Dec. 16. “He helped out, took out the trash, watched TV, and washed the dishes.”
The director continued, “In that sense, he was a normal person.”
Barry, who was in Los Angeles for work in November, stayed with the Reiners, adding that the time he spent under their roof was “a big love fest.”
“They eat dinner together,” he said of the family. “Lots of love, always lots of love.”
That’s why Barry, who co-starred in Rob and Nick’s 2015 autobiographical film Being Charlie, about their troubled past, is upset by recent reports of tensions between father and son.
