Conan O’Brien “was in shock for fairly some time after” Rob and Michele Reiner’s deaths.
Conan O’Brien breaks silence on Rob Reiner’s surprising dying
The When Harry Met Sally filmmaker and his photographer-producer spouse attended Conan’s vacation occasion with their son Nick in Los Angeles on December 13 simply hours earlier than Rob and Michele had been discovered useless at their residence.
Nick was later arrested charged with two counts of first-degree homicide and Conan, 62, admitted he has struggled to return to phrases with the tragedy.
He instructed The New Yorker: “I knew Rob and Michele, after which more and more acquired nearer and nearer to them. We [he and his wife, Liza Powel O’Brien] had been seeing them rather a lot.
“They had been simply such beautiful folks. And to have that have of claiming good night time to any individual and having them go away after which discover out the following day that they’re gone… I believe I used to be in shock for fairly some time afterward. I imply, there’s no different phrase for it.
“It’s simply so terrible. And I take into consideration how Rob felt about issues which can be occurring within the nation, how concerned he was, how a lot he put himself on the market – and to have that voice go quiet right away remains to be laborious for me to grasp.”
Conan went on to reward 78-year-old Rob’s work as a director – which included classics reminiscent of When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Males, Spinal Faucet and The Princess Bride.
He stated: “It’s an nearly inconceivable feat [to make seven movies in roughly a decade] which can be classics… With Spinal Faucet alone, if that’d been the one factor he ever did, he influenced my technology enormously. Spinal Faucet – when it got here out, I used to be in faculty, and it was like a splitting-the-atom second.”
It was beforehand claimed that Rob and Nick reportedly acquired right into a heated argument at Conan’s occasion.
One supply instructed PEOPLE: “Nick was freaking everybody out, performing loopy, stored asking folks in the event that they had been well-known.”
Rob and his spouse left the star-studded occasion following the argument, TMZ reported.
It was additionally reported that Nick stays alone in his cell always and is served three meals a day in confinement. He’s reportedly not allowed to speak with anybody aside from his authorized group and jail personnel.
A supply instructed PEOPLE: “That is vital in order that nobody compromises this high-profile case, and in order that no civilian or inmate can ask him questions, reminiscent of why he killed his mother and father.”
