Rob Reiner's Son Nick 'Destroyed' His Parents' House on Meth 8 Years Before Their Murders
- - Rob Reiner's Son Nick 'Destroyed' His Parents' House on Meth 8 Years Before Their Murders
Julia MooreDecember 16, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Director Rob Reiner and his son Nick Reiner attend AOL Build Presents: "Being Charlie" at AOL Studios In New York on May 4, 2016 -
Rob and Michele Singer Reiner were found dead at their L.A. home on Dec. 14 and their son Nick was taken into custody and has been booked for murder, per the LAPD
Years before their deaths, Nick said on a podcast episode that he had once "wrecked" his parents' guest house when he was "spun out" on drugs
Nick, now 32, began struggling with drug addiction when he was a teen and was in and out of rehab until he was 19 years old
Nearly a decade before he was charged in their murders, Rob and Michele Singer Reiner's son Nick once admitted to destroying his parents' guest house while on meth.
Nick was taken into custody and charged with murder following the deaths of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, on Sunday, Dec. 14. He is being held without bail, according to a Los Angeles Police Department press release.
At an unrelated press conference Monday morning, LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell said Nick had been booked for murder.
On a 2018 episode of the Dopey podcast, Nick, 32, recalled a time eight years ago when he was "totally spun out on uppers" and destroyed his parents' guest house.
When one of the podcast hosts asked him about the time he "got sequestered in his parents' guest house" and then "wrecked the guest house on meth," Nick replied, “Yeah, I went 10 rounds in my guest house."
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Michele Reiner, Rob Reiner, Jake Reiner, Romy Reiner and Nick Reiner attend the 41st Chaplin Award Gala honouring Rob Reiner in 2014
“It’s not much of a story. I got totally spun out on uppers — I think it was coke and something else — and I was up for days on end," Nick recalled in the 2018 episode. "I started punching out different things in my guest house.”
He said he "started with the TV and then I went over to the lamp," and eventually "everything in the guest house got wrecked."
He said he didn't "even remember" if he hurt himself during the incident, and when asked if there was "any logic at all that you can remember" to his behavior, Nick said he was in a state where he was "crazy" and there was "no logic" to his actions.
He did say, though, that his parents had "told me I had to go," prior to the incident.
Nick began struggling with drug addiction when he was a teen and was in and out of rehab until he was 19 years old. He and his dad collaborated on a movie about his difficulties, Being Charlie, which not only explored the complicated dynamics between a famous father and his son struggling with addiction, but also the reservations Nick had about rehabilitation facilities.
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Following the news of Rob and Michele's deaths at 78 and 68, respectively, multiple sources told PEOPLE that it was Nick who had killed them — and that their daughter Romy found them.
The couple's family confirmed their "tragic" deaths in a statement to Variety: "We are heartbroken by this sudden loss, and we ask for privacy during this unbelievably difficult time."
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Jake Reiner, Nick Reiner, Romy Reiner, Michele Singer Reiner and Rob Reiner attend Four Sixes Ranch Steakhouse pop-up grand opening at Wynn Las Vegas on September 14, 2024
Along with Nick and Romy, Rob and Michele — who got married in 1989 — also shared son Jake.
Rob was also dad to daughter Tracy, whom he adopted when he was married to Penny Marshall. (Tracy's biological father is Marshall's late first husband, Michael Henry.)
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