EXCLUSIVE: ROB AND MICHELE REINER WOULD HAVE FORGIVEN THEIR SON, EVEN AS HE STRUGGLED UNDER FAMILY LEGACY, FRIENDS SAY
Naughty But Nice with Rob Shuter
iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In the wake of the devastating deaths of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, family friends paint a heartbreaking portrait of two parents defined by unconditional love. Sources tell me the couple would have forgiven their son Nick “one hundred percent, without question,” even in the face of the unthinkable. At the same time, insiders say Nick long felt crushed by the weight of the Reiner name, resentful of living in the shadow of both his legendary father and grandfather, Carl Reiner. Close friend Maria Shriver echoed that complexity in an emotional tribute, remembering Rob and Michele as parents who “never stopped trying to be great,” no matter how difficult the journey became
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:18.3 | Hello, lo, lo, la, la, hello. |
| 0:20.4 | Welcome to the naughty but nice show. I'm your host, Rob Schueter. And it is Tuesday, which means a dear friend. Delana Dixon joins us. Hey, Miss D. Are you there? I am, and it seems we've finally got snow here in New York. It's crazy. It's lovely, isn't it? I love looking at. I'm quite high up. I'm on the |
| 0:39.3 | 15th floor. And so it feels like I'm in a snow glow. I'm upstairs and the snow's |
| 0:43.9 | whishing around my windows. It's beautiful. Yes. Well, I was in Kentucky for a few days and it |
| 0:50.3 | actually snowed there. So that was the first place that I saw snow for the season. And then I came back here and it was snowy as well. So it's just been a snowy weekend into the snowy week for me. Good for you. You're bringing it with you. Okay, let's jump into our show. What time is it, my friends, it is? Tea time. Massive story today is Rob Reiner and his wife, Michelle. Most of the show today, in fact, all the show is going to focus on this tragedy. It's an absolute tragedy. I want to make sure we get the tone right here. Delana and I are devastated. Let's just put that up front. This is something that is unimaginable, not only the death, but who may have indeed murdered them. |
| 1:31.2 | We're going to try and bring you as all the information today, so you won't have to go anywhere else for this story. |
| 1:36.8 | So Rob Reiner and his wife would want us to forgive their silence. |
| 1:41.1 | It's controversial. |
| 1:42.1 | I wanted to do this as the lead story. |
| 1:44.1 | I've known this family for a while. I wanted to do this as the lead story. I've known |
| 1:44.6 | this family for a while. Rob was always very, very kind to me. Well, I spoke to family friends |
| 1:50.5 | yesterday and they said forgiveness was a huge deal for Rob and his wife, Michelle. And they would want |
| 1:58.1 | us, in their opinion, this is a family insider. They would want us to forgive him for this. |
| 2:04.0 | 100% without question. He was a very, very troubled, not so young man. We keep saying son, obviously he was his son, |
| 2:11.8 | but he was in his 30s. He had struggled all his life, mental health issues, substance issues, |
| 2:17.4 | but he also, too, |
| 2:18.6 | had this incredible life of privilege. He never really had to work a day in his life. He didn't |
| 2:23.3 | pay really any of his bills. All his medication, all his many, many trips to rehab were covered |
| 2:29.9 | by his parents' fortune. And if indeed it turns out, and everything, let's be honest, looks as if it was him. |
| 2:37.2 | All the indications are pointing towards the sun this gruesome, ugly, terrifying death. |
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