Acclaimed director Rob Reiner had spoken about his son Nick’s restoration from habit and shared how nicely he was doing in September — simply months earlier than Nick was taken into custody and booked for homicide after his mother and father’ our bodies had been discovered with stab wounds of their Los Angeles dwelling.
“He’s been great,” Reiner mentioned throughout an look on NPR’s “Fresh Air” with Terry Gross.
The director added that Nick “hasn’t been doing drugs for over six years.”
“He’s in a really good place,” Reiner shared on the time.
In the course of the sit-down, Gross additionally requested Reiner a few film he collaborated on with Nick, known as “Being Charlie.” Nick Reiner co-wrote the screenplay based mostly on his personal experiences with habit and homelessness, whereas Rob Reiner directed the movie.
Laura Cavanaugh by way of Getty Photos
Gross requested Reiner if he was something just like the fictional dad within the movie, who struggled balancing his personal profession ambitions with getting his son assist.
“I was never, ever too busy,” Reiner instructed Gross. “I mean, if anything, I was the other way, you know, I was more hands-on and trying to do whatever I thought I could do to help. I’m sure I made mistakes and, you know, I’ve talked about that with him since.”
Rob and his spouse, Michele Reiner, as soon as spoke about their experiences with attempting to get their son assist in his youthful years.
“When Nick would tell us that it wasn’t working for him, we wouldn’t listen,” Rob Reiner instructed the Los Angeles Instances in 2015 of assorted rehabs and habit packages his son, Nick, tried. “We were desperate, and because the people had diplomas on their wall, we listened to them when we should have been listening to our son.”
Michele mentioned she and her husband “were so influenced by these people.”
“They would tell us he’s a liar, that he was trying to manipulate us,” she mentioned, including, “We believed them.”
Nick as soon as instructed Individuals journal that he selected homelessness over going to a few of the packages that had been provided to him.
“If I wanted to do it my way and not go to the programs they were suggesting, then I had to be homeless,” he instructed the outlet in 2016. “I was homeless in Maine. I was homeless in New Jersey. I was homeless in Texas. I spent nights on the street. I spent weeks on the street. It was not fun.”
