Conan O’Brien spoke out for the primary time on Rob Reiner’s homicide, which occurred within the hours after the Reiner household attended his Christmas Social gathering.
“I feel I used to be in shock for fairly some time afterward,” O’Brien advised The New Yorker. “I imply, there’s no different phrase for it. It’s simply very — it’s so terrible. It’s simply so terrible.”
The brand new profile interview marks the primary time O’Brien touched on seeing the Reiner’s at his Christmas Social gathering on Dec. 13 earlier than studying the following day that they’d been murdered. Nick Reiner – Rob and Michele’s son – has since been charged with their homicide.
“I knew Rob and Michele, after which more and more obtained nearer and nearer to them, and I used to be seeing them quite a bit,” O’Brien stated of his friendship with the Reiners. “My spouse and I have been seeing them quite a bit, they usually have been so — they have been simply such pretty individuals. And to have that have of claiming good evening to someone and having them depart after which discover out the following day that they’re gone … I feel I used to be in shock for fairly some time afterward. I imply, there’s no different phrase for it. It’s simply very — it’s so terrible. It’s simply so terrible.”
He added: “And I take into consideration how Rob felt about issues which might be taking place within the nation, how concerned he was, how a lot he put himself on the market — and to have that voice go quiet instantly continues to be onerous for me to grasp.”
Rob and Michele died in a double murder from “a number of sharp power accidents,” based on the L.A. Medical Examiner. Their 32-year-old son was later arrested and charged with the murders.
Following the information, experiences emerged of a combat breaking out at O’Brien’s Christmas get together between Rob and Nick. Nameless experiences of a shouting match between the 2 have been printed by Web page Six and TMZwith the New York Put up calling it “a large blow-up .” The Day by day Mail reported Friday that O’Brien talked visitors out of calling the police on the heated incident.
However a Hollywood government who attended the get together advised TheWrap in our personal earlier reporting “that’s bulls–t.” The attendee was vehement that O’Brien and visitors didn’t witness a shouting match between Rob and Nick Reiner, including, “If there had been a giant combat with the Reiners, there have been one million individuals there I knew. Nobody talked about it to me.”
The attendee continued: “I stated to Conan the following day – I stated, ‘What’s all these items a couple of combat?’ He stated, ‘I noticed no combat.’”
