Eight months after his parents were killed, Jake Reiner says he wakes up each day to the same "living nightmare." In his first sit-down interview, the 34-year-old son of director Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Singer Reiner describes learning of the December 2025 stabbings from a frantic call from his sister, then arriving at his childhood home to find it a crime scene. "Romy told me our dad was dead, and then she said, 'I can't find mom,'" he told KABC's Mark Cota-Robles in a preview of an interview that aired on Good Morning America. "I immediately went into shock."
- "Nobody really understands what it's like to go through something like that until you're living it," he said. "It's been eight months. It feels like eight years at the same time. And it also feels like eight minutes because every moment that I wake up, I'm reminded of my reality."
His brother, 32-year-old Nick Reiner, has been indicted on two counts of murder, with prosecutors alleging that he lay in wait. Jake declined to say if he was surprised by Nick's arrest. "He's in jail," Jake said. "It's like, I physically lost my parents, and then Nick was arrested. Now it's just me and Romy, and we have to navigate this by ourselves essentially." He added: "For me, it manifests into anger. It manifests into rage, into how unfair this was, how I didn't get a say in what happened. I didn't get to stop it from happening. I had no choice in the matter. I just have to accept the reality of it. And to me, that is just one of the most infuriating parts of all of this."
- Jake also declined to comment on his brother's efforts to use money from the family trust to fund his defense, Rolling Stone reports. "I'll never understand. I don't care how it's explained to me. I don't care what facts come out. I will never understand why this happened," he said. "My parents had unconditional love for all three of us. I can tell you they never stopped wanting to help him. They never stopped helping him."
- Now, Jake and sister Romy are trying to honor their parents, from throwing out a ceremonial first pitch at Dodger Stadium to supporting one of their favorite causes, the Children's Institute, which will debut a Rob and Michele Reiner award at its November gala. Martine Singer, Michele Reiner's sister, is the institute's president and CEO. Jake will attend the gala in his parents' place this year. "It's going to be hard," he said. "I think everything that we've done so far without them has been hard and weird."
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