Former late-night talk show host Conan O’Brien has made his first public comments on the murder of director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, who were killed just hours after attending his holiday party.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Rob and Michele Reiner were stabbed to death, allegedly by their son, Nick Reiner, at their Los Angeles home on December 14.
Hours before the gruesome murder took place, Rob, Michele, and Nick all attended O’Brien’s Holiday party on the night of December 13.
O’Brien, in an interview with the New Yorker on the topic of Reiner’s death, shared, “My wife and I were seeing them a lot, and they were just such lovely people.”
He added, “And to have that experience of saying good night to somebody and having them leave and then find out the next day that they’re gone.”
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On a new episode of #NewYorkerRadio, Conan O’Brien talks to David Remnick about the “awful” deaths of his close friends Rob and Michele Reiner. Listen to their full conversation: https://t.co/tkEcV94MTA pic.twitter.com/wjf3CsSIIa
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Per People:
Conan O’Brien is sharing his shock over the deaths of his good friends Rob and Michele Reiner.
Hours before the When Harry Met Sally… filmmaker, 78, and his photographer-producer wife Michele, 70, were found dead in their Los Angeles home on Dec. 14 — and their son Nick arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder — all three Reiners attended O’Brien’s Dec. 13 holiday party.
“I knew Rob and Michele, and then increasingly got closer and closer to them,” O’Brien, 62, said in a new interview with The New Yorker, adding that he and his wife, Liza Powel O’Brien, “were seeing them a lot.”
“They were just such lovely people,” he said of Rob and Michele. “And to have that experience of saying good night to somebody and having them leave and then find out the next day that they’re gone…. I think I was in shock for quite a while afterward. I mean, there’s no other word for it.”
According to Fox 11 Los Angeles, during O’Brien’s party, Nick Reiner got into an argument with his parents, leading both Rob and Michele to leave early.
One party guest noted, “He (Nick) didn’t talk to anybody. He just kept to himself with a blank stare on his face, like no emotion. And he didn’t look well.”
Nick Reiner is currently being held in jail without bond.
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