A resurfaced podcast interview with Nick Reiner recently drew a picture of how much his parents Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner loved and cared for him.
While promoting his 2015 film “Being Charlie,” Nick spoke to the addiction and recovery podcast “Dopey” and he did impressions of Rob and Michele Reiner while recounting how they helped him through a bad acid trip.
Nick Reiner talks about his parents
Nick told host Dave Manheim that he’d been hanging out with a friend from a drug program, and he ended up taking a tab of acid. Nick had done the drug before but this time he felt different. As he could feel things start to go awry, his friend departed, leaving him to deal with it by himself.
After already having been through multiple stints in rehab for more addictive drugs, Nick said he knew he could be open with his parents about having taken LSD.
When he woke them up with the news that he was in the grips of a bad acid trip, his mom left the room exasperated. Nick said that he curled up next to his dad in bed, “tripping my ass off.”
Diving into an impression of his dad, Nick quoted him as saying, “‘Calm down, son. I used to do this in the ’60s. You’ll come down. It won’t be forever.'”
Nick revealed, “He just talked me down for like 8 hours straight … We laid side-by-side in bed, looking up at the ceiling while he told me about the ’60s.”
In the weeks leading up to his parents’ deaths, Nick was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
TMZ reported, “3 to 4 weeks before the murders, doctors changed his meds and he became even more erratic. We’re told doctors were trying to adjust the medications so Nick stabilized, but it wasn’t working.”
The two first-degree murder charges he’s facing will hold a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole or the death penalty. Nick will next appear in court on January 7th, 2026.
