Wyoming restaurateur Danny Svilar recently said that he shared a room with alleged killer Nick Reiner at a luxury rehab facility in California when they were both 15 years old.
Nick Reiner is a ‘monster’
The recovering shopping addict told the Daily Mail that they enjoyed a brief friendship as they laid awake at night exchanging stories, and that he met the Reiners on several occasions.
Though their brotherhood was short-lived, culminating in an explosive fight at the $60,000-per-month Malibu rehabilitation facility as Svilar said the experience gave him a unique insight into the mind of an accused murderer.
Svilar said he saw how Rob and Michele Reiner did ‘everything they could’ for Nick, spending millions on his recovery, yet he would rant through the night about ‘how much he f***ing hated his parents’.
‘He just had really oppressed anger towards the fame,’ Svilar told the Mail.
‘I don’t know how it is having a father with that level of fame, but regardless of that, Nick had no sense of gratitude, no sense of appreciation.
‘He was just a f***ing pompous little punk… he just wanted to be out, smoking pot, doing pills, doing whatever, and his family just wanted him to get help.’
Nick Reiner is accused of brutally stabbing his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, at their $13.5 million mansion in Brentwood, Los Angeles, during the early hours of December 14th.
The Hollywood director and his producer wife were found dead hours later by their horrified daughter, Romy, and Nick was arrested later that day on suspicion of murder.
Svilar, a recovered shopping addict, said he met Nick at a California rehab facility in the summer of 2009.
‘My mom staged an intervention on me and shipped me off to Malibu after I spent $250,000 on my father’s credit card,’ Svilar told the Daily Mail.
‘Nick was my first roommate.’
Nick Reiner has spoken publicly regarding his heroin use as a teenager, and he was in a rehabilitation center as a teen for drug addiction treatment.
‘From the get-go, he was pretty welcoming, pretty funny,’ Svilar recalled. ‘But at the same time, there was this side of him which could just, like, flip.’
Svilar stated that he witnessed Nick attack another teen at the facility, and on one occasion, Nick directed his rage towards him, resulting in their separation.
‘I compared him to looking like John Travolta’s son that died, and that set him off,’ Svilar said, referring to the actor’s late son, Jett Travolta.
‘We had good rapport at first, but then I was like ‘oh my god, that’s who you remind me of’.
‘It kind of turned ugly after that… He definitely tried to get aggressive with me.
‘He tried to get physical, and then a tech had to step in… He was getting into my face and raising a fist.’
