Rob Reiner made a chilling comment about loving “all” his children, “even the bad ones,” months before he was stabbed to death.
Piers Morgan asked the actor-director in September in one of his final interviews about which of his movies best encompassed the legacy he wanted to leave behind.
“Well, I mean, listen, people have their favorites. [It’s] the cliché, ‘We love all our children, even the bad ones,’” Reiner, 78, replied eerily before revealing his choice: “Stand By Me.”
He went on to explain why the 1986 coming-of-age drama was so special to him.
“I don’t know that it’s the best — that’s for other people to decide — but it’s the one that meant the most to me because it really is an extension of my personality and my sensibility,” he shared.
“It has a mixture of humor and melancholy and emotion, and it’s something that is closest to me of all the films I’ve done.”
During his impressive 64-year career, Reiner earned 90 acting credits, 55 writing credits, 32 producing credits and 30 directing credits.
The same month as his “Piers Morgan Uncensored” interview, he and his family — including wife Michele Singer Reiner, 68, son Jake Reiner, 34, son Nick Reiner, 32, and daughter Romy Reiner, 28 — attended the “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues” premiere together. (Rob also had a stepdaughter whom he adopted, Tracy Reiner, 61, from his first marriage to Penny Marshall.)
On Sunday afternoon, Rob and Michele — who wed in 1989 — were found fatally stabbed in their Los Angeles home, located in the neighborhood of Brentwood, with TMZ reporting that their throats had been slit following an argument with a family member.
Sources said Romy is the one who made the grisly discovery and told responding officers that a relative “should be a suspect” because they’re “dangerous.”
Their son Nick — who has been battling drug addiction for more than half his life — is now being eyed as a person of interest in the investigation, according to The Post.
In a statement, the couple’s “heartbroken” family confirmed the news with “profound sorrow” and described the “sudden loss” as “unbelievably difficult.”
LA Mayor Karen Bass went on to call the situation — and Rob’s death — “devastating” and “tragic.”
She made sure to praise the late Hollywood icon for improving “countless lives through his creative work and advocacy fighting for social and economic justice.”
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