‘At wit’s end’: Rob Reiner, son argued at Conan O’Brien’s night party before killing

The night before Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner were exposed dead in their Los Angeles home Sunday afternoon the legendary film director and producer got into a very loud argument with their -year-old son Nick Reiner at Conan O Brien s Christmas party TMZ is reporting Reiner family sources communicated TMZ that the argument was loud enough for others to hear and prompted Rob and Michele to leave early It s not known if Nick also left but it was the latest instance of the couple becoming increasingly anguished over their son s released mental illness and substance abuse issues We ve tried everything Michele Reiner reportedly commented according to the sources This document about the fight follows news Monday that Nick Reiner was arrested in connection with his parents murder and booked into the Los Angeles jail on million bail though the Los Angeles County District Attorney s Office has yet to file criminal charges CNN disclosed The LAPD s elite Robbery Homicide Division is handling the scrutiny People magazine revealed that Nick Reiner was questioned by police after his younger sister reportedly detected their parents dead in their home in the posh Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles LAPD commented they responded to a death research at the Reiner home around p m Sunday where they located the couple both dead of stated stab wounds Both Rob and Nick Reiner had been open about Nick s struggles with drug addiction going back to when he was a teenager after they made the movie Being Charlie and promoted it in interviews and at the Toronto International Film Festival The feature film was directed by Rob Reiner and based on a screenplay that his son co-authored about his reluctance to go into rehab as a teenager and how that contributed to a downward spiral into heroin use and homeless The Hollywood Reporter stated that the film sanctioned by the Reiner family gave an unusually candid glimpse into the inner workings of the Reiner household in the darkest times of Nick s addiction When Being Charlie premiered at the TIFF the Los Angeles Times wrote that the When Harry Met Sally director and his son then were making the movie to exorcise drug demons When the film was disclosed Nick Reiner presented himself as being in recovery Key portions of the movie were lifted from the Reiners lives including when Rob and Michele Reiner declared they wondered if there was an end in sight and whether it would be the tragic one that a voice in the back of their heads kept telling them was coming the Times broadcasted During a Q A following the film s premiere Rob Reiner noted that Being Charlie was the the majority personal film that I ve ever been involved in He explained that it drew from our own experiences of what we went through We didn t set out for it to be cathartic or for it to be therapeutic but it turned out to be that Reiner continued Meanwhile Nick Reiner disclosed that the experience of working on the film could sometimes get overwhelming for me In a interview with People Nick Reiner opened up about how he first went to rehab around his th birthday He also briefly faced homelessness because he resisted his parents efforts for him to go back to rehab after all the times he relapsed If I requested to do it my way and not go to the programs they were suggesting then I had to be homeless he notified People I was homeless in Maine I was homeless in New Jersey I was homeless in Texas I spent weeks on the street It was not fun But Nick Reiner reflected on how that experience proved valuable both for writing the film and in his personal life though his IMDB page shows that Being Charlie marked his one and only credit as a screenwriter That made me who I am now having to deal with that stuff Nick Reiner explained I met crazy great people there so out of my element