‘Being Charlie’ producer slams ‘sickening’ Nick Reiner after dad Rob’s death: ‘Hollywood tragedy’
NY Post
An executive producer on Rob Reiner and Nick Reiner’s 2015 movie, “Being Charlie,” is speaking out after the gruesome murders of the famed director and his wife, Michele Reiner.
Douglas Shaffer exclusively told Page Six he has “mixed emotions” after the couple’s troubled son was arrested and charged with brutally stabbing his parents to death at their Brentwood, Los Angeles, home on Sunday.
“Part of me is just very sad because what happened is tragic and there’s a father there that was trying to help his son and somehow everything went sideways,” Shaffer said.
“It’s just a Hollywood tragedy. It’s sickening.”
“Rob was a legend. An absolute Hollywood legend,” he added. “His father [Carl Reiner] was a Hollywood legend. So to end this way is just so tragic and sad.”
Shaffer continued, “Another part of me is angry. Nick … if there were mental issues involved, that’s one thing. I don’t know what the extent that is, if he was showing signs of schizophrenia or whatever. But if he was just in a drug-induced rage, I’m so angry about that. He had a good support system with his family and his father, and all they tried to do was help him. And to somehow blame his father and his mother for all that, and the act that he did is just absolutely sickening to me.”
