It’s been virtually a yr because the dying of Rob Reiner and spouse Michelle, and their youngsters are reflecting on what they miss most about them.
Jake and Romy Reiner delivered speeches on the Youngsters’s Institute’s annual Cape & Robe Gala on Nov. 8, the place they offered Jamie Lee Curtis with the inaugural Michele and Rob Reiner Champion for Change Award.
Jake Reiner mirrored on his mother and father’ philanthropic endeavors, whereas additionally pertaining to how troublesome the previous yr has been.
“Eleven months in the past we might barely stand, not to mention communicate, in entrance of an viewers like this,” he mentioned. “We’re right here for our mother and our dad, and we’re making an attempt to indicate up for them like they did each single day elevating us. They all the time led with love and compassion, and we’re always combating for these much less lucky.”
He mentioned that when he’s requested how he’s going to hold his mother and father’ legacy ahead, he say it’s a “robust query to reply and an excellent more durable act to comply with.”
“Proper now, I’m simply making an attempt to outlive the trauma, determine the way to heal,” he mentioned. “And present up for Youngsters’s Institute tonight. I do know one factor that retains me going is one thing my mother and father instilled in me. I’ve the reward of being ready to assist folks, and I could make the world a greater place.”
Rob and Michelle Reiner had been discovered lifeless at their Los Angeles house on Dec. 14, 2025. Their son Nick Reiner is accused of murdering the 2 and has been charged with two counts of first-degree homicide. If convicted, he faces life in jail with out the opportunity of parole, in keeping with NBC Information. His trial is predicted to happen subsequent yr.
Throughout his speech on the gala, Jake Reiner shared how his mother and father’ absence “is loud tonight and each evening” for them.
“I miss my mother squeezing my knee beneath the desk when somebody at our desk says one thing ridiculous. I miss my dad leaning over to me to say, ‘I can’t consider they introduced out the salad and dessert on the identical time. That is forcing me to make a really troublesome determination,’” he mentioned with fun. “Above all else, I’m actually going to overlook the post-party evaluation on the automotive journey house with each of them, the place we dissect every part that aggravated us tonight.”
He added that “loss and grief all the time depart us wanting extra.”
He added that there “are so many moments all through the day I want I might name them. I need to bounce concepts off them. I desperately need their recommendation.”
Nick Reiner desires his mother and father’ cash, however will he get it? Nick, who’s at present going through two homicide expenses within the deaths of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, has filed a petition requesting cash from a belief fund they established in his title, in order that he might as soon as once more rent a high-powered legal professional. NBC Authorized Analyst Misty Marris is breaking down the numerous methods this might go.
“The tragedy of what occurred to our household is so darkish that the 2 folks I need proper by my facet are solely with me in my thoughts and in my soul. All I’ve left is the final 34 years of essentially the most great mother and father anybody’s ever had,” he mentioned.
Romy Reiner additionally thanked Curtis and her husband Christopher Visitor, for being there for her amid her mother and father’ deaths.
“Her and her husband Chris have proven up for me in ways in which not many individuals have. And for that, I really feel very particular to be on the receiving finish of their love,” she mentioned. “I by no means had a connection as deep or knew them fairly as nicely till now. I actually really feel there isn’t an individual higher to obtain this than Jamie. She is a good looking soul in and out and I really feel honored that she is accepting this award.”
Curtis had been longtime buddies with the late actor/director and his spouse. On the 2026 Emmys, she honored him and known as him a “cherished legend” throughout a particular “In Memoriam” tribute.
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