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Nick LehnerFormer classmates couldn’t believe it when they heard that the screenwriter was arrested for allegedly involving his parents Rob Reiner and Michelle Singer Rainerof murder.
“There’s nothing to suggest anything will lead to anything even remotely close to this,” Brett FaberIn the Monday, Dec. 22 episode, Nick, who went to school with Nick as a teenager news nation equilibrium state.
Faber described Nick as “very close” when they were classmates around 16 and 17 years old.
“We’re not good friends. We’re not sharing secrets about the great mysteries of life and stuff like that until 4 in the morning, but we’re in the same building,” he added. “We play basketball. We do different things together and he’s like a man.”
Faber continued, “He had a great sense of humor and was kind of self-deprecating. You know, I was very confused by the disparity between the people I knew and the stories I saw. I really had a hard time understanding that. Still do.”
Rob and Michelle found dead On December 14, they were at their home in Brentwood, California. A few hours later, Nick is arrested occurred near the University of Southern California campus and was later charged with two counts of first-degree murder. If convicted, he faces life in prison without the possibility of parole or the death penalty.
Faber revealed that when he first heard the news of Rob and Michelle’s murder and Nick’s arrest, he had to “take it a second time” and refresh his phone to make sure the story was true.
“I froze for a moment, and then I was like, ‘What?’ I didn’t really have any experience hearing news like this and being able to relate to it or make sense of it,” he explained.
Nick made his first court appearance on Wednesday, December 17. lawyer Alan Jackson told the court his client would not enter a plea yet. Arraignment is scheduled for January 7, 2026.
Following Nick’s arrest, a podcast resurfaced in which he discussed his drug addiction and vandalizing his parents’ hotel.
“It’s not a story,” Nick said on the “Dopey” podcast in August 2018. “I completely passed out – I think it was Coke and stuff – and I didn’t sleep for days. I started typing different things in my hotel.”
“Everything in the hotel was destroyed,” including the television, Nick said. In this episode, Nick calls himself a “junkie.”
Faber noted that when he heard the podcast, he was shocked by Nick’s behavior.
“It doesn’t make sense to me to know that this guy is on a podcast talking about destroying things in a hotel like a caveman in a cryocenter,” Faber said Monday. “When I got to know this guy, he was very calm and, you know, it was hard to get him off the couch. We were both lazy. We were 16-year-old lads.”
Before Nick’s trial, his siblings Jake, 34, and Romy, 27 shared a statement Thanks to their supporters. (Rob also adopted an older daughter, Tracy, 61, while he was married to his late ex-wife Penny Marshall.)
“Jake and Romi Renner remain grateful for the outpouring of love and support they have received,” their spokesperson told reporters. people on Monday. “They will share information about a memorial service in memory of their parents at a later date.”
