Dick Van Dyke‘s wife, Arlene Silver, detailed how Rob Reiner’s death profoundly impacted her husband.
Silver, 54, shared a video via Instagram on Monday, December 15, that discussed how early reports of Rob and wife Michele Reiner’s deaths at ages 78 and 68, respectively, on Sunday, December 14, kept Van Dyke, who turned 100 someday prior, awake.
“I would like to rejoice Dick … but I also wish to acknowledge this horrible thing,” Silver told fans. “Dick didn’t sleep last night because he desired to not sleep to simply know … we didn’t know what happened. The primary reports were, ‘Two people present in the home.’” (TMZ was first to report on an incident inside Rob and Michele’s Brentwood home, with the family confirming the couple’s deaths later that night.)
Silver, who has been married to Van Dyke since February 2012, also spoke about how she and Van Dyke recently spoke to the Reiners over the phone. “We talked to Rob two weeks ago on the phone. And Michele … I actually have so many messages for Dick’s birthday [and] Michele and Rob’s are in those messages,” Silver said. “Dick has known Rob since he was a youngster on The Dick Van Dyke Show and I’ve been a fan of his work before I knew him. Rob and Michele were all the time together like Dick and I. I all the time felt a part of the Reiner family.”
Rob’s father, the late Carl Reiner, created The Dick Van Dyke Show, which premiered in 1961 and ran for five years.
Silver, a makeup artist who also works as an actress and producer, added that she felt mixed feelings about celebrating Van Dyke’s milestone birthday within the wake of the Reiners’ deaths. “Such a weird, wonderful, awful weekend,” Silver said within the clip. “I can’t not discuss this horrible thing. Dick’s birthday was so amazing, over-the-top beautiful. I used to be relieved and glad and all that after which this happened yesterday.”
Arlene Silver and Dick Van Dyke Paul Morigi/Getty Images
Silver also commented on Rob and Michele’s son, Nick Reiner, who was charged with two counts of first-degree murder because of this of his parents’ death. “You recognize that they did every part for that child,” Silver said. “I’d never met him but I met his [Rob’s] other kids they usually loved their kids.”
She added later within the video, “I feel terrible for his family. He had a beautiful family.”
A report by the Los Angeles Times, published on Tuesday, December 16, stated that a representative from the Los Angeles Police Department claimed Rob and Michele died of their bedroom on Sunday night. The article said that the knowledge was shared by Assistant Chief Dominic Choi at a weekly LAPD meeting, and that “the couple’s bodies were present in the bedroom of their Brentwood home.”
Rob and Michele Singer Reiner made quite a few public appearances — and plans with several celebrity friends — in the times leading as much as their murders. Us Weekly confirmed on Monday, December 15 that Rob, 78, and Michele, 68, died from “apparent stab wounds,” in accordance with the Los Angeles police. Their shocking deaths got here as a […]
Us Weekly confirmed that Nick, 32, was arrested on suspicion of murder without bail on Monday, December 15. The LAPD said in a press conference on the time that Rob and Michele suffered apparent stab wounds and the matter was being investigated as a homicide.
Los Angeles district attorney Nathan Hochman said in a press conference on Tuesday that Nick shall be arraigned after undergoing medical clearance. He’s facing life in prison without parole, or the death penalty.