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00:00Newly released photos showed the dramatic arrest of Nick Reiner,
00:03charged with the brutal murders of his parents, Rob and Michelle Reiner.
00:07Photos shared by the LAPD show the 32-year-old wearing a black jacket with white stripes,
00:12being pinned to the ground by police, then escorted to a squad car in handcuffs.
00:17The LAPD, with the help of U.S. Marshals, tracked him down near a metro station by USC campus,
00:23roughly 15 miles from his parents' Brentwood home.
00:26Nick was reportedly staying at the Pierside Santa Monica Motel, where staff alerted the LAPD
00:32after claiming to have discovered a disturbing trail of blood inside his room.
00:37Nick is being held in jail without bail and is reportedly on suicide watch.
00:41The shocking story has shaken Hollywood to its core,
00:44as new stories of Nick's troubled childhood and past come to light.
00:48The deceased couple's former yoga teacher from the early 2000s, Alana Zabel,
00:53told Page Six that Nick interrupted pretty much all of their yoga sessions at the family's Los Angeles home.
00:59Disruptions lasted 20 minutes or so, intense outbursts with lots of screaming.
01:05Zabel described Nick as egocentric, a little boy with big behavioral issues,
01:10who was always upsetting everyone. She wondered if ADHD was at play,
01:15calling his unusually high energy just inexhaustible.
01:19Nick's troubles as a kid turned into a life battling drug addiction,
01:23in and out of rehab since the age of 15.
01:25He wrote the 2016 semi-autobiographical film Being Charlie, directed by his dad, Rob Reiner.
01:32Drink?
01:32If you continue to refuse to accept the disease that put you here,
01:36you will continue to be a repeat offender.
01:38Don't you mean repeat customer?
01:39I love him!
01:40I love him!
01:41Oh, and I don't love him!
01:42I don't know!
01:42You've had plenty of courses, Charlie!
01:44Yeah, rehab or jail, you know, quite a wide selection there.
01:47One of us had to keep him safe.
01:49For him or for you?
01:50However, the father-son duo publicly fought on set,
01:54as witnessed by a stunt performer who worked one day on the movie.
01:57Eric Audet told Page Six,
01:59Obviously Rob loved his son because he's doing this movie for his son,
02:02and still, his son was unappreciative.
02:06He's a Nepo baby, a spoiled kid to the T.
02:09In 2015, the Reiner family sat down with The Hollywood Reporter.
02:13Looking back on that interview, writer Steven Zeichik now calls it painful and jarring.
02:18He remembered Rob getting emotional, discussing Nick's very hard struggles with drug addiction.
02:23The number one job of any parent is to keep their child safe.
02:26And I hadn't done that.
02:28And now here, I have done that.
02:30I kept him safe.
02:31He came out alive.
02:32Zeichik noted,
02:34Here in 2025, the words kept ricocheting through my brain.
02:38Yes, Nick had come out alive.
02:40It was Rob that hadn't.
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