Sarah Silverman reveals a shocking family secret about the death of her baby brothers

Sunday, Rolling Stone published a profile on the comedian in which a bomb drops on the death of his brother Jeffrey as a baby. Jeffrey, who was born five years before “Saturday Night Live”, died at 3 months of age under the care of his grandparents while his parents were out of a cruise.

“The story was that something happened with the crib, and Jeffrey’s little body slid and suffocated,” Silverman told the magazine.

Silverman said he never had any reason to doubt this story. That is, except for an incident of confusing childhood that involves its grandmother.

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According to Silverman, when he was 5 years old, his grandmother took her already her three older sisters to breakfast. When his grandmother asked them to fasten the seat belts, Silverman decided to make a joke.

“Yes, we don’t want to finish as Jeffrey,” said Silverman.

The laugh of little Sarah caused the car to remain completely silent, and her grandmother began to cry. Silverman decided at that time not to mention Jeffrey again with his family. That was until she wrote about him in her 2010 memoirs, “Bedwetter.”

In 2022, Silverman turned his memoirs into a musical of the same name, and included a scene breaking the insensitive joke in his grandmother’s car, without anyone laughing.

Silverman said his father, Donald Silverman, came to see his program that same year in Manhattan, and he liked it so much that he saw him five times.

However, at the end of the fifth show, Donald came out on stage and decided to make a great confession to his daughter about Jeffrey.

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“My dad says: ‘I always felt that I was crying or something, and my dad shook it,” Silverman recalled. “‘He shook him with anger and killed him.'”

Rolling Stone’s article adds that the actor of the “Master” described his grandfather as physically abusive to his father throughout his childhood. He also mentioned the magazine that he seemed suspicious that his family never filed a “demand before the cradle company or anything.”

“As soon as he said, it was,” Of course, that is what happened, “Silverman said about his father’s theory. “Her mother was always standing with her husband. She saw her hit her son. I couldn’t ask my mother, because she was dead.”

Silverman’s father dropped this “bomb” only one year before he died in 2023.

“My best friend, Schleppy, my father, died last night,” Silverman wrote in an Instagram post at that time, along with a collection of photos of the two together over the years. “All the sisters and grandchildren surrounded him with love, singing and very dark jokes in this last week.”

The two seemed incredibly close, with Silverman saying in his 2010 memories, Extracted by Entertainment Weeklywho learned the art of swearing from his pop.

“It was as if he were teaching a course of ‘curse as a second language’ for one,” he wrote.

Your dad later remembered the Guardian In 2013, “she was as pretty as a baby, so I taught her the worst words. One day, when Sarah was about four years old, my mother came with some Brownies and Sarah shouted:” Take them in the ass, Nana! “It was excellent.”