Acclaimed director Rob Reiner had opened up about his son Nick’s addiction recovery and shared how well he was doing in September, just months before Nick was arrested and charged with murder after his parents’ bodies were found with stab wounds in their Los Angeles home.

“It’s been great,” Reiner said during an appearance on NPR’s “Fresh Air” with Terry Gross.

The director added that Nick “hasn’t done drugs for over six years.”

“He’s in a really good place,” Reiner shared at the time.

During the meeting, Gross also asked Reiner about a film he collaborated on with Nick, called “Being Charlie.” Nick Reiner co-wrote the script based on his own experiences with addiction and homelessness, while Rob Reiner directed the film.

Rob and Nick Reiner attend the AOL Build Speaker Series on May 4, 2016 in New York City.
Rob and Nick Reiner attend the AOL Build Speaker Series on May 4, 2016 in New York City.

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Gross asked Reiner if he was anything like the film’s fictional father, who struggled to balance his own career ambitions with the help of his son.

“I was never too busy,” Reiner told Gross. “I mean, if anything, I was the other way around, you know, I was more hands-on and tried to do everything I thought I could do to help. I’m sure I made mistakes and, you know, I’ve talked about it with him since.”

Rob and his wife, Michele Reiner, once talked about their experiences trying to get help for their son in his youth.

“When Nick told us it wasn’t working for him, we didn’t listen,” Rob Reiner told the Los Angeles Times in 2015 of various rehab and addiction programs his son, Nick, tried. “We were desperate and, since people had diplomas on the walls, we listened to them when we should have listened to our son.”

Michele said she and her husband “were very influenced by these people.”

“They told us that he is a liar, that he was trying to manipulate us,” he said, adding: “We believed them.”

Nick once told People magazine that he chose homelessness over attending some of the programs they offered him.

“If I wanted to do it my way and not go to the programs they suggested, then I had to be homeless,” he told the outlet in 2016. “I was homeless in Maine. I was homeless in New Jersey. I was homeless in Texas. I spent nights on the street. I spent weeks on the street. It wasn’t fun.”