Arlene Silver, Dick Van Dyke's spouse, is giving followers a glimpse of the "bizarre, fantastic, terrible weekend" during which the TV legend each celebrated his a centesimal birthday and found that his shut buddy Rob Reiner and his spouse, Michele, had been murdered.

"I can't not discuss this horrible factor," Silver tearfully famous in a video posted to her Instagram on Monday. "Dick's birthday was so wonderful, so over-the-top lovely, I used to be relieved and joyful, after which this occurred yesterday."

Silver defined that she and Van Dyke, who married in 2012, "talked to Rob two weeks in the past on the cellphone, and Michele left so many messages for Dick's birthday. It's going to take me weeks to undergo them, and Rob's are in these messages." Silver mentioned that Van Dyke "didn't sleep" after studying of the Reiners' deaths, opting to "keep up" and look ahead to extra data, regardless of having freshly turned 100.

"Dick has recognized Rob since he was a teen on the Dick Van Dyke Present, and I've all the time been a fan of his work earlier than I knew him. Rob and Carl have been the primary folks I ever met with Dick," Silver defined.

Reiner's father Carl Reiner was a present enterprise legend, having received 11 Emmys for his work alongside greats like Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, and Van Dyke on movies, comedy specials, and sequence like It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Caesar's Hour, and The Dick Van Dyke Present, the pioneering sitcom Carl created in 1961, forging a bond between each Carl and his son with Van Dyke that lasted lifetimes.

"Rob and Michele have been all the time collectively, like Dick and I," Silver continued. "I all the time felt a part of the Reiner household. They all the time handled me like a part of their household… I need to rejoice Dick, I need to maintain doing that, however I additionally need to acknowledge this horrible factor. You by no means know, every single day you by no means know."

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When Carl Reiner died in 2020, Van Dyke eulogized him as "my idol," noting his Dick Van Dyke Present scripts "have been by no means simply humorous, they all the time had one thing to say about us."

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The our bodies of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner have been discovered by their 27-year-old daughter Romy of their Brentwood, Calif., residence on Sunday afternoon. Nick Reiner, their 32-year-old son, was taken into police custody that night and was subsequently charged with the murders of his mother and father on Tuesday. He faces life in jail with out the potential of parole or the demise penalty if charged.

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