Kathy Griffin made rare comments about her late brother, whom she claims was a “pedophile,” while reflecting on the grisly deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner.
In a recent YouTube video titled “Remembering Rob Reiner | Also, a Condemnation of Gun Violence,” the comedian expressed her anger over the murders of the director and his wife allegedly at the hands of their son Nick Reiner.
“I’m going to open up to you about something now that I haven’t really talked about since my first book, [“Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin“], and when I talked about it, the rest of my family was very, very upset with me,” Griffin said on Dec. 16.
The 65-year-old explained that she is the youngest of five children, reminding people that her late parents, John and Maggie, made regular appearances on her reality show, “Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List.”
“Well, my eldest brother, Kenneth, who is now dead, thank God, he was a crack addict,” she claimed. “He lived on the streets, was extremely violent, so probably had an undiagnosed mental illness that obviously did not go well with crack cocaine.
“I can just tell you it was heartbreaking watching my parents, John and Maggie, try to save him his whole life,” Griffin continued, seemingly comparing her parents to the Reiners, who continuously tried to help Nick with his substance abuse and diagnosed schizophrenia.
Griffin recalled being told Kenneth’s problems began “in his teen years,” alleging his first wife confessed to her when she was 10 that he used to allegedly “beat her so badly” and lock her out of their apartment in freezing Chicago weather.
“For years, I was in and out of separation from the rest of my family because I would never face or deal with my eldest brother, Kenneth, again with just laying into him,” she recalled, revealing that Kenneth was also her godfather.
Griffin also alleged one of Kenneth’s girlfriends had told her he “was molesting one boy and one girl that she knew of.”
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“Having your oldest brother be a pedophile is something that you don’t ever grow out, you don’t get over it. I wanted to kill him because all I could think about were all those children,” she alleged, dubbing her late sibling a “wife-beating pedophile.”
“So the expression that blood is thicker than water is not true in my case,” Griffin added. “I didn’t give a f–k that he was my older brother and I did not want to protect him, so for many years, other members of my family did not want to acknowledge that Kenneth was abusive even though he beat the crap out of his first wife.”
She even detailed calling the Los Angeles Police Department “repeatedly … once a week” to report her brother for allegedly “molesting two children,” adding, “I don’t know if any of my relatives know that to this day.”
Jumping back to Rob, the “View” alum said she didn’t “want to hear anything about how [the director] should have had security” because, similarly to the Reiners, she watched her parents “do everything” to help Kenneth.
On Dec. 14, Rob and Michele were found by their 28-year-old daughter, Romy Reiner, with their throats slit.
Romy’s 32-year-old brother, Nick, was arrested the following night after a source told The Post he was a person of interest.
Nick has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder, for which he is expected to plead not guilty by reason of insanity.
If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or text START to 88788.
If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call the Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-330-0226.
