Conan O’Brien Speaks Out on Rob Reiner’s Death Hours After His Holiday Party: ‘I Was in Shock for Quite a While. It’s So Awful’

Conan O’Brien is speaking out for the first time about the deaths of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner. The filmmaker and his spouse died in an apparent homicide on Dec. 14. The couple’s son, Nick Reiner, has been arrested for their murder. O’Brien found himself thrust into the center of the story when it was revealed that Rob, Michele and Nick attended his holiday party the night before the deaths occurred.

“I knew Rob and Michele, and then increasingly got closer and closer to them, and I was seeing them a lot,” O’Brien told The…