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Academy Award-winning actress Jane Fonda shared details about legendary director and actor Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner's final night in a post shared on her Instagram account Monday (December 15).
Fonda said she was "stunned" by news of the Reiners' deaths, having seen them Saturday (December 13) night, hours before their deaths Sunday (December 14) afternoon.
"Rob and Michele Reiner were wonderful, caring, smart, funny, generous people, always coming up with ideas for how to make the world better, kinder. They had been helping me launch the Committee for the First Amendment. I saw them night before last looking healthy and happy. I am reeling with grief. Stunned," Fonda wrote.
The Reiners reportedly attended a holiday party at the home of comedian and legendary former talk show host Conan O'Brien, at which point they allegedly got into a "very loud argument" with their son, Nick, and left the event. Nick, 32, who was arrested on Monday (December 15) in connection with his parents' deaths, was described as acting erratically with guests at the party.
“Nick was freaking everyone out, acting crazy, kept asking people if they were famous,” an insider told PEOPLE.
Rob and Michele Reiner were reportedly found with their throats slit by their daughter, Romy, who told police that a "dangerous" relative should be the suspect in their deaths, sources with knowledge of the situation confirmed to TMZ on Monday. Romy reportedly suggested that the incident stemmed from a heated argument.
Nick had publicly acknowledged his issues with drug addition and homelessness in the past. Rob and Michele Reiner were reported to also have stab wounds to multiple other parts of their bodies, sources with knowledge of the situation confirmed to the New York Post.
Reiner, the son of producer, writer and actor Carl Reiner and actress and singer Estelle Reiner, initially gained national prominence playing Mike 'Meathead' Stivic on All in the Family and is credit with numerous acting roles during a career that spanned seven decades. The New York City native made his directorial debut with the heavy metal mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap (1984) -- having released a sequel earlier this year -- which was followed up by The Sure Thing (1985), Stand By Me (1986), The Princess Bride (1987), When Harry Met Sally...(1989), Misery (1990) and A Few Good Men (1992).