Jamie Lee Curtis tears up discussing her late friends Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner's connection to her family

Wesley StenzelWed, April 1, 2026 at 10:52 PM UTC

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Jamie Lee Curtis in Sacramento, Calif., on March 19, 2026; Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner in Los Angeles on July 9, 2018Credit: Steve Jennings/Getty; Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty

Jamie Lee Curtis is remembering her friends Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner.

The True Lies actress discussed her family's relationship to the When Harry Met Sally filmmaker and his wife during an interview with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson on the former first lady's podcast IMO.

"My husband [Christopher Guest] and I became grandparents," Curtis revealed, explaining that her eldest daughter Annie Guest and her son-in-law Jason Wolf welcomed their first child in late 2025. "Their baby boy was born in December. And it was a week after Rob and Michele [died]. And Rob and Michele are her godparents, and they died on her birthday."

Through tears, Curtis reflected on her family's response to the Reiners' murder. "My beautiful daughter, who loved them, as we all did, managed to be able to metabolize that grief and sadness, as we have all had to do," she said. "Obviously, nothing greater than their children. But as close friends."

Ruby Guest, Christopher Guest, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Annie Guest attend the actress' hand and footprint ceremony on Oct. 12, 2022 in Hollywood, CalifCredit: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic

The Everything Everywhere All at Once star added that "colleagues and friends and people we all admired" were also mourning the couple. "And then my daughter and her husband brought their son to this world a week later," she said. "Life on life's harshest terms and life on life's most beautiful terms."

Rob and Michele Reiner were found dead in their Los Angeles home on Dec. 14. Their son Nick Reiner was arrested the next day and subsequently charged with two counts of first-degree murder, with the special circumstance allegation of multiple murders. Nick, who co-wrote his father's 2015 film Being Charlie, also faces a special allegation that he personally used a dangerous and deadly weapon, a knife.

Nick pleaded not guilty to both charges. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for April 29.

Rob Reiner and Christopher Guest first appeared on screen together when the latter guest starred on a 1977 episode of the former's hit sitcom All in the Family. The duo acted together again in Reiner's 1984 directorial debut This Is Spinal Tap, which Curtis said is indirectly responsible for her decades-long relationship with Guest.

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"I was single, it was April of 1984. I was sitting on a couch with my friend Debra Hill, who wrote and produced Halloween. We were looking at Rolling Stone," Curtis told Drew Barrymore in December. "And I opened the magazine, and there was a picture of three men with their arms around each other. It was just them in regular clothes, with their shirts rolled up. And there was a guy on the end, and I went to Debra Hill, 'Oh, huh, interesting. I'm gonna marry that guy.'"

The man in question was Guest, who appeared in the magazine alongside his Spinal Tap costars, as the film had just hit theaters a month prior. Guest and Curtis married just months after meeting each other as a result of the Rolling Stone photo later that year.

Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner in New York City on Dec. 17, 2013Credit: Gilbert Carrasquillo/FilmMagic

Guest went on to appear in Reiner's films The Princess Bride and A Few Good Men. They also worked together on a number of Spinal Tap follow-up projects, including 2025's Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, which was ultimately Reiner's final directorial project.

Despite their long friendship, Reiner and Curtis did not act together until they played the divorced parents of Jessica Day (Zooey Deschanel) in several episodes of New Girl in the 2010s. They also recently both appeared in season 4 of The Bear.

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Curtis shared an emotional tribute to the Reiners on Instagram shortly after their deaths. "I will always remember them as they lived. Passionate. Political. Surrounded by family and friends," she wrote in a caption of a photo of the couple filming the last Spinal Tap project.

"Rob and Michele were a united team," she wrote. "We all went to Stonehenge to shoot the final Spinal Tap concert. Rob directed. Michele produced. I took this image of their beautiful partnership and love and stunning appreciation that this creative, familial life had led them there. This is an ungraspable tragedy and loss. Pray for strength for their children. The world is bereft without them."

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