Emily Jashinsky

All kinds of people who are struggling and who are on the fringes of society, on the edges, and are clearly showing symptoms of a breakdown.

And they're just roaming about.

Nobody's helping them because they don't know what to do.

There aren't institutions, to your point, Megan, where they can take people.

I mean, it's heart wrenching in it's always heart wrenching when you see somebody who is kind of left to fend for themselves and people don't know what to do with them.

But this is heart wrenching in a different way.

When you know, when you know and you can tell from all of the the reports piling up now, his parents, his family seem to do absolutely everything that they could.

to get him help over the years, addressed it at film length, working together at film length to hash out this pain and the suffering and to know that they tried.

I mean, even just that report about Conan O'Brien's party,

assuming it was a holiday party or something like that, you have a family bringing their troubled son to a party.

It may sound like a small thing, but when you go through all of that tumult with your own child, it just shows to me, even in that little anecdote, that they were trying so hard to keep him in their lives and to keep him healthy.

And so to hear that, it gets you because clearly they wanted the best for him and they wanted to do everything they could

to help and sometimes you just feel like you run out of options and it sounds like that's what happened here.

And it also, I think, represents what we all know, which is that money, you can't throw money at a problem like that because to go to rehab that many times, you know, that's an extraordinary financial expense for his son.

And obviously Rob Reiner, lots and lots of money.

The family had lots and lots of money.

And so it doesn't make life, it may make life easier in some ways, but it doesn't necessarily make life better.

And so when you think about a family here who is trying everything over the course of a decade plus to help their son, including by the way, doing the emotionally taxing work

of producing, directing his film that he wrote about your relationship.

I mean, I cannot possibly fathom how difficult it was to do that in some ways.