One year prior, Nick’s parents expressed regret at how they had dealt with their son’s addiction, saying they failed to listen to him and instead relied on medical professionals to get him through it.
‘When Nick would tell us that it wasn’t working for him, we wouldn’t listen,’ Reiner told the Los Angeles Times at the time.
‘We were desperate and because the people had diplomas on their wall, we listened to them when we should have been listening to our son.’
Michele added: ‘We were so influenced by these people. They would tell us he’s a liar, that he was trying to manipulate us. And we believed them.’
“They would tell us he’s a liar, that he was trying to manipulate us.”
He probably was. Getting in the way of an addict and his drugs is a very dangerous thing to do.
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“We were too important, and self-centered to want to help him. We went to Hollywood parties and bragged about the expensive doctors we hired to “fix” the problems we created.”
This is my interpretation of what those two really thought.