Sarah Silverman Shares Shocking Revelation About How Her Brother Died as a Baby

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20-05-2025

In a new interview, Sarah Silverman opens up about her brother Jeffrey's death — and the shocking revelation her father once shared about what really happened.
Silverman, 54, spoke with Rolling Stone about her brother Jeffrey's death, which happened before she was born, when he was 3 months old.
'I'm going to tell you a big bomb,' the comedian said during one point of her Rolling Stone interview, preparing the writer for the shocking news her father Donald Silverman told her after a show in 2022.
Silverman told the magazine that her father Donald came to Manhattan to see her perform her autobiographical stage production Bedwetter in 2022, which included a joke about her brother's death in infancy. After the last show, Silverman's father came backstage and spoke with her.
Jeffrey died while he was being babysat by Donald's parents, Max and Rose, while Silverman's parents were on vacation. 'The story was that something happened with the crib, and Jeffrey's little body slid and he got suffocated. But if you look back, there was never a lawsuit with the crib company or anything,' Silverman told Rolling Stone.
Silverman always thought it was strange that her family never sued the crib company and that no consequence came from Jeffrey's death. But backstage after her show that night, Silverman says she finally learned why.
'My dad says, 'I always felt that he was crying or something, and my dad shook him,'' Silverman recalls to Rolling Stone. ''He shook him in a rage and killed him.'' (Max is deceased.)
The I Smile Back star tells the magazine that her manager gasped when her father shared his true feelings about Silverman's brother's death, while the room went 'quiet.''As soon as he said it, it was like, 'Of course, that's what happened,'' Silverman says. 'His mother always stood by her husband. She watched him beat the s--- out of her son. I couldn't ask my mom, because she was dead.'
Silverman tells Rolling Stone her dad was always 'dropping bombs' about his life unexpectedly.
'That was my dad,' Silverman says. 'We were playing poker once, and he just dropped in that one of the priests at his school fondled him. I was like 'Dad!''
Silverman's new Netflix special, PostMortem, deals with her parents' deaths. Her mother Beth died in 2015, while her father Donald died in 2023. Silverman has two sisters, Susan and Laura, the latter of whom once played her sister on The Sarah Silverman Project.
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