Sarah Silverman Opens Up About Horrifying Death in Family
Sarah Silverman's new Netflix special is centered around the deaths of her parents, but Silverman recently revealed the tragic circumstances surrounding the death of another family member.
During an interview with Rolling Stone, Silverman said that she only learned the true circumstances of her older brother's death when she was an adult.
After making a joke about her brother Jeffrey's death in her 2022 show "Bedwetter," Silverman says her father approached her after the final day of the show's run to make an admission.
'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 said.
'My dad says, 'I always felt that he was crying or something, and my dad shook him. He shook him in a rage and killed him.''
Silverman said that the room went quiet and her manager gasped, but that she wasn't shocked by her father's admission about her grandfather.
'As soon as he said it, it was like, 'Of course, that's what happened,'' Silverman said.
'His mother always stood by her husband. She watched him beat the [expletive] out of her son. I couldn't ask my mom, because she was dead.'
Silverman noted that her father dropping massive information casually was normal, mentioning a time that he told her he had been assaulted by a school priest while playing poker.
"He always said he was the richest man in the world because of his family, and he was," she said about her father in a 2023 Instagram post following his death. The comedian mentioned that her father was her "best pal."
Silverman was initially known for a brief stint on "Saturday Night Live" in the mid 1990s before starting her own show on Comedy Central years later.
"The Sarah Silverman Program" ran for three seasons, working with Dan Harmon of "Community" and "Rick and Morty" fame. She's also appeared in several films during her career, including Disney's "Wreck-It Ralph" series and the critically acclaimed "I Smile Back."
Silverman's newest stand-up special "PostMortem" is out now on Netflix.
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