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Sarah Silverman has opened up about a deeply personal and tragic family secret the death of her infant brother, Jeffrey, who passed away at just three months old. In a candid interview with Rolling Stone, the 54-year-old comedian and actress recounted the painful story she only recently learned from her father, Donald Silverman.
“I’m going to tell you a big bomb,” Silverman told the interviewer before diving into the emotional revelation. The heartbreaking conversation took place in 2022 after a performance of Bedwetter, Silverman’s autobiographical stage show, in Manhattan.
Donald had come to see her perform, and afterward, he went backstage to talk to her. The production included a reference to Jeffrey’s death a loss that had occurred before Sarah was born but what she thought she knew about the incident would soon be upended.
The long-standing story in the family was that Jeffrey had died while being babysat by his grandparents, Rose and Max, while Donald and his wife were away on vacation.
“The story was that something happened with the crib, and Jeffrey’s little body slid and he got suffocated,” Sarah explained. “But if you look back, there was never a lawsuit with the crib company or anything.”
Silverman admitted she had often questioned why the family didn’t take legal action, given the devastating circumstances. But after that night backstage, she finally got an answer she never expected.
“My dad says, ‘I always felt that he was crying or something, and my dad [Max] shook him. He shook him in a rage and killed him,’” she recalled.
The revelation hit her with a jarring clarity. “As soon as he said it, it was like, ‘Of course, that’s what happened.’ His mother always stood by her husband. She watched him beat the shit out of her son. I couldn’t ask my mom, because she was dead,” she added, referencing her late grandmother, Rose.
The tragic confession shed new light on a decades-old family trauma that had long been shrouded in silence. By sharing the story publicly, Silverman is confronting a past that had remained hidden until now.
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