Kathy Griffin describes growing up with late brother she claims was a ‘pedophile’: ‘You don’t get over it’

Kathy Griffin opened up astir her ain family dynamics while reflecting connected nan grisly deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner.

In a YouTube video titled “Remembering Rob Reiner | Also, a Condemnation of Gun Violence,” nan comedian expressed really angry she was complete nan murders of nan head and his woman allegedly astatine nan hands of their boy Nick Reiner.

“I’m going to unfastened up to you astir thing now that I haven’t really talked astir since my first book [“Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin“], and erstwhile I talked astir it, nan remainder of my family was very, very upset pinch me,” she said, changing nan subject.

The 65-year-old went connected to explicate that she is nan youngest of 5 children and reminded group that her precocious parents, John and Maggie, made regular appearances connected her reality show, “Kathy Griffin: My Life connected nan D-List.”

“Well, my eldest brother, Kenneth, who is now dead, convey God. He was a ace addict. He lived connected nan streets, was highly violent, truthful astir apt had an undiagnosed intelligence unwellness that evidently did not spell good pinch ace cocaine,” she claimed. 

“I tin conscionable show you it was heartbreaking watching my parents, John and Maggie, effort to prevention him his full life,” Griffin noted, seemingly drafting comparisons betwixt her parents and the Reiners, who continuously tried to thief Nick pinch his constituent abuse and diagnosed schizophrenia.

She recalled being told that Kenneth’s problems began “in his teen years” and his first woman confessing to her erstwhile she was 10 that he utilized to allegedly “beat her truthful badly” and fastener her retired of their flat successful nan freezing Chicago weather.

“And for years, I was successful and retired of separation from nan remainder of my family because I would ne'er look aliases woody pinch my eldest brother, Kenneth, again pinch conscionable laying into him,” she explained, revealing that Kenneth was besides her godfather.

Griffin besides alleged 1 of Kenneth’s girlfriends had told her he “was molesting 1 boy and 1 woman that she knew of.”

“Having your oldest relative beryllium a pedophile is thing that you don’t ever turn out, you don’t get complete it. I wanted to termination him because each I could deliberation astir were each those children,” she alleged, dubbing him a “wife-beating pedophile.”

“So nan look that humor is thicker than h2o is not existent successful my case. I didn’t springiness a f–k that he was my older relative and I did not want to protect him, truthful for galore years, different members of my family did not want to admit that Kenneth was abusive moreover though he hit nan crap retired of his first wife.”

She moreover elaborate calling nan Los Angeles Police Department “repeatedly” and “once a week” to study her relative for allegedly “molesting 2 children,” adding, “I don’t cognize if immoderate of my relatives cognize that to this day.”

Jumping backmost to Rob, Giffin said she didn’t “want to perceive thing astir really [the director] should person had security” because, likewise to nan Reiners, she watched her parents “do everything” thief Kenneth’s behavior.

Ahead of her confession, “The View” alum — who has been banned from nan show doubly — was reflecting connected nan decease of Rob and his wife, Michele.

On Dec. 14, Rob and Michele were found pinch their throats slit by their 28-year-old daughter, Romy Reiner.

Her 32-year-old brother, Nick, was arrested the pursuing nighttime aft a root told The Post he had been eyed arsenic a personification of interest.

He has been charged pinch 2 counts of first-degree execution — for which he is expected to plead not blameworthy by logic of insanity.

If you aliases personification you cognize is affected by immoderate of nan issues raised successful this story, telephone nan National Domestic Violence Hotline astatine 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) aliases matter START to 88788.

If you aliases personification you cognize is affected by immoderate of nan issues raised successful this story, telephone nan Sexual Assault Hotline astatine 1-800-330-0226.