Sarah Silverman made a shocking revelation in a recent interview about her baby brother’s death.
The comedian, 54, is about to release PostMortem - a show about the death of her parents Beth Ann Halpin (1941 – 2015) and Donald Silverman (1937 – 2023).
But, in an interview with Rolling Stone, Sarah said that her parents had always told her that her brother, Jeffrey - who died before Silverman was born - passed away after falling through a narrow space between the mattress and the bottom rail of the crib.
But she told the publication her father, Donald, later told her a shocking story.
“The story was that something happened with the crib, and Jeffrey’s little body slid and he got suffocated,” she told the publication.
“But if you look back, there was never a lawsuit with the crib company or anything.”
She says it was after her father, Donald, had watched a performance of The Bedwetter - Silverman’s memoir which was turned in to a 2022 musical - that he told her a different version of events.
The show includes a part where Silverman as a child makes a joke about Jeffrey’s death to her grandmother and nobody laughs.
She then says that her dad told her a different story about her brother’s death, saying he thought his own father killed the three-month-old baby.
“My dad says, ‘I always felt that he was crying or something, and my dad shook him,’” she said.
“‘He shook him in a rage and killed him.’”
Silverman said she believed her father, who had been subject to violence from her grandad.
“As soon as he said it, it was like, ‘Of course, that’s what happened,’” Silverman continued. “[Donald’s] 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 also said in the interview that her father was “always dropping bombs”.
“We were playing poker once, and he just dropped in that one of the priests at his school fondled him. I was like ‘Dad!’ He was always dropping bombs.”
The Standard has contacted representatives of Sarah Silverman for comment.
