Sarah Silverman’s father told her that her grandfather killed her little brother ‘in anger’.

Sarah Silverman shared an extraordinary and shocking revelation, which her father made her before his death about the circumstances of her brother Jeffrey’s death when he was three months old.

The 54 -year -old US comedian is preparing to publish a new special. Postmortal, About the death of her parents Beth Ann Halpin (1941 – 2015) and Donald Silverman (1937 – 2023).

In an interview with RabPresent Silverman spoke about her late parents and the topics behind the show before the journalist told her that he hadn’t been talking about his own father after being killed in a plane crash.

He wondered whether Silverman’s parents could ever talk about Jeffrey’s death and prompted them to explain that they would tell him “a big bomb”.

While she wrote her memoirs in 2010, The bed weather – This was later transformed into a musical from 2022 – she said she was hit by the fact that her parents, while they had different reports about “every edition of their marriage”, the same when they described as Jeffrey died.

In her memoirs, Silverman said her brother had been left in the care of her grandparents Max and Rose, while Donald and Beth Ann went on vacation. Max told his son that he had checked Jeffrey at night because he cried a lot and was difficult to hear Rose.

When her grandfather climbed to see Jeffrey in the morning, he apparently found that the baby had suffocated after slipping through a narrow room between the mattress and the lower rail of the children’s bed.

“The story was that something happened with the cot and Jeffrey’s little body slipped and he was suffocated,” said Silverman Rab. “But if you look back, there was never a complaint with the Crib Company or something.”

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In 2022, a year before his death, her father came to Manhattan’s Manhattan production The bed weather Five nights in a row. The show included a scene about Silverman as a child who laughs at her grandmother and anyone who made a joke about Jeffrey’s death.

Donald Silverman came behind the stage after the fifth show and told his daughter a different story about her brother who died before her birth and claimed that it was actually his own violent father, who was responsible.

“My father says:” I always had the feeling that he was crying or something, and my father shook him, “she recalled.” He shook him in anger and killed him. ”

Her manager apparently grabbed this revelation and the room was calm for a moment.

“As soon as he said it, it was like:” Of course that’s what happened, “continued Silverman.” (Donald’s) mother always stood by her husband. She looked at him to the S *** from her son. I couldn’t ask my mother because she was dead. “

Silverman had previously spoken of her father’s “heartbreaking” childhood when he had beaten his own father every day: “He had a younger brother who was not touched. His father had the children called Mr. Silverman.”

She suggested that this type of bombing dropping was for her father’s course: “We once played poker and he just fell into that of the priest in his school. I was like ‘Papa!’ He always dropped bombs. ”

The independent has contacted Silverman’s representative to get additional comments.

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Donald Silverman died shortly after his second wife of more than 40 years, Janice.

“My best buddy, Schleppy-my father, died last night,” wrote the 52-year-old stand-up comedian in an Instagram post after his death in 2023.

“All sisters and grandchildren surrounded him with love and vocals and very dark jokes this last week. But in the end he wanted to be with his love, Janice, who we lost last Monday.”

“He always said he was the richest man in the world because of his family and he was,” added Silverman.

In another recent interview with The guardianSaid Silverman Touring Postmortem In the USA was “a nice way to keep your parents’, but it would be” time to bring it to bed “, after that Postmortem‘S UK Run that has been completed last month.

Netflix’s belonged in their former comedy specials A dust stain (2017) and HBOS Someone you love (2023).

Postmortem is available on Netflix from Tuesday, May 20.