Nick Reiner: Self-Made Monster Part 1 - His Roommate Wasn't Surprised

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews · Oct 7, 2026 · 15m

Nick Reiner described himself, at 22, as a spoiled white rich kid from a Hollywood family. He said he chose homelessness in Maine, New Jersey and Texas over treatment programs that weren't run his way. He said he stole OxyContin from a sick old woman, and he said the persona that cost his parents 17 or 18 rehab stays was one he picked on purpose. All of that is on tape. What his rehab roommate knew the moment the news broke from Brentwood is where Self-Made Monster: The Nick Reiner Story begins.

Danny Svilar shared a room with Nick at a Malibu treatment center in 2009, when both were 15, and…