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Nick Reiner: Self-Made Monster - One Word for Those Nights
On September 15, 2026, Nick Reiner's public defender told a Los Angeles courtroom that he has a serious mental illness and a long history of self-medicating. His circumstances, she said, show how hard it is for people like him to get treatment. Seventeen years earlier, in a $60,000-a-month room at a Malibu treatment center, a 15-year-old Nick talked every night after lights out, and the boy in the next bed has one word for it. That word, and why he chose it, is where Self-Made Monster: The Nick Reiner Story begins, and the full series runs from that room to that courtroom in one cut.
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