Talking with Rolling Stone for a brand new profile, Silverman opened up a bit about her brother Jeffrey’s loss of life as an toddler 5 years earlier than she was even born. She mentioned she was at all times informed by each mother and father that “one thing occurred with the crib,” the place the infant’s physique “slid and received suffocated,” whereas her father’s mother and father had been babysitting. Silverman mentioned the household virtually by no means spoke about him.

When writing her memoir, she mentioned, she thought it was odd her mother and father — who divorced and barely agreed on something — spoke precisely the identical concerning the kid’s loss of life. She additionally discovered it curious that there have been by no means any lawsuits from the household for the crib firm.

“I’ll inform you an enormous bomb,” Silverman prefaced this subsequent bit, after the Rolling Stone reporter questioned whether or not her mother and father ever felt comfy speaking about Jeffrey earlier than they died.

Per the publication, Silverman mentioned that in 2022, her father got here to see the musical model of her Bedwetter memoir.  In it, she makes a joke about Jeffrey’s loss of life, one thing which seemingly prompted her dad to inform her what he believed occurred to the kid backstage.

“My dad says, ‘I at all times felt that he was crying or one thing, and my dad shook him. He shook him in a rage and killed him,’” mentioned Silverman — with the reporter noting that even the comic’s supervisor “gasped” when she made the reveal.

“As quickly as he mentioned it, it was like, ‘In fact, that is what occurred,’” Silverman continued. “His mom at all times stood by her husband. She watched him beat the s–t out of her son. I could not ask my mother, as a result of she was lifeless.”

Elsewhere within the interview, Silverman mentioned her father endured beatings, “mercilessly” as a boy — saying he had a “heartbreaking childhood.”

Silverman’s new Netflix standup particular, PostMortem, is out immediately.