Sarah Silverman Reveals Grandfather Allegedly Killed Infant Brother

Sarah Silverman revealed a tragic family secret that her infant brother Jeffrey, who died at three months old, was not suffocated by accident as previously believed, but allegedly killed by her grandfather. For years, Silverman was told Jeffrey had suffocated after slipping through a crib, a story she accepted despite inconsistencies such as the absence of a lawsuit against the crib manufacturer. In 2022, after watching Silverman's musical "The Bedwetter," her father Donald confided that his father violently shook Jeffrey in a rage, causing his death. Silverman described her grandfather as abusive and said her grandmother stood by him despite the incident. Her father passed away in 2023, nearly a year after revealing this truth to her. This revelation profoundly changed Silverman's understanding of her family's past, which she previously recounted in her memoir and later dramatized in her musical.