Billy Crystal doesn't trust God after Pacific Palisades fire and Rob Reiner's death - BERITAJA

Billy Crystal nary longer trusts God.

Following the 2025 nonaccomplishment of his location successful the Pacific Palisades wildfires and the sidesplitting of his longtime collaborator, Rob Reiner, the 78-year-old character has a newfound skepticism, he told “CBS Sunday Morning” analogous Tracy Smith successful an question and reply that aired past weekend.

Smith asked Crystal if he had been talking to God complete these past mates of years, fixed that he recounted his conversations pinch God successful his 2004 Tony Award-winning play “700 Sundays” and he is now promoting his one-man Broadway show, “860,” which premieres Oct. 21 astatine the Imperial Theatre successful New York City.

“No, ‘cause I don’t spot him,” Crystal responded. “Too galore bad things person happened. The Earth is successful bad shape. This is simply a weird, scary time, truthful no. Not anymore.”

This drastic alteration of religion comes aft Crystal and his woman Janice Crystal (née Goldfinger) mislaid their 1930s ranch location successful the Palisades wildfire successful January 2025. The couple, who person been joined since 1970, purchased the stucco location successful 1979 to raise their daughters Jenny, now 53, and Lindsay, 48.

Not overmuch remained aft the blazing devastation, prevention for immoderate rocks pinch uplifting engraved words for illustration “welcome,” “patience” and “dream” that the family laid about the plot decades prior, he shared pinch People successful a screen communicative published online Wednesday.

“Lindsay recovered the ‘laughter’ rock,” Crystal said. “So the truth that that was the first point [we found], we’ll beryllium OK.”

The Palisades occurrence inspired “860,” which is titled aft his location reside and touches connected themes of luck and fate.

“I started reasoning about this successful a measurement that I deliberation was separating maine from the symptom of what was happening,” Crystal told the outlet. “It was treatment maine astatine the aforesaid time.”

He underscores that the communicative is not about the occurrence itself, alternatively a travel that highlights resilience, laughter and emotion and “facing things you ne'er thought were possible,” he shared.

The New York born-and-bred comedian first opened up about individual symptom successful “700 Sundays,” his autobiographical one-man play that touched connected the decease of his father, who died of a bosom onslaught erstwhile Crystal was 15. The accumulation won the Tony Award for typical theatrical event.

Reiner and Crystal met successful 1976 connected the group of the CBS sitcom “All successful the Family” and became accelerated friends. Encouragement from his longtime confidante and collaborator helped the comedian constitute about the nonaccomplishment of his beloved location earlier Reiner’s tragic sidesplitting successful December 2025 alongside his wife, Michele, successful Brentwood.

The “Monsters, Inc.” sound character called their chemistry “undefinable.”

“I knew it from the first clip we met. I knew it from that first week: ‘This is going to beryllium a everlastingly thing, I conscionable cognize it,’” Crystal told People. “We laughed. We talked about each kinds of things. We were ever willing successful what each different was doing and grateful that we some were getting chances to do thing moreover arsenic we went our abstracted ways successful projects.”

The character besides shared that he was not the first prime erstwhile it came to the domiciled of Harry successful “When Harry Met Sally…,” but aft considering different actors — among them Albert Brooks, Tom Hanks and Michael Keaton — Reiner approached Crystal arsenic if it were a segment from the 1989 romanticist drama itself.

“One time the telephone came, and he was almost upset by saying, ‘I ever knew it was you,’” Crystal said.

In preparing for the premiere of “860,” which runs until Jan. 3, Crystal recalled a little infinitesimal wherever he forgot Reiner was gone.

“I ran upstairs to the dressing room, and my first thought was: ‘I sewage to telephone Rob and show him,’” Crystal said. “I don’t cognize if I don’t want that to support happening aliases I do want it to support happening.”