Sarah Silverman is going public for the first time with the shocking story her father told her about her only brother's death. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, the comedian and actor, 54, said she and her siblings grew up believing Jeffrey died as an infant because of a crib accident.

Silverman’s new Netflix special, PostMortem, deals with her parents’ deaths. Her mother Beth died in 2015, while her father Donald died in 2023. Silverman has two sisters, Susan and Laura, the latter of whom once played her sister on The Sarah Silverman Project .

“My dad had a heartbreaking childhood,” Silverman told the publication. “His dad beat the s**t out of him every day, just mercilessly. He had a younger brother who wasn’t touched. His father made the kids call him Mr. Silverman.”