Overview

• Sarah Silverman's Netflix special PostMortem, released May 20, 2025, explores the deaths of her parents while addressing a shocking family revelation about her infant brother's death.
• Silverman disclosed in a Rolling Stone interview that her father, Donald, revealed in 2022 he believed his own father killed three-month-old Jeffrey by shaking him in anger.
• The family had previously maintained that Jeffrey died in the 1950s from suffocation due to a crib defect, a story that Silverman now questions due to the lack of legal action against the crib manufacturer.
• Donald Silverman shared this revelation with Sarah backstage after attending five performances of her memoir-turned-musical, The Bedwetter, which included references to Jeffrey's death.
• The disclosure highlights intergenerational trauma in Silverman's family, with her father recounting his own experiences of severe physical abuse at the hands of his father.