The comedian was told that her 3-month-old brother’s death was due to a crib malfunction. Well into adulthood, her dad made a heartbreaking confession.

Sarah Silverman is going public for the first time with the shocking story her father told her about her only brother’s death.

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 .