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

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Set us as preferred Billy Crystal no longer trusts God.Following the 2025 loss of his home in the Pacific Palisades wildfires and the killing of his longtime collaborator, Rob Reiner, the 78-year-old actor has a newfound skepticism, he told “CBS Sunday Morning” correspondent Tracy Smith in an interview that aired last weekend.

Smith asked Crystal if he had been talking to God over these last couple of years, given that he recounted his conversations with God in his 2004 Tony Award-winning play “700 Sundays” and he is now promoting his one-man Broadway show, “860,” which premieres Oct.21 at the Imperial Theatre in New York City.“No, ‘cause I don’t trust him,” Crystal responded.

“Too many bad things have happened.The Earth is in bad shape.

This is a weird, scary time, so no.Not anymore.” This drastic change of faith comes after Crystal and his wife Janice Crystal (née Goldfinger) lost their 1930s ranch house in the Palisades wildfire in January 2025.

The couple, who have been married since 1970, purchased the stucco home in 1979 to raise their daughters Jenny, now 53, and Lindsay, 48.Not much remained after the blazing devastation, save for some rocks with uplifting engraved words like “welcome,” “patience” and “dream” that the family laid around the garden decades prior, he shared with People in a cover story published online Wednesday.“Lindsay found the ‘laughter’ rock,” Crystal said.

“So the fact that that was the first thing [we found], we’ll be OK.” Television The Tony Award-winning 2004 stage show is captured for HBO ‘to document for my kids and my grandkids’ his early family history.The Palisades fire inspired “860,” which is titled after his home address and touches on themes of luck and fate.“I started thinking about this in a way that I think was sepa...