Bill Cosby He is crying the loss of his son on screen Malcolm-Jamal Warner.
“This reminds me of the call I received when I was recording the Cosby show and that I received a call, said my son, Ennis, had killed Bone,” said Cosby, 88. Us Weekly Through your representative, Andrew WyattMonday, July 21. “It’s devastating.”
Cosby’s son, Ennis, died in 1997 in a failed attemp The Cosby Show From 1984 to 1992. (In addition to Ennis, Cosby shares children Erika, Erinn, Ens and Evin with wife Stretcher. Ens died in 2018 at the age of 44 years after a battle against cancer. )
According to Wyatt, Cosby said he and Warner, who was also winner of Grammy, remained in touch and spoke only “three weeks ago an acting” he did in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
“He was very ecstatic about how the receiver of the crowd,” Cosby continued, according to Wyatt. “Malcolm was changing the world, humanizing the world through his performance, his music, his poetry and only his new podcast.”
Wyatt said User That Cosby praised Warner for his ability to follow for other teenagers, pointing out: “You never heard anything negative about the children actors of The Cosby Show. Without drugs, without alcohol, none of that. I just thought he was his television father, I never stopped being his father figure. “
The news was learned on Monday that Warner died at 54 years after drowning in Costa Rica. The president of the Chamber of Tourism and Commerce of the South Caribbean shared in a statement that Warner died in the Playa Grande in the Caribbean South, which has “strong currents and generates many waves.”
Preliminary investigation revealed that Warner “seemed to have entered the sea and was apparently swept by a current,” according to the Judicial Investigation Department in Costa Rica.
ABC News reported that Warner’s death declared asphyxiation.
Warner previously referred to Cosby as his mentor. When Cosby was accused of inappropriate sexual behavior by more than 60 women in 2015, Warner talked about the positive meetings he had with the comedian Three Life Life.
“Bill Cosby I know has been great for me and great for many people,” Warner said in a January 2015 interview with Billboard. “What he has done for comedy and television has legendary legs and history. What he has done for the community and black education has insignible bone. That is Bill Cosby that I know. I can’t talk about other things.”
He continued: “It is one of my mentors, and it is very influential and plays an important role in my life as a friend and mentor. Just as it is painful that any woman talks about sexual assault, whether truth or mentor is equally handsome”