Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s TV father is addressing his tragic dying.
Hours after it was reported that the actor died at 54 by fatally drowning in Costa Rica whereas on trip together with his household, Invoice Cosby’s rep, Andrew Wyatt, shared how the comic took the information.
Wyatt advised The Put up that Cosby “spoke to Phylicia Rashad earlier today and they reminisced about Malcolm.”
Cosby starred as Cliff Huxtable, the dad of Warner’s character Theodore “Theo” Huxtable in “The Cosby Show” for 8 seasons, from 1984 to 1992. Rashad, 77, performed Clair Huxtable, Theo’s mother.
Based on Wyatt, Cosby shared that his childhood buddy not too long ago handed away, noting that listening to of Warner’s dying added to his ache.
The actor, who simply celebrated his 88th birthday, looks like “everybody’s leaving,” Wyatt advised The Put up.
The star’s spokesperson additionally shared that Cosby advised him, “While I was their TV dad, I never stopped being a father to them.”
The actor additionally in contrast Warner’s passing to dropping his personal son, Ennis Cosby, who was murdered in 1997.
Listening to the information “reminded him of the same call he received when his son died,” Wyatt added.
He additionally shared a heartwarming story of a full-circle second with Warner.
“He started with the Cosby show, he was a teenager,” Wyatt defined to The Put up, including that Cosby gave Warner his upright bass named after his solely son in 2016, greater than 20 years after “The Cosby Show” ended.
“And he says, ‘So his legacy would be that he humanized the world,” Wyatt said of Cosby’s son, including that now Warner’s useless and “he would humanize the world even more.”
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