Bill Cosby reacts to the sudden death of his ‘The Cosby Show’ costar Malcolm-Jamal Warner who tragically drowned in Costa Rica at age 54
Bill Cosby is mourning the loss of his on-screen son Malcolm-Jamal Warner.
“This reminds me of the call I got when I was taping The Cosby Show and I got a call saying that my son, Ennis, had been murdered,” Cosby, 88, told Us Weekly via his rep, Andrew Wyatt, on Monday, July 21. “It’s just devastating.”
Cosby’s son Ennis died in 1997 in a failed robbery attempt at the age of 27, while he and Warner costarred as Cliff and Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show from 1984 to 1992. (In addition to Ennis, Cosby shares kids Erika, Erinn, Ensa and Evin with wife Camille. Ensa died in 2018 at the age of 44 after a battle with cancer. )
Per Wyatt, Cosby said that he and Warner, who was also a Grammy winner, kept in touch and spoke just “three weeks ago about a performance” he did in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
