Former TV Dad Invoice Cosby is talking out after the demise of Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who performed his son, Theo, on the favored Eighties sitcom “The Cosby Present.”
Warner died this previous weekend of unintended drowning off the coast of Limon, Costa Rica. He was 54.
After the information broke, Cosby informed People by his spokesman, Andrew Wyatt, that Warner’s demise “reminded him of the identical name he acquired” in 1997 when his solely son, Ennis William Cosby, was murdered throughout an tried theft on a Los Angeles freeway ramp.
Wyatt stated Warner and Ennis performed collectively after they have been younger and that Cosby and Warner “spoke on a regular basis” earlier than his demise.
“He discovered a method to discuss Malcolm despite the fact that he was unhappy,” Wyatt stated of Cosby, including that the actor has hung out reminiscing about Warner together with his former TV spouse Phylicia Rashad.
As well as, Wyatt told the New York Post that Cosby informed him he thought of his relationship together with his youthful co-stars essential to him.
“Whereas I used to be their TV dad, I by no means stopped being a father to them,” Wyatt quoted Cosby.
Cosby did a cellphone interview with CBS Information reporter Jericka Duncan the place he praised Warner’s work ethic.
“He was by no means afraid to go to his room and examine. He knew his traces and that he was fairly snug even with the rising pains of being a young person,” Cosby stated, including that he and Warner final spoke three months in the past.
Though Warner did stay involved with Cosby, there have been challenges after the comic was accused of rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment by greater than 60 girls.
Cosby was the first celebrity tried and convicted within the #MeToo period and spent almost three years at a state jail close to Philadelphia earlier than the next courtroom overturned the conviction and launched him in 2021.
In a 2015 interview with JS, Warner in contrast Cosby’s scenario to these of Woody Allen and Roman Polanski, who’ve each confronted allegations of their very own.
“Once we discuss Woody Allen, we don’t discuss his controversy. Once we discuss Roman Polanski now, that’s now not a part of the dialog. So if that’s the way it goes, then I hope the identical shall be of ‘The Cosby Present,’” Warner stated.
A couple of months later, in an interview with BET, Warner took the identical mindset towards Allen and Polanski, however famous “It’s very clear the crimes they’ve dedicated, however there’s nobody who’s calling for Woody’s films to be pulled off the air.”
Nonetheless, he admitted he couldn’t defend his former co-star’s offscreen actions.
“I’m in no place to defend [Cosby], as a result of I can’t,” he stated. “Nor will I throw him below the bus,” he added.
