Keshia Knight Pulliam has broken her silence about the death of Malcolm-Jamal Warner, her co-star on “The Cosby Show.”
Warner died July 20 at the age of 54 after drowning off the coast of Costa Rica while on vacation with his wife and daughter.
“A week ago I lost my big brother but I gained an angel… I love you… I miss you… We got our girls. ❤️,” she captioned a July 27 post on Instagram.
The post featured Warner playing guitar at City Winery and ended with a brief clip of two girls walking alongside a horse. It’s not clear who the girls are. TODAY.com has reached out to Pulliam for comment.
Knight Pulliam played Rudy Huxtable on “The Cosby Show,” the precocious younger sister of Warner’s Theo Huxtable.
In the wake of Warner’s death, Bill Cosby said Warner “was always embracing relationships with everybody he worked with,” while Raven-Symoné, who joined the classic sitcom in its sixth season in 1989, also honored Warner.
“Words cannot express the pain and sadness and surprise that I feel with the recent loss of MJW,” she said in an audio message posted July 22 on Instagram next to the image of a white dove and the words “I Love You.”
“He was the big brother, he was a beacon, he was one of the most multifaceted talented men — so gentle,” she continued. “And my heart and soul and hugs and kisses go out to his daughter and his wife and his mother.”
“He gave the best advice. He gave the best hugs and his smile will always be a huge bright f—— white smile in my head forever,” she continued while breaking into tears.
“I love you and I know you’re watching over all of us now. Bye, Malcolm,” she ended the message.
During his last appearance on TODAY in June 2024, Warner talked about the influence of “The Cosby Show.”
“My history, the way I came into this business, was a show that had such an impact on culture, everything. White America, Black America, America,” he said.
“And just as that show and that family can not represent all of Black people … there’s so many of those lanes that coexist and even within those different lanes of the Black community, we can acknowledge each other and even if we don’t agree we can still acknowledge, respectfully, that we are all part of the Black community.”
In one of his final interviews, Warner also reflected on what he hoped his legacy would be.
“There is part of me that, I will be able to leave this Earth knowing, and people knowing, that I was a good person,” he said on “Hot and Bothered with Melyssa Ford” in May.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner, the actor the actor best known for playing Theo Huxtable on “The Cosby Show” has died at the age of 54 after a tragic accident.
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