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BILL COSBY SHATTERED: SAYS LOSING MALCOLM-JAMAL WARNER FEELS JUST LIKE BURYING HIS OWN SON
Bill Cosby, now 88, is reeling from the tragic death of actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner—his TV son Theo from The Cosby Show—who drowned at age 54 while vacationing in Costa Rica. But for Cosby, the pain runs deeper than headlines. It cuts straight to his soul.
“Getting that call about Malcolm,” Cosby said through his longtime spokesman, “felt like that night in 1997 all over again. The night I lost my son, Ennis.”
Ennis Cosby was just 27 years old when he was murdered in cold blood on the side of the 405 freeway in Los Angeles. He had pulled over to fix a flat tire.
While doing so, an 18-year-old drifter named Mikhail Markhasev approached him in an attempted robbery. When Ennis didn’t move fast enough, the man pulled the trigger—shooting him once in the head. Ennis died on the spot.
It was a random act of violence that ripped Cosby’s world apart.
Now, 28 years later, losing Malcolm feels like it’s happening all over again. “It’s the same pain,” Cosby said. “The same shock. The same scream in the night.”
Malcolm-Jamal Warner wasn’t just a co-star. He was family. Ennis and Malcolm had grown up together. They played together off-camera. And in Cosby’s mind, the bond they shared transcended blood. “Malcolm never stopped being a son to me,” Cosby said. “He was respectful, brilliant, and more talented than most people even knew.”
In the days before Malcolm’s death, Cosby recalled they had spoken. Warner had just wrapped a concert performance and was full of life. “He was doing what he loved when he died,” Cosby added. “He was with his family.”
As news of Warner’s death spread, Cosby said he immediately called Phylicia Rashad. The two reflected on all the cast had been through. “Everybody’s leaving,” Cosby whispered.
But it’s that call. That phone call. The one Cosby received in 1997. The same call that haunts him now.
Losing Ennis was the most devastating moment of Cosby’s life. Now, losing Malcolm—his second son in spirit—reopens a wound that never fully closed.
“People don’t understand,” he said softly. “This wasn’t just acting. We lived that show.
~Lewis McFadden