Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s widow, Tenisha Warner, has revealed her identification and addressed his tragic demise earlier this 12 months.
Tenisha took to Instagram on Friday, September 12, to share a joyful photograph of her 2017 marriage ceremony to Malcolm-Jamal, who died in July after drowning whereas on trip along with his household in Costa Rica. Her late husband was 54.
“Thanks for holding us in a lot love throughout this tender time,” Tenisha wrote in a caption. “Tomorrow marks our anniversary — and my coronary heart is vast open. For the primary time, I’m sharing a glimpse of the love that started all of it.”
She continued, “I can nonetheless hear my husband’s snort, nonetheless really feel the way in which he made room for each a part of me — each tear, each dream. At the moment, in his honor, my daughter and I are launching River & Ember and formally opening The Warner Household Basis.”
Tenisha mentioned, “Collectively we feature the legacy my husband and I started — one which nurtures youngsters’s inside gentle and provides younger artists the liberty to create exterior the strains. That is love, Nonetheless shifting. Nonetheless making. Nonetheless carrying us ahead.”
In her put up, Tenisha included a picture of an extended assertion concerning the new enterprise, writing, “River & Ember was born not solely from my information as a health care provider of psychology, however from my very own journey with grief and love. It’s about creating rituals that outlast us — the type that our youngsters will carry as a legacy.”
She added, “River & Ember started with two easy forces: the regular circulate that carries us ahead, and the quiet heat that retains us alive inside. My husband embodied each. His presence was a river — regular, positive, and at all times shifting towards what issues.”
Malcolm-Jamal’s “spirit was an ember — glowing with encouragement, igniting chance in these round him. His means of seeing the world — that youngsters’s inside gentle is price tending with care and fidelity — is the heartbeat of all the things we create right here.”
Tenisha acquired 1000’s of supportive messages within the feedback part.
“Merely lovely ❤️,” remarked Keshia Knight Pulliam, who starred with Malcolm-Jamal in The Cosby Present, whereas the musician Questlove posted 5 prayer emojis.
“A testomony that real love creates function past loss,” one follower wrote. “We love and help you Tenisha!”
Malcolm-Jamal’s “Not All Hood” podcast cohost Candace Kelley instructed Us Weekly in a current cowl story that she final spoke to him as he was heading to Costa Rica for “an prolonged trip” along with his spouse and 8-year-old daughter.
“This was the man who’s like, ‘I gotta go, my daughter’s received her massive get together,’” Kelley recalled. “He was simply dad, a welcoming committee beholden to her. I keep in mind one night time he mentioned, ‘Oh my, my daughter needs to pitch a tent tonight and sleep below the celebs.’ His household was the sunshine of his life.”
