The widow of Malcolm-Jamal Warner emotionally broke down in tears over The Cosby Show star's death amid her ugly .
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Warners Widow Mourns Drowning Amid Family Feud
The widow of Malcolm-Jamal Warner emotionally broke down in tears over The Cosby Show star's death amid her ugly prenup battle with his mother over $1.2million....
Tenisha Warner, 48, sat down for her first interview since the tragedy with on CBS mornings on Thursday as she got emotional over her husband's tragic drowning death at 54 last summer.
She said: 'The moments of that day, they occupy my body so deeply, so it’s really hard for me to relive what all of that was and to think about it.
'It just breaks me in a way that makes it hard for me to stay steady... I can’t remember the details. I think [it’s because] my body went through shock.'
Malcolm-Jamal died in July 2025 after being caught in a riptide while on a family vacation with Tenisha and their now nine-year-old daughter in Costa Rica.
The widow said: '[His death was] the worst day of my life, feels unfair. All I can think about is my daughter, and what I needed to do to continue being her mother and be her only parent.'
The widow of Malcolm-Jamal Warner emotionally broke down in tears over The Cosby Show star's death amid her ugly prenup battle with his mother over $1.2million
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Pictured clockwise from top left: Malcolm-Jamal Warner as Theodore 'Theo' Huxtable, Lisa Bonet as Denise Huxtable, Phylicia Rashad as Clair Hanks Huxtable, Tempestt Bledsoe as Vanessa Huxtable, Keshia Knight Pulliam as Rudy Huxtable, (center) Bill Cosby as Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable
Tenisha said that 'he is here' and with her and her daughter 'always,' and that she is uninterested in moving out of the home they shared together because the 'memories' are all there.
She got tearful as she explained: 'I can’t be in my own home without feeling the loss, but I can’t walk away.'
Tenisha Warner, 48, sat down for her first interview since the tragedy with Gayle King on CBS mornings on Thursday as she got emotional over her husband's tragic drowning death at 54 last summer
She said: 'It just breaks me in a way that makes it hard for me to stay steady... I can’t remember the details. I think [it’s because] my body went through shock'
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Malcolm-Jamal died in July 2025 after being caught in a riptide while on a family vacation with Tenisha and their now nine-year-old daughter in Costa Rica. he is pictured in 2023 in LA
The widow said: '[His death was] the worst day of my life, feels unfair. All I can think about is my daughter, and what I needed to do to continue being her mother and be her only parent'
The widow was asked by King if she was close to her mother in law as she simply replied: 'You know'
The widow named her late spouse's mother in a lawsuit in Georgia's DeKalb County Superior Court on Monday, according to documents reviewed by The Daily Mail.
Warner made her filings a year to the day after the .
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County Court and reviewed by the Daily Mail that she is due 'at least the total amount of $1,276,042.46 in addition to prejudgment and postjudgment interest, attorneys’ fees, and costs.'
