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 picture of her 2017 marriage ceremony to Malcolm-Jamal, who died in July after drowning whereas on trip together 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 broad 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 snigger, nonetheless really feel the way in which he made room for each a part of me — each tear, each dream. Right this moment, in his honor, my daughter and I are launching River & Ember and formally opening The Warner Household Basis.”
Tenisha stated, “Collectively we stock the legacy my husband and I started — one which nurtures kids’s internal gentle and offers younger artists the liberty to create outdoors the traces. That is love, Nonetheless transferring. Nonetheless making. Nonetheless carrying us ahead.”
In her put up, Tenisha included a picture of an extended assertion in regards to 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 sort that our youngsters will carry as a legacy.”
She added, “River & Ember started with two easy forces: the regular move 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 transferring towards what issues.”
Malcolm-Jamal’s “spirit was an ember — glowing with encouragement, igniting risk in these round him. His means of seeing the world — that kids’s internal gentle is price tending with care and fidelity — is the heartbeat of every thing we create right here.”
Tenisha obtained hundreds of supportive messages within the feedback part.
“Merely stunning ❤️,” 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 objective past loss,” one follower wrote. “We love and help you Tenisha!”
Malcolm-Jamal’s “Not All Hood” podcast cohost Candace Kelley informed Us Weekly in a current cowl story that she final spoke to him as he was heading to Costa Rica for “an prolonged trip” together with his spouse and 8-year-old daughter.
“This was the man who’s like, ‘I gotta go, my daughter’s acquired her large celebration,’” Kelley recalled. “He was simply dad, a welcoming committee beholden to her. I bear in mind one evening he stated, ‘Oh my, my daughter needs to pitch a tent tonight and sleep beneath the celebrities.’ His household was the sunshine of his life.”