Jaleel White ‘at a loss for words’ remembering Malcolm-Jamal Warner

Actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who died on Sunday in an accidental drowning while he was on family vacation in Costa Rica, was loved by the young actor Jaleel White.

“Malcolm and I were peers in industry,” said White Additional at the first of HAPPY Gilmore 2, When asked what the 54 -year -old man had meant for him. “I mean, really, I can’t even say that. Like, I grew up looking at him. He was ahead of me in the game. I’m waiting for a little more details because it was just a very disturbing relationship, just accidentally that – you somehow caught my words.”

White, 48, noted that he was still looking at his memories of their time together after the unexpected death of Warner. They had mutual knowledge in the late actress Michelle Thomas, who appeared on the two Warner The Cosby Show and white The family counts. Thomas died of cancer in December 1998 at the age of 30.

“Malcolm was the first former child actor that my mother even let me go out late at night after 11 p.m., and I had a very close relationship with him and Michelle Thomas,” said White. “Let them both rest in peace.”

The actor better known as Steve Urkel gave a context to his relationship with Warner in his memories in 2024, Grow Urkel.

White recalled that when Thomas joined for the first time The family countsAs a girlfriend of Urkel Myra Monkhouse, she went out with Warner.

“Malcolm would visit the set from time to time, and a night after a live recording, Malcolm and Michelle invited me to join them during a festival of the music industry which went late in the evening. I did not go to the rear seat of Mercedes de Malcolm as a happy third wheel. Night, feeling cultivated and independent was quite memory.”

He also wrote that his mother and his Malcolm become friends, which could be the reason why White’s mother allowed her end of the evening with the celebrity he “admired”. It was also so that he was disputed to help Warner find a young celebrity to Raper in a project on which he worked.

“Now, I loved hip-hop as much as the next kid,” said White, “but promoting abstinence through the rap supported by the company was not the best image for me, you still know? Glasses, and I did what I was led by Malcolm.”

In his book, White deplored that he “was not ready for this lively video in the infamy on the Internet for eternity without positive effect on my image or my pockets, but you live and you learn.”

And, yes, it’s still there.

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“While I am certainly a defender of safe sex, this guy made me hit direct abstinence as an excited 11th year boy,” wrote White. “My mother had prepared me for being such a dedicated pleasure that I was capable of complete performance that went against my own values.”

But the experience does not seem to have attenuated the vision of White de Warner.

In his new interview, White asked that Warner can remember him for more than the emblematic work he has done in his youth. He had continued to play, although he also produced, organized a podcast, written poetry and created music.

“So,” said White, “please remember him as a poet, a award-winning musician with Grammy Awards and an actor who did much more than playing in a sitcom when he was a child.”