Malcolm-Jamal Warner's mom is breaking her silence about his tragic drowning, saying that she managed to find some peace with what happened to the actor.
Warner tragically drowned. Appearing on "Good Morning America," Pamela Warner shared how the family is doing. she said when she learned her son had drowned, she let out an unnatural scream. She said, "What came up and what came out was huge. It was an indescribable pain that resonated through my body."
However, Warner has made peace with the passing of Malcolm-Jamal, saying she realized it was his time. "That was the manner in which he was to transition, and this is what I believe and what I feel," she told Roberts.
Pamela said that she was glad that she could be his mother.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner Dies
Pamela continued, "I think more than anything, I'm at peace with everything that happened. There was nothing left on the table. There was no shoulda, coulda woulda. 'I wish I would have said this, I wish I would have done this - I don't have that. I feel that our journey together as mother and son was complete."
Pamela also clarified that Malcolm-Jamal didn't drown trying to save his daughter. She had been on the shore at the time. The actor and a friend were in the water at a beach in Limon, Costa Rica.
"They were in the water waist-deep, and there was an undertow. My son was not an experienced swimmer; he did not know how to deal with an undertow," Pamela said.
The family, especially Michael-Jamal's children, is processing his death.
"Children process differently," Pamela said. "She watched them resuscitate him. Try to resuscitate him. She saw that. And I know that's awfully, awfully traumatic. She loved her father dearly. She adored Papa. He was Papa. And so they're both in deep grief."
Meanwhile, the widow of Michael-Jamal also weighed in.
"I can still hear my husband's laugh, still feel the way he made room for every part of me — every tear, every dream," she wrote.
"Today, in his honor, my daughter and I are launching River & Ember and officially opening The Warner Family Foundation. Together we carry the legacy my husband and I began — one that nurtures children's inner light and gives young artists the freedom to create outside the lines."
