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Bill Cosby is reacting to the sudden death of "The Cosby Show" alum Malcolm-Jamal Warner ... and it's taking him back to a dark time in his life -- his son's murder.

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00:00We broke the story yesterday about the tragic death of Malcolm Jamal Warner.

00:06And I got to tell you, there are moments when you see a reaction to a death where it defines a life.

00:17And it has to do just with the enormity of the moment.

00:21And we have seen this over the years.

00:24I mean, I remember when we broke Michael Jackson's death, when we broke the death of Prince,

00:28and others, that it just had an enormous impact on people.

00:34This death had an enormous impact for a variety of reasons.

00:39And one of them is cultural.

00:41But it really hit people hard.

00:45So lots and lots of people commented.

00:49You might be interested in this.

00:51Bill Cosby gave us a comment.

00:54And that's interesting, because obviously Cosby has had big issues on his part.

01:02And he wanted to come out and talk about his castmate.

01:08And I think this is just really interesting.

01:10Here's what he said.

01:11He said, getting that call reminded him, reminded him, meaning me, this was through his publicist,

01:18of being in the studio, taping the Cosby show, getting the call that Ennis, his son, had been murdered.

01:27His son had been murdered near the 405 freeway in Los Angeles.

01:33It felt the same way when I got the call about Malcolm.

01:38Malcolm was changing the world, talking about a big concert in Minneapolis, so excited.

01:44It was like Ennis.

01:47They played together, come to Massachusetts property, never heard family members laugh

01:54so hard.

01:55They were amazing together.

01:57Malcolm left us something so great that it's going to continue to change the world.

02:02Every young man wanted to be like Malcolm that grew up in projects, have a family like

02:08the Huxtables.

02:10Malcolm was brilliant.

02:11I think that's just really interesting.

02:13I mean, it almost seems like Cosby looked at Malcolm as a son, you know?

02:19And that's what it felt like.

02:20And comparing him to Ennis.

02:21Comparing him to Ennis, you know?

02:24I mean, he saw both of them as sons.

02:27I mean, that's how I'm reading that.

02:30Culturally, this was a huge moment where you could see him on that show, and it just

02:39blew open all the stereotypes, right?

02:42Yeah, I mean, you got to think, you know, like hip-hop hadn't formulated as big when

02:47the Cosby show was on air.

02:48So, you know, that was, you know, inadvertently, he was a role model.

02:53Malcolm was a role model as the character for Theo.

02:56You know, we actually talked to Ice Cube, and Cube actually conveyed that, you know,

03:01Malcolm did a lot of great things with that Theo character, you know?

03:04This is really interesting.

03:05This is Ice Cube at LAX.

03:08You know, like, he kind of changed the paradigm with the Cosby show, with the stuff he was

03:13doing.

03:13He was an actor who really brought, you know, realness to television on, you know, playing

03:24a great character, playing a great son on the Cosby show.

03:27He did a few good things, you know, outside of the Cosby show.

03:32Malcolm and Eddie was great.

03:33Hi, my name is Adrienne from Chicago, and I grew up watching the Cosby show, and I do

03:41recall back when the unfortunate incident happened with Bill Cosby's son, and I just remember

03:47watching it growing up, thinking, it must be so hard to go to set every day knowing you

03:51lost your son, at least you have, like, a kind of a surrogate son with the Theo character.

03:56So now to relive that trauma all over again with his death, I thought that's just heartbreaking.

04:01I'm definitely feeling it.

04:03I know everyone's feeling it.

04:05No, they are.

04:06By the way, you know, we told you he died.

04:09He was pulled under by a rip current and a riptide, and they tried saving him.

04:15They couldn't.

04:16There are stories out now that there were no lifeguards in the area, but look, we don't

04:22know what the situation is there, whether they generally have lifeguards in the area he

04:27was in or not, whichever it is.

04:29It was just really, really a tragic death.

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