Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s widow, Tenisha Warner, is in want of dire monetary help, in response to a GoFundMe created on her behalf.
Tenisha’s shut good friend, Future Rael, created the GoFundMe, noting how Tenisha was left the only real supplier for her and Malcolm’s younger daughter after the “Cosby Present” alum tragically died in July 2025.
“I’ve watched Tenisha spend this yr grieving the love of her life whereas honoring the promise they made to one another, to homeschool their nine-year-old daughter,” Rael wrote. “Each single day she reveals up for her baby as if her personal world had not fallen aside, and nonetheless makes positive breakfast is on the desk.”
She shared that the home Tenisha and the late actor shared unexpectedly flooded and he or she’s needed to rebuild. She additionally referenced Tenisha’s court docket battle along with her mother-in-law, Pamela Warner, over his funds.
“Each room holds their recollections, with no house to actually mourn, as a result of the calls for have by no means paused: authorized issues that started inside weeks of Malcolm’s passing, monetary weight carried alone, a home to place again collectively, and their daughter to care for each single day,” Rael wrote.
“She has stretched each useful resource she has and borrowed from individuals who love her simply to maintain one foot in entrance of the opposite.”
In response to Rael, Malcolm by no means signed his up to date property plan that will have offered for Tenisha and their daughter — who has by no means been publicly recognized — earlier than he unexpectedly drowned whereas the household was on trip in Costa Rica. Tenisha additionally stepped again from her profession as a physician of psychology to be a stay-at-home mother, leaving her with out an earnings.
“As a single mother now, Tenisha carries the price of resolving Malcolm’s property alone as a result of asking for assist doesn’t come naturally to her,” Rael wrote. “That’s the reason the individuals who love her have launched this marketing campaign: to assist Tenisha honor Malcolm’s needs and his legacy whereas offering stability for his or her daughter, his solely baby, and the household he beloved most.”
“The funds will assist ease the monetary pressure, cowl the bills she is now going through, and supply safety for Tenisha and her daughter as they work towards resolving Malcolm’s affairs,” she added.
Final month, Tenisha filed a lawsuit in opposition to Pamela — who’s the trustee of the Warner Household Belief — over a prenuptial settlement dispute. The swimsuit claimed that Tenisha is entitled to $1.2 million, which is what Malcolm allegedly promised her of their 2022 prenuptial settlement, per TMZ.
Tenisha instructed Web page Six in an announcement in regards to the lawsuit, “For the final yr, I’ve tried to privately settle my beloved husband’s difficult property and honor his final needs. Malcolm had each intention to supply for our nine-year-old daughter and me.”
In response to Tenisha, the actor was “near finalizing” a brand new property plan to switch the plan created in 1996 “when he was 26 years outdated” — 20 years earlier than they met and nicely earlier than they welcomed their daughter.
“Sadly, he was unable to take action earlier than we misplaced him,” she stated. “I’ve been struggling to look after our daughter as a single mother and now as her sole supplier. Legally, I had no alternative however to take motion to guard our rights earlier than any potential statute of limitations expired.”
Malcolm died after being “caught by a excessive present” at Costa Rica’s Playa Grande seaside in Cahuita, Limón. He was declared useless on the scene after paramedics carried out CPR on him.
He was 54 years outdated.
