Raven-Symone gets candid about her memories with her “Cosby Show” co-star Malcom Jamal-Warner, beloved for his role as Theodore Huxtable, for one of the first times since the actor’s in Costa Rica.
The 39-year-old actress who played Theo’s on-screen niece, Olivia, opened up ahead of her panel with wife Miranda Maday at the Teen Vogue Summit on Sept. 20, admitting she’s still processing the sudden loss. When news first broke that Warner died due to asphyxia at age 54, she shared in her that he “gave the best advice.”
“I haven’t talked about Malcolm yet?” Symone exclusively told our entertainment reporter, Courtney Tezeno, while holding back tears, before recalling the best advice she remembers. “When I was younger, and I was not married and just out in the publicHe was like, ‘Count how many days you actually drink.'”
“I was like, what do you mean?” she laughed. “He goes, ‘There’s seven days in a week if you’re drinking five days you have a problem,’” she recalled while laughing at Warner’s comment. “I was like, You’re right. Brother, you know what? Noted. That helps me manage anything, not just drinking. If I’m doing something, except for my game, I play that too many [days],” she joked.
“If I do anything, I count how many times I do it in a week, just to make sure I’m not obsessing overespecially food or something like that. But that was a good one,” she concluded.
Symone says all of Warner’s other brotherly advice is “more in-depth,” but she’s still grieving and “not emotionally” ready to talk about it yet.
During the Teen Summit panel titled “Who Are You When Everyone’s Watching?” Symone and her wife, who host “Tea Time with Raven & Miranda,” addressed the online hate and criticism they’ve received for their co-hosted podcast. The couple told us backstage how they balance work and home life together.
“We both are very vocal in what we need when we need it, and we also understand that we got into an industry together and need to make things happen,” Symone shared.
Maday added, “Our foundation is solidWe respect each other and love each other, so anything else that we’re having to navigate is secondary to that. So, we both know that if Raven says to me, like, I need a day where there’s no work, conversation, I respect that.”