White, 48, noted that he's still looking back at his memories of their time together following Warner's unexpected death. They had a mutual acquaintance in the late actress Michelle Thomas, who appeared on both Warner's The Cosby Show and White's Family Matters. Thomas died of cancer in December 1998 at age 30.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner was notoriously private about his personal life in recent years, but that wasn’t always the case. The actor, who tragically died from an accidental drowning during a family vacation to Costa Rica on July 20, had several high-profile romances with actress girlfriends before settling down to become a family man.

Five years before Family Matters debuted on ABC in 1989, The Cosby Show was entertaining NBC audiences with its stories about the Huxtable family: Cliff (Bill Cosby), Clair (Phylicia Rashad ...