Karen Malina White played Charmaine Brown, friend to Cosby cousin Pam (Erika Alexander) on both The Cosby Show and its spinoff series, A Different World. White also dated Warner for seven years, beginning in the late 1990s.

The late Malcolm-Jamal Warner admitted his disappointment that The Cosby Show cast never got to reboot the classic sitcom. “We could have made a lot of money,” he told Jemele Hill in a resurfaced 2023 interview.

The death of Malcolm-Jamal Warner has come as a shock to the fellow The Cosby Show cast and their fans. The actor died on July 20 at the age of 54, reportedly due to drowning in Costa Rica.