Malcolm-Jamal Warner‘s mother, Pamela, is opening up about how their family is coping in the wake of the actor’s death.
In a sit-down with Good Morning America, she described how she’s been holding up since Warner’s passing in July.
Detailing that she let out a scream from the “bottom of [her] soul” that had neighbors running to her home, she recounted, “What came up and what came out was huge. It was an indescribable pain that resonated through my body.”
But Pamela told Robin Roberts she’s “at peace with everything that happened,” saying she believes this was her son’s “time” to “transition” from earth.
She also reminisced on the deep conversations they had throughout the years, adding, “I’m very grateful that I was chosen to be his mother.”
Pamela continued, “I think more than anything, I’m at peace with everything that happened. There was nothing left on the table.
“There was no shoulda, coulda woulda. ‘I wish I would have said this, I wish I would have done this.’ I don’t have that. I feel that our journey together as mother and son was complete.”
During the interview, Pamela also clarified some conflicting reports about the “Cosby Show” star’s death.
She shut down claims that Malcolm-Jamal died while trying to save his daughter, saying, “She was on shore. She was not in the water.”
Instead, she explained that when the actor was in the water at a beach in Limon, Costa Rica, with a friend, they were both caught in an undertow.
“They were in the water waist-deep, and there was an undertow. My son was not an experienced swimmer; he did not know how to deal with an undertow,” Pamela said, noting that his friend was able to “rescue himself.
In regards to his widow and her grandchild, she relayed that they are still deeply grieving.
“Children process differently,” Pamela said about her granddaughter. “She watched them resuscitate him, try to resuscitate him. She saw that, and I know that’s awfully, awfully traumatic.”
She added, “She loved her father dearly. She adored Papa. He was Papa. And so they’re both in deep grief.”