B Mac’s friend and comedian turned radio personality Steve Harvey refused to believe the Bernie passed. Even thought Steve new Mac was sick with pneumonia, he refused to believe he was dead after he received a text message.

Speaking to talk show host Larry King as part of a special Tribute to Bernie Mac show, he says, “I was having breakfast at the Peninsula Hotel (in Chicago). And we had gotten a text message. And, of course, we just – we had written it off as the rumor – the same rumor that had happened the week before. So we didn’t think anything of it.

“And then Reverend Al Sharpton walked into the restaurant and came up to me and said, ‘I’m so sorry about your boy’.”

“And I was looking at him, ‘My boy?’ And then he said, ‘It’s true, man. Bernie Mac passed’.”