Asia Argentohas spoken out about an article compiling a list of times her late boyfriendAnthony Bourdainpublicly brought up committing suicidebefore his death, calling it a “heart wrenching read.”
“I never knew about this obsession of his. He never told me,” she wrote on social media, sharing a link to the document, which was released earlier this month.
The three-page piece begins with a description of a 2016 episode ofParts Unknownthat took place in Buenos Aires, in which Bourdain filmed a therapy session where he said he felt “very isolated” anddescribed his lifestyle as “crushingly lonely.”
During the session, he also spoke about how something as trivial as eating a bad meal at an airport could send him “into a spiral of depression that can last for days,” before adding that he felt he’d “always” had that personality trait.
The article then went on to detail 19 separate instances where the late chef publicly mentioned killing himself. The first listed instance occurred in 2000, while the most recent took place in October 2017.
Bourdain, who was founddead of suicidein a hotel room in France last month, also specifically mentioned killing himself in a hotel room twice in the list of complied quotes.
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Argento, an Italian actress prominent in the #MeToo movement, and Bourdain hadbeen in a relationship for more than a year. The pair met while filmingParts Unknownin 2016 and began dating a year later. Argento, 42, collaborated with Bourdain on his CNN show, and recentlydirected an episode set in Hong Kong.
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In one of Bourdain’s final interviews before his death, the chefreflected on a low pointin his relationship with Argento.
“The worst thing Asia ever said to me, she’d had a bad day, she was doing a play in uh, Turin? Somewhere in Italy. And she was rehearsing and she’d had a really bad day with the director. Dude, of course. And she comes home and she’s f— furious,” he remarked during a Februaryinterview withPopula, which wasconducted a few daysafter PEOPLEtraveled with himto Lafayette, Louisiana for thefilming of an episode ofParts Unknown.
“I do not need to win,” Bourdain explained in the interview. “I am not a competitive person. I need to survive.”
“We are here to ask those who are angry and grieving the loss of Anthony to find a healthy outlet for their pain,” the statement continued. “Asia is a survivor, just as we are, and her fame and outward show of strength does not make her any less vulnerable. Asia is not a headline — she is a human being, and she is in horrific pain.”
If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), text “help” to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 or go tosuicidepreventionlifeline.org.
source: people.com
