Bourdain sought aid

AT THE BEHEST of Anthony Bourdain’s girlfriend Asia Argento, actress Rose McGowan released a heart-wrenching open letter Monday addressing misconceptions about the chef’s shocking suicide.

McGowan said the food writer and TV host reached out for help before his death but somehow stumbled when it came to taking his doctor’s unspecified “advice.”

She also revealed Bourdain and Argento had an open relationship and said any blame for the tragedy belonged to the “stigma” of mental illness — not a girlfriend or anyone else in his life.

“In the beginning of their relationship, Anthony told a mutual friend, he’d ‘never met anyone who wanted to die more than him.’ And through a lot of this last year, Asia did want the pain to stop,” McGowan wrote in the letter, obtained by the Daily News.

“Thankfully, she did the work to get help,” McGowan wrote. “Anthony’s depression didn’t let him.”