Asia Argento
The late chef’s girlfriend breaks her silence in an emotional new interview
IN BETWEEN TEARS, ASIA ARGENTO, the girlfriend of the esteemed late chef Anthony Bourdain, has opened up about the moment she found out her partner had died – and discussed intimate details of their two-year relationship.
Shortly after news broke of the culinary great’s death by suicide on June 8, the Italian actress faced backlash for pictures showing her getting close to a journalist friend just days before Bourdain’s body was found.
“People say I murdered him. They say I killed him,” she said through tears in a Sept. 25 interview with Dailymail TV. “People need to think that he killed himself for something like this? He had cheated on me, too. It wasn’t a problem for us. He was a man who travelled 265 days a year. When we saw each other, we took really great pleasure in each other’s company. But we are not children. We are grown-ups.”
She continued, “Anthony was 62, I was 42. We had lives, we had wives and husbands, we had children. I cannot think of Anthony as somebody who would do an extreme gesture like this for something like that.”
Argento tearfully explained that she initially felt angry after learning Bourdain had been found dead in a hotel in France. “I was angry [at him], yes, for abandoning me, my kids,” she tearfully said. “But now it’s been replaced just by this loss, this hole, that cannot be filled by anything.”
Bourdain and Argento met during the filming of his TV show Parts Unknown in 2016 . “What I do feel terrible about is that he had so much pain inside of him and I didn’t see it. I did not see it and for that I will feel guilt.”
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