Anthony Bourdain was clean and sober when he died.
Robert Spencer 
[quote]Anthony Bourdain did not have narcotics in his body when he died this month, a French judicial official said. Mr. Bourdain, a New York chef, author and television correspondent whose death shook fans across the world, was found dead on June 8 in a hotel bathroom in Kaysersberg, a small village in the Alsace region of France. Police at the time ruled his death a suicide by hanging. From an investigative standpoint, the only question left was whether he had any substances in his body. There were none, save for the trace of a nonnarcotic medicine in a therapeutic dose, Christian de Rocquigny, the local prosecutor in charge of the investigation, said in a text message to The New York Times.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 143 | September 19, 2018 5:19 AM |
Sometimes, getting off drugs and alcohol can do you in because you’re not self-medicating anymore and can’t handle reality, clean.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 22, 2018 5:52 PM |
He was an aging narcissist who died of a broken heart. He couldn't cope with his girlfriend running around with a younger man.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 22, 2018 5:55 PM |
I finally watched this guy’s travel show this weekend. He was awful- so angry and depressive and mean. Always with the cursing and the negative attitude. He seemed like the suicidal type.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 22, 2018 5:58 PM |
I think this reflects what is often overlooked in fictionalised accounts of suicide, and certainly reflects my own experience: when people attempt to end their own lives (and not as a 'cry for help'), they approach that finality not from the bottom of a pit of confusion and despair. To them, it feels logical and purposeful and reasonable.
On the day when he most recently attempted to kill himself, my husband was in a far more functional mood after having been a bit manic for several weeks. He, most upsettingly and chillingly, described it as just being another thing he felt he had to do that day; feed the cat, do some emailing, empty the dishwasher, kill himself.
There would have been no drama.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 22, 2018 5:59 PM |
Never understood his appeal. I thought he was a self-obsessed cynic who just liked to lecture people.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 22, 2018 6:06 PM |
He seemed to appeal to that subset of urban hipsters that treat women like shit and can't handle aging out of their "coolness".
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 22, 2018 6:22 PM |
How come they got the results so quickly, while in the US it takes forever to get a tox screen back?
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | June 22, 2018 6:25 PM |
So does this mean he also had no alcohol in his system?
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | June 22, 2018 6:26 PM |
That’s my big question for him. He said that if he ever was at the end of his life, he would do heroin again. I would think if he was feeling that bad, just doing heroin would have given him momentary respite form the pain. Or at least it would have been a painless - and even possibly pleasant - way to take his life.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 22, 2018 6:29 PM |
Asia Argento gives the impression that they were still together when Anthony committed suicide.
Her post: "two weeks without you".
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 15 | June 22, 2018 6:46 PM |
Does France have some amazing new test for narcotics? Every other country takes exactly 8 weeks for these tests. Was this just the opinion of the French judicial official?
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | June 22, 2018 6:53 PM |
Amy Winehouse - 8 weeks
Prince - 8 weeks
Heath Ledger - 8 weeks.
Is no one questioning this announcement?
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | June 22, 2018 6:56 PM |
Thank you R16. My question, too. And wasn't he cremated right away?
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | June 22, 2018 6:56 PM |
He wasn't "sober" he drank like a fish which isn't really a great way to stay off of drugs or really be sober. He seemed ragey and miserable. Booze is a depressant, but people don't want to hear anything like that.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | June 22, 2018 6:57 PM |
Things take a long time because of backlog. These labs are understaffed and have a ton of cases to do and are frequently in court testifying. Running a toxicology profile doesn't actually take that long. There are private labs here America that can get your a toxicology report in 7 days.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | June 22, 2018 6:57 PM |
What was his blood alcohol level though?
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | June 22, 2018 7:00 PM |
[quote] Is no one questioning this announcement?
I'm not. The three you listed did not die in France. Different countries have different levels of red tape to get through.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | June 22, 2018 7:12 PM |
Asia could be pulling a Lea Michele and milking his death for publicity. Like Lea did when Corey Monteith died.
The blinds are saying that someone was after him... someone who was about to get exposed via the #metoo movement...but why kill him? You coulda just paid him off. He himself even said once that he'd do anything for a roasted whole pig... everyone has a price...
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | June 22, 2018 7:21 PM |
[quote]The blinds are saying
People still take Enty seriously...
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | June 22, 2018 7:27 PM |
He might have been clean but he was still drinking so not sober.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | June 22, 2018 7:29 PM |
Don't hospitals run a toxicology test on some patients in the ER and get the results back within and hour or two?
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | June 22, 2018 7:30 PM |
He should have committed suicide doing a goose foix gras impersonation.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | June 22, 2018 7:32 PM |
I would have thought an ex druggie/current alcoholic would be high just to take the fear and some of the pain away of hanging. It's hard to imagine that he didn't sedated himself in some way first.
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | June 22, 2018 7:49 PM |
I find this interesting. I wonder who owns the account.
[quote]justicefortony -For those who’ve been asking, there won’t be a funeral, his brother is organizing a small memorial for friends and family. Asia in not invited. She was no friend to Tony and certainly no family. There have been talks to have a larger event down the line to celebrate his life. It will happen when the time is right.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 29 | June 22, 2018 8:01 PM |
They then went on to say:
[quote]Not surprised she blocked me. Having the truth out there was becoming too uncomfortable. She was a monster to him. She took an already very damaged and very sensitive man and destroyed him. His friends and co-workers tried their best to make him see what was going on, but he would just push everyone away. No one could say anything negative about Asia or Tony would try to remove them from his life. He had one of his long time cinematographer fired because he had a disagreement with Asia during the HK shoot. Tony would threaten to leave the show if they didn’t let her pretend to work. She was useless, others had to pick up her slack, she was drunk first thing in the morning, she didn’t direct shit. Tony changed since he met her. Changed for the worse. He would try so hard to convince everyone this woman was great, that she was good for him, but in reality he was just trying to convince himself. In the end those pictures were too much, he must have finally realized what she was doing and his all world came crushing down.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 30 | June 22, 2018 8:03 PM |
In some ways it makes it harder to handle his death.
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | June 22, 2018 8:08 PM |
Obviously, it was Trump. Trump makes many of us want to die but we carry on, probably because we are afraid of the pain at death.
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | June 22, 2018 8:11 PM |
Asia had some vicious and vitriolic venom-filled teardowns of Anthony during the last few days they were together before the weekend she paraded for paparazzi in Italy where they had fallen in love. Anthony's friend, Eric Ripert, must have more than an inkling what transpired in those days from euphoria to despair.
There was a rash of weird tweets from the unholy sisters, championed by anger-fueled Anthony, while blaming everyone but themselves for Harvey Weinstein's awful behavior. Tony wanted to be a savior, of women, in particular his woman, raped by Harvey, then engaged in an affair for 4 years.
Asia acted in her father's sex horror movies as a teen, being nude and raped. Not a healthy or kind person.
We all know why it happened, just like with Kate Spade's suicide. (Andy left her for a man.)
In some ways it makes it easier to handle their deaths, the knowing despair when love is crushed.
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | June 22, 2018 8:17 PM |
I never thought of Anthony as "angry, depressing and mean." I thought he was a hell of a guy, r6. I am very sure you are a ridiculous asshole and you could never understand a man like Bourdain, you have no heart.
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | June 22, 2018 8:18 PM |
I will say he may have used heroin in recent days but he ran out? His craving may have been huge, so he simply killed himself.
I think Burrough's was in his 80s and still used heroine if someone would buy it for him.
| by Anonymous | reply 36 | June 22, 2018 8:22 PM |
So many hateful cunts on this thread.
| by Anonymous | reply 38 | June 22, 2018 8:27 PM |
Do people actually believe that a middle aged man with two long term marriages behind him and, probably, a lot of other relationships in between suddenly couldn't cope with another breakup, even if it came at a rough time in his life (was it a rough time in his life?)?
You give Argento a lot of credit if you think losing her would make a grown man kill himself.
| by Anonymous | reply 39 | June 22, 2018 8:27 PM |
[quote] justicefortony @brklynfoodie that is true. But he’s no longer alive and she just won’t go away. She’s been harassing everyone at CNN and Zero Point Zero. She wants to profit from his death too. Already shopping for someone to publish her book. If the Rose’s letter is any indication, the book will be tasteless and full of lies. Unfortunately nothing we’ll do can bring Tony back, but we can still make sure she won’t try to ruin his memory. Specially for his little girl.
[quote] justicefortony @lili_haze922 she wants everyone to hear “her side of the story”. As if she was preemptively defending herself against something she knows will come out.
[quote] justicefortony @mushroomgeek I’m not sure how long this account will stay active either. I’m sure she’s been reporting it. Just trying to reach as many people as possible before I’ll get banned.
[quote] justicefortony They started fighting on Tuesday, Tony had to leave the set multiple times to talk to her on the phone. Things escalated on Wednesday when by all accounts she told him she no longer wanted to be with him. Everyone was keeping an eye on him all day and night because he was incredibly distraught. More screaming phone calls through the day. By Thursday he seemed to be better and kind of wanted everyone to back off. As I said before, this is not the first time they broke up so although everyone was very vigilant during the day, no one checked on him at night because he was acting fine before heading to his room. No one could imagine what he was going to do. Everyone was just really hoping they would not get back together this time.
[quote] justicefortony @mushroomgeek she already blocked me so I can’t block her. I’m sure she’s having her “lovely” girlfriends do more dirty work for her.
| by Anonymous | reply 40 | June 22, 2018 8:31 PM |
I agree, R39, though what do I know. My go to guess is always dementia-related.
Burroughs was an opiate addict for decades. Morphine, I think. He could afford it and thus bypass most if not all the problems that go with addiction.
| by Anonymous | reply 41 | June 22, 2018 8:32 PM |
I know none of us were there.....but killing oneself for a breakup seems to be quite a stretch.
| by Anonymous | reply 42 | June 22, 2018 8:37 PM |
[quote]Anthony Bourdain did not have narcotics in his body when he died this month, a French judicial official said.
You forgot the part where it says
a French judicial official said, just before he drove away in his new Mercedes to take a five year world cruise, before he settles in his new Manhattan apartment.
| by Anonymous | reply 43 | June 22, 2018 8:43 PM |
Clean and sober...and suffering depression beyond description.
| by Anonymous | reply 44 | June 22, 2018 8:46 PM |
R42 Looking back, just about everyone that I know who attempted suicide or committed suicide did it over a broken or toxic relationship. It happens more often than many would like to believe.
Psychologically healthy people process life's disappointments differently than people who suffer from mental illness.
| by Anonymous | reply 45 | June 22, 2018 8:58 PM |
Maybe depression is a byproduct of having made really really bad decisions in order to get ahead in life, then finding out it didn't go so well, your number is up, and your wealth will disappear.
It is worse to have gained enormous fame and wealth and then lose it all, over something publicly humiliating, than to never have had wealth and fame it to begin with.
| by Anonymous | reply 46 | June 22, 2018 9:04 PM |
No narcotics but drunk as hell. Please.
| by Anonymous | reply 48 | June 22, 2018 9:10 PM |
[quote] As clean as my ass
But unlike your ass, not covered in scabs
| by Anonymous | reply 49 | June 22, 2018 9:32 PM |
A basic tox screen can be done quickly, it can tell whether there are opiates or alcohol in the system. A detailed tox screen, like the ones that were released after the deaths of Carrie Fisher and Michael Jackson, can take a long time.
So no opiates in the system, good. At least he wasn't living with opiate addiction. But the doctor didn't say anything about alcohol, but I suppose the French don't consider that a "substance", and Bourdain drank all the time on his show so there would have been no surprises there.
| by Anonymous | reply 50 | June 22, 2018 10:39 PM |
I doubt very much he was “sober.”
| by Anonymous | reply 51 | June 23, 2018 12:57 AM |
Asia will become the new Yoko Ono. Everyone will hate her, and she will be blamed for his death.
I don't know if she's the reason he killed himself, but his obsession with her seemed extremely unhealthy.
| by Anonymous | reply 52 | June 23, 2018 1:51 AM |
I first saw Asia as an anorexic troubled teen in TRAUMA along with Piper Laurie who had a ridiculous Romanian accent in the film. Asia was luminous but has ruined herself with those tattoos
| by Anonymous | reply 53 | June 23, 2018 1:52 AM |
On the crazy Instagram of Chan Marshall (of Cat Power), she made a post in support of Asia and possibly the #MeToo movement in general back when the story first hit last year, and said something like, "Some of us were not safe from our own fathers." I might be making it more dramatic than it was, but the words used along with the context clearly implied father-daughter incest. I thought Chan might've been referring to herself. After seeing R34, I'm now wondering if there were any #MeToos about Dario Argento.
| by Anonymous | reply 54 | June 25, 2018 1:02 AM |
Fuck that! If I'm going out I'm going out WASTED.
| by Anonymous | reply 55 | June 25, 2018 1:14 AM |
r53 - Asia's tattoos are particularly ugly. Absolutely nothing attractive or interesting about them ... I think that a person's choice of tats are very revealing about their mindset. Ugly tats = ugly thinking ...
| by Anonymous | reply 56 | June 25, 2018 1:39 AM |
And I think he was probably fall-down drunk .... Drunk tests are almost instant - I wonder why it wasn't stated one way or the other.
| by Anonymous | reply 57 | June 25, 2018 1:41 AM |
[quote] Asia will become the new Yoko Ono. Everyone will hate her, and she will be blamed for his death.
That would require Bourdain to be the equivalent of John Lennon. Not even Bourdain was enough of an egomaniac to make such a comparison.
| by Anonymous | reply 58 | June 25, 2018 2:28 AM |
Asia is a sad loser and will disappear from conversation within a few months. Bourdain was kind of a loser too - and although I liked him I never thought he was a brilliant thinker or particularly insightful. Just a television personality - they come and go. He looked silly in his tight jeans and kiddie drag .... But suicide by hanging oneself from the back of a bathroom door is so low-class, so disgusting. If Bourdain is remembered at all it will be for the way he killed himself.
| by Anonymous | reply 59 | June 25, 2018 3:28 AM |
Fan boys like R35 make me laugh. Boutdain was a nasty drunk and the heroin addict equivalent of a "dry drunk," filled with resentment, anger, and negativity.
| by Anonymous | reply 60 | June 25, 2018 3:30 AM |
Not to be morbid, but the fact that he didn’t have drugs in his system makes the suicide theory strange because don’t you need drugs to relax with this type of death (Kate Spade has taken some, some, I believe) in order to make it effective? Maybe it was just an auto erotic thing gone wrong.
| by Anonymous | reply 61 | June 25, 2018 3:45 AM |
R60 ... but why would the French have lied about the circumstances of his suicide? He wasn't a French citizen or beloved by the average French person. My guess is if it was auto erotic it would have been made public by now. The French seem very meticulous in describing how he was found.
| by Anonymous | reply 62 | June 25, 2018 3:49 AM |
I think you are all missing the point. Do you remember Asia's recent harshly damning and public take down of Weinstein in Cannes? Weinsteiin had been derailed, humiliated and brought down before by the abuse charges. But Argento's speech (google it) in front of the industry and international press ruined him. Redemption, even after some lenient prison term paying his debt to society, now impossible. Done. Over. Bourdain's death was not a suicide, it was only made to look that way. Shocked! It was murder as retribution aimed at Argento. And not the first. Look back over many others with connection to Hollywood pedophilia. The inconvenient and expendable who threaten to expose criminality, die. And never with a note. This club of billionaire moguls does not play. and then have the connected means.
| by Anonymous | reply 63 | June 25, 2018 3:53 AM |
OP not sober, never sober for a day in his life
| by Anonymous | reply 64 | June 25, 2018 3:54 AM |
R62 then he killed himself with no calming drugs? And he had been a drug user for most of his life? That’s really weird. If I were going to kill myself, I’d need some Ativan at least to get through it.
| by Anonymous | reply 65 | June 25, 2018 3:57 AM |
Booze is plenty calming if you drink enough !! Impairs judgement too ...
| by Anonymous | reply 66 | June 25, 2018 4:04 AM |
[R63] wow - makes perfect sense - Bourdain was killed in a bizarre fashion because of a speech made by his girlfriend's father.
| by Anonymous | reply 67 | June 25, 2018 4:18 AM |
R63, why not just get rid of Argento? Killing Bourdain, especially if they had broken up, doesn't seem to make much sense.
| by Anonymous | reply 68 | June 25, 2018 4:36 AM |
Seems like this would have made CNN angry. They lost a lot of money ..
| by Anonymous | reply 69 | June 25, 2018 4:39 AM |
Am I the only one who is not taking this as a national tragedy? JFC - he was a spoiled rich kid who learned how to cook, wrote a book with his mom's help, and was an asshole on TV and to many of his colleagues.
It was a travel show with some local food. Let's please move on to real news.
| by Anonymous | reply 70 | June 25, 2018 4:43 AM |
Let me guess, was it coven-leader Hillary, in subterranean kill-room #33, with the pizza peel? And the hanging was just staging?
| by Anonymous | reply 72 | June 25, 2018 4:44 AM |
r70 lots and lots of lucky breaks and he still had an ugly girlfriend and wound up on the back of a bathroom door. Yawn ...
| by Anonymous | reply 73 | June 25, 2018 4:47 AM |
[quote]They started fighting on Tuesday, Tony had to leave the set multiple times to talk to her on the phone. Things escalated on Wednesday when by all accounts she told him she no longer wanted to be with him.
Straight drama! Exhausting!
Why do straight men put up with women's craziness? Getting laid while famous is a breeze!
| by Anonymous | reply 74 | June 25, 2018 5:07 AM |
I bet Eric Ripert knows the whole story, poor guy.
| by Anonymous | reply 75 | June 25, 2018 5:13 AM |
[quote]There was a rash of weird tweets from the unholy sisters, championed by anger-fueled Anthony, while blaming everyone but themselves for Harvey Weinstein's awful behavior.
R34, they aren’t to blame for Weinstein’s awful behavior. They might be obnoxious or unpleasant, but Weinstein is Weinstein whether you’re Annabella Sciorra or Asia Argento.
It also doesn’t seem fair to use the fact that she appeared in nude rape scenes in her father’s movies when she was a teenager as evidence for her being fucked up without acknowledging that a dynamic like that goes a long way towards explaining how she ended up in a relationship with a disgusting old man who raped her.
(I’m not saying Bourdain didn’t make a big mistake.)
| by Anonymous | reply 76 | June 25, 2018 5:15 AM |
"Bourdain's death was not a suicide, it was only made to look that way. Shocked! It was murder as retribution aimed at Argento."
Ridiculous, when they could have killed Argento herself and made it look like a suicide. Now THAT would send a message to all the ladies of #METOO, a loud and clear notification that dissent means death!
Sending them a message that talking means death for the boyfriend you're not getting along with at the moment isn't a real incentive to keep quiet. In fact, some people would see it as a real convenience.
| by Anonymous | reply 77 | June 25, 2018 6:17 AM |
I want to know who is behind the justice for Tony account ,assuming it is legit. It almost sounds like someone who was working on the set.
| by Anonymous | reply 78 | June 25, 2018 6:26 AM |
R78 Some friend racked with guilt for enabling him?
| by Anonymous | reply 79 | June 25, 2018 6:27 AM |
The same source stated one of Tony's last acts was to unfriend AA and Rose M.
The French toxicologist never said he died sober. In fact he stated there was trace alcohol in his system. I would have thought he would have been hammered thus provoking the impetuous act.
I liked Bourdain. Nobody's going to be able to create a show like his. Tonight I watched his final episode - Bhutan - and again, it was infornative, full of humor and convinced me I should visit. I'm going to miss this show.
| by Anonymous | reply 80 | June 25, 2018 8:19 AM |
[quote]Asia acted in her father's sex horror movies as a teen, being nude and raped. Not a healthy or kind person.
You breathless gossip frauen are insane. Someone is manipulated as a teen into inappropriate sexual situations by their father and SHE'S the unkind person.
The middle-aged ladies with their sockpuppet accounts trying to blame the Evil Italian Bitch Whore are just astonishing. Get a life.
| by Anonymous | reply 81 | June 25, 2018 8:24 AM |
[quote]just about everyone that I know who attempted suicide or committed suicide did it over a broken or toxic relationship
...how many people do you know who have committed suicide? Enough to make it statistically noteworthy?
| by Anonymous | reply 82 | June 25, 2018 8:26 AM |
While he was with Ottavia, he was sober while filming (i.e. drank only while filming) [See his multiple posts from that time.] Since then, only God or his crew knew... I suspect he has eaten enough, drank enough, to be too tired to taste what's left. Asia was his last frontier, and he surrendered. I wish he hadn't surrendered.
| by Anonymous | reply 83 | June 25, 2018 9:16 AM |
R79 hmm.. perhaps. But the thing is, whoever is writing the blog seems fixated on Asia as the source of Anthony's problems. The account seems to imply that she caused his suicide. Granted, this could all be a hoax.
| by Anonymous | reply 84 | June 25, 2018 9:22 AM |
R83 Drinking at all is not sober, why do people not get that simple fact?
| by Anonymous | reply 85 | June 25, 2018 9:26 AM |
He chose the wrong woman to end things with. That is okay, but never serene. They will forever be linked together. It is his fate to be mentioned with her. Tant pis.
| by Anonymous | reply 86 | June 25, 2018 9:29 AM |
What a mess. This is still not her fault.
| by Anonymous | reply 87 | June 25, 2018 9:31 AM |
Sunday, June 24, 2018 Blind Item #12
This foreign born alliterate celebrity has been taking no chances. She sleeps in a different place each night, and makes sure she is always with at least one person, if not two or three. She might get that new guy in her life killed if she doesn't get this thing settled once and for all. They are still out there, until they are called off.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 88 | June 25, 2018 9:35 AM |
Yawn. Tony's suicide was the best thing to happen to Asia's career. I hope she's sleeping alone, for the rest of her life.
| by Anonymous | reply 89 | June 25, 2018 9:39 AM |
Why do some people on here still link to ENTY’s blind items as though they are in any way credible?
It’s all fanfiction.
| by Anonymous | reply 90 | June 25, 2018 10:03 AM |
She was an asshole to him there near the end with the fuck you tweet - you know who you are - and the public photos by a paparazzo she brought along specifically to dig at Bourdain. Congratulations bitch, you won.
| by Anonymous | reply 91 | June 25, 2018 11:28 AM |
R70 you are not the only one.
| by Anonymous | reply 92 | June 25, 2018 11:36 AM |
R7 - that's interesting. While I was taking a SSRI, I very much felt that nonchalant yet purposeful about life - and death. I got off the drug quickly because I felt I was more likely to commit suicide while taking it.
| by Anonymous | reply 93 | June 25, 2018 11:42 AM |
R82 I was just pointing out that some people do in fact take their lives over failed relationships.
If you are psychologically healthy it might seem extreme. However, it does happen.
| by Anonymous | reply 94 | June 25, 2018 11:52 AM |
Today (6/25) is his birthday.
| by Anonymous | reply 95 | June 25, 2018 11:56 AM |
R90 I don't understand it either. Enty is a disturbed weirdo with some really sick fixations. But there are so many gullible people who seem to believe he has some sort of inside scoop. It would suck to have your career damaged because of a false accusation written by this pathological liar .
| by Anonymous | reply 96 | June 25, 2018 12:02 PM |
Yoko Ono is blamed for Lennon's death, [52]? Really? And all this time I thought she was blamed for the breakup of the Beatles and had nothing to do with a psycho "fan's" actions. Well, what you learn on this site! Anyway, Asia certainly seemed like she had a ton of baggage Bourdain didn't need. Maybe that was her attraction? (messed up people gravitating to other messed up people).
And anyone who reads Enty and believes him needs a mental health intervention.
| by Anonymous | reply 97 | June 25, 2018 12:06 PM |
R63, just fucking stop. You’re so disgusting. You’re fucking nuts, too.
Honestly, if these ppl exist, I hope they come after your ass. You disseminate lies, all day, everyday.
A mentally unwell man took his own life, and you still find a way to blame this on fucking pedophiles.
Honestly, what is wrong with you??? Why can’t you live without these fantasies and conspiracies that you constantly subscribe to???
You need help, you really do. And then you will blame me and call me a pedo, or a pedo enabler, because I’m calling you out. But I’m neither of those things.
| by Anonymous | reply 99 | June 25, 2018 5:02 PM |
R98 You are a hypocrite of the highest order with your faux virtue.
| by Anonymous | reply 100 | June 25, 2018 5:30 PM |
He looks like Jeffrey Epstein.
| by Anonymous | reply 101 | June 25, 2018 5:31 PM |
R99 = the -you need help- troll
| by Anonymous | reply 102 | June 25, 2018 5:36 PM |
R29, the justicefortony account on IG is gone. Her friends were trying to get it taken down.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 103 | June 25, 2018 6:23 PM |
He died for a crazy Italian chick. He looked like her grandpa anyway and was hoping to "restart" his life with her and then realized she was a ho and couldn't take it. Now she'll always be remembered for killing him and crying Me too after fucking fat ol Harvey for 2 years. He was an angry guy. This is how they take revenge.
| by Anonymous | reply 104 | June 25, 2018 6:30 PM |
She publicly humiliated him on social media. Fuck her. Let her live out her life with this black cloud. You love the darkness Aria, you got it.
| by Anonymous | reply 105 | June 25, 2018 6:35 PM |
r105 is one of Harvey's hitmen trying to divert attention
| by Anonymous | reply 106 | June 25, 2018 6:37 PM |
I read Kitchen Confidential years ago bored on vacation and I loathed his 'voice', I had to stop ready. Aggressive, posturing, foul-mouthed. Ugh. He should have hung out here with us, might have made him feel less lonesome.
| by Anonymous | reply 107 | June 25, 2018 6:41 PM |
[quote]Why can’t you live without these fantasies and conspiracies that you constantly subscribe to???
The fantasy at the heart of the 'pizza/paedophilia' conspiracy theorist's unconscious mind is that their own abuser/s will be vanquished, humiliated and exposed. I'm not sure if many of them even understand that.
| by Anonymous | reply 108 | June 25, 2018 6:44 PM |
Suuuure, r108. And I suppose you're going to tell me that this photo is just a coincidence? Why in the world would Anthony Bourdain be photographed with pizza? Who takes pictures with pizza??
Also, note his Satanic hand gesture. One finger (devil horn) is extended all the way while the pinky is much shorter. Oh, I don't know...maybe like a CHILD-SIZED devil horn??
Three slices of pizza are missing from the box and as we all know, three is one of the numbers in thirty-three. Three plus three is thirty-three. Do the math!
Keep being willfully obtuse, but deep down you know.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 109 | June 25, 2018 7:04 PM |
I can not believe you dumb shits will not believe he was not on dope again.
| by Anonymous | reply 112 | June 25, 2018 7:52 PM |
And how exactly do you KNOW he was on dope again, R112?
All we know for sure is that the coroner said there were no opiates in his system when he died. That tells us something, but not everything a nosy bitch wants to know.
| by Anonymous | reply 113 | June 25, 2018 8:07 PM |
So is Tony’s surfing family really blaming Argento for his suicide? That’s just wrong, if they are.
I know that they’re in pain, and this is a tragedy that is really difficult to make sense of for the people who loved him, and are left behind, but Anthony was in his 60s. This wasn’t a 13 year old boy who was being mercilessly bullied at school or on social media. I take exception with those cases, because children are just not old enough to understand the damage that they do by bullying, nor do the ones who are bullied understand exactly what it is that they are doing, when they take their own lives. But again, this was a grown man. He was not OK. He needed an intervention for his mental health, and unfortunately, that didn’t take place, and he took his own life.
It is wrong to blame this woman. She had every right to disengage from him, for whatever reason she saw fit.
I lost a very dear friend in 2003. I loved her very much, and there was nothing I, nor anyone could do, to save her life. I mourned her deeply for many years, and I still do not have answers. I had to let her go eventually, to be OK.
I truly wish the Bourdain family peace, and I hope that after all is said and done, that they can come to terms that as unfortunate as it is, the only person responsible for Anthony’s death, was Anthony.
| by Anonymous | reply 115 | June 25, 2018 9:19 PM |
Correction:
So is Tony’s surviving family really blaming Argento for his suicide? That’s just wrong, if they are.
| by Anonymous | reply 116 | June 25, 2018 9:20 PM |
I kind of like the idea of Harvey’s goons coming for Asia. Just because she seems like an exhausting cunt. Take Rose, too!
| by Anonymous | reply 117 | June 25, 2018 9:33 PM |
R117 loves violence against women! It really gets his juices flowing.
| by Anonymous | reply 119 | June 25, 2018 9:35 PM |
She's part of the misery of Bourdains' life. Drugs, instability, depression and all that. Certainly not the only one to blame but definitely part of the mix of things that drove him to kill himself. Her behavior on social media hanging on to some guy was poorly timed. I wish Rose would shut up about their "free relationship" and also I hope I don't have to see those two around a lot. Asia putting up "I'm ok." pictures regularly make me barf. As if anybody gives a flying fuck.
Bullied kids kill themselves too and the ones humiliated sexually on social media also kill themselves. We know this is a problem and we blame the social media culprits who mentally tortured those kids. But those kids might have suffered from depression anyways and all it takes is a little push.
| by Anonymous | reply 120 | June 25, 2018 9:45 PM |
Maybe he was just sick to fucking death of all the bullshit that life brings with it. I know this does not compute for most us us when it comes to a guy like Bourdain, because he has money and connections and fame, but would those things really make the endless schlepp that is life all that much easier.
It might just be that he was ready to check out.
| by Anonymous | reply 121 | June 25, 2018 9:52 PM |
R119, you finger-wagging, Pollyanna Prisspot, Asia Argento and Rose McG had sex with that thing after it raped them. Willingly. So apparently, they are the ones against whom there is evidence to suggest that 'violence against women gets their juices going'.
| by Anonymous | reply 122 | June 25, 2018 10:01 PM |
I read a one-liner that Bourdain absolutely refused to eat anything from their next shoot with Baori(?) people when he got the menu. Their food is horrible. I forget but they're some tribe somewhere. Doari??
| by Anonymous | reply 123 | June 25, 2018 10:39 PM |
Beautifully put, R115. The only one responsible for Bourdain's death was Bourdain.
But there are people on this forum who always want to find a woman to blame for whatever a man does wrong, and of course they've found a target in Argento. But she's not to blame (see R115 for yet another explanation of why), Bourdain was a fucked-up person long before he met her. I've been watching him on TV for years and years, because he was so much fun to watch... but only in small doses. If you ever binge-watched any of his shows, even the ones dating back to "A Cook's Tour", his bitterness and underlying anger became pretty damn disturbing. That was all in place years before he met ARgento, and so was the gradual decline in his sense of humor, that had been lacking in recent years and that wasn't because of her.
| by Anonymous | reply 124 | June 25, 2018 11:09 PM |
R123, Maori? They are a the indigenous people of New Zealand, similar to Native Americans in the USA. A lot of them are poor, their circumstances are similar to Native Americans in the USA. In the early twentieth century, the British tried to Anglicize them with pretty poor results. Lots of drugs, wife-beating and unemployment in their community. But they are very proud of their heritage and language and try to preserve their traditions.
| by Anonymous | reply 125 | June 25, 2018 11:37 PM |
R125 Dude. You have no fucking idea what you are talking about. Search Treaty of Waitangi
| by Anonymous | reply 126 | June 26, 2018 5:27 AM |
Sorry, it was a tribe called Korowai. I fell asleep looking at their food, for good reason. I read that Bourdain refused to touch ANY of their menu. I think his work was getting to him in a big way but he could not stop, or was not able to stop.
I think they eat people, these Korowai. Please ignore my senior moments and forget that I said anything resembling Maori.
| by Anonymous | reply 127 | June 26, 2018 5:38 AM |
Argento has proved herself to be a POS and you have to wonder about her desire to associate so closely with that loon RM. Trust in what Justice for Tony has shared thus far
| by Anonymous | reply 128 | June 26, 2018 6:08 AM |
When did Asia become the patron saint of the #MeToo movement? And are people really still blaming her Anthony Bourdain's suicide that an open letter pleading for people to be kind to her is needed?
Among those who signed of the letter are Weinstein victims Paz de la Huerta, Mira Sirvino, Kevin Spacey victim Anthony Rapp, Franco Zeffirelli victim Jonathan Schaech and of course Rose McG.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 129 | July 13, 2018 4:53 PM |
r59, so what is the high class way of killing yourself?
| by Anonymous | reply 130 | July 13, 2018 10:24 PM |
I'm missing Bourdain. I hadn't realized how much I counted on his show to introduce us to unique experience s in mostly interesting locales.
| by Anonymous | reply 131 | July 14, 2018 1:26 PM |
I miss this motherfucker so much! Whenever my boyfriend and I would have an argument we would watch an episode of Parts Unknown and somehow it got us laughing and back in the groove. Thank you, Anthony. I know, bitches. MARY!
| by Anonymous | reply 133 | September 18, 2018 3:15 AM |
Just watched an episode of him with Ripert the year before he died. Something about him makes him incredibly attractive to me as a person. I know it’s TV - but there is something so real about him that feel a genuine connection with him. The fact that he killed himself is so confusing and sad.
| by Anonymous | reply 135 | September 18, 2018 6:35 PM |
He really was an excellent TV travel host, there's nobody left who's half as fun to watch, or as interesting.
He was the travel companion I don't have in real life, the intelligent and funny guy who goes everywhere and knows the best chefs and restaurants wherever he goes. I miss him, and I wish someone else would put on a decent travel show, featuring someone I'd like to travel with.
| by Anonymous | reply 136 | September 18, 2018 11:23 PM |
I wonder who leaked the story about Asia and the kid to the "Times". Do we know?
| by Anonymous | reply 137 | September 19, 2018 12:19 AM |
R127 Bourdain was probably well aware that a Prion Disease was historically a cause of death in this and many other current or previously cannibalistic cultures. You’re probably more familiar with Mad Cow Disease than either Kuru (which historically afflicted the Korowai,) or Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, a not uncommon western civilisation degenerative neurological disorder, similar to kuru.
It’s a nasty way to die. Who knows if Bourdain was concerned about another food pathogen or a Prion Disease, but either way if he balked at eating any of it I’d not disagree with him.
(Yes, I know R127 was posting in June 2018 but maybe he’s still curious and might still track this thread...)
| by Anonymous | reply 138 | September 19, 2018 12:27 AM |
R136, would Gordon Ramsay work for you?
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 139 | September 19, 2018 2:45 AM |
Ugh- NO. Ramsay is the polar opposite of Bourdain. Douchebag narcissist egomaniac slapping his name on anything to make money. Zero integrity.
| by Anonymous | reply 140 | September 19, 2018 4:17 AM |
Gordon Ramsay will do ANYTHING to get on TV, won't he.
Which always makes me wonder how financially stable this "restaurant empire" of his is, if he's always desperate for that TV money.
| by Anonymous | reply 141 | September 19, 2018 4:41 AM |
I wonder how Eric is doing. Finding your friend hanging must be a real mind fuck.
| by Anonymous | reply 142 | September 19, 2018 5:18 AM |
[quote]Something about him makes him incredibly attractive to me as a person. I know it’s TV - but there is something so real about him that feel a genuine connection with him.
He had very kind eyes. I never saw his show, maybe he wasn’t kind at all, but in photos he looks like a good guy.
| by Anonymous | reply 143 | September 19, 2018 5:19 AM |
