Asia Argento Reacts to Anthony Bourdain Book with Crass Instagram Post
Category: News & Politics
Via: revillug • 2 years ago • 11 commentsBy: Anna Lazarus Caplan (Peoplemag)
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(277x64:279x66):format(webp)/asia-argento-t-shirt-092922-65bd748852534309ae6423c561b40a91.jpg)
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Asia Argento seemingly addressed the unauthorized Anthony Bourdain biography — that included the final texts sent between the couple — in an Instagram Story on Thursday.
Argento, 47, posted a picture wearing a T-shirt featuring professional bodybuilder Ronnie Coleman with the words "Stop Busting My Balls" superimposed over the image. She sent the same message to her late partner the night before he died, according to the book Down and Out in Paradise by Charles Leerhsen (out Oct. 11).
Bourdain died by suicide in June 2018 at age 61 while in Kaysersberg, France.
"Is there anything I can do?" Bourdain asked Argento in the conversation, which is included on the first page of the forthcoming biography.
"Stop busting my balls," Argento wrote back, to which Bourdain then replied: "Okay."
Asia Argento/Instagram
The next day, Bourdain was found dead in his hotel room, where he was on location filming an episode of his series Parts Unknown with close friend and French chef, Eric Ripert.
The book features intimate details — taken largely from texts and emails from Bourdain's phone and laptop — and charts Bourdain's rise to fame, from a Vassar College dropout to a food superstar.
During his final days filming his CNN series with Ripert, Bourdain fought with the Italian actress while he was on set, and had to leave the filming "multiple times to talk to her on the phone," according to the book, which PEOPLE excerpted exclusively on Wednesday. Bourdain became angry after she was spotted by paparazzi with French journalist Hugo Clement.
Anthony Bourdain and Asia Argento.Matthew Eisman/Getty
"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," reads the excerpt.
Argento did not respond to PEOPLE's request for comment, but told the New York Times, "I wrote clearly to [Leerhsen] that he could not publish anything I said to him."
Three months after Bourdain's death in 2018, the actress spoke to DailyMailTV after she faced backlash following Bourdain's death.
"People say I murdered him. They say I killed him," she said through tears in the interview. "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 traveled 265 days a year. We took great pleasure in each other's company when we saw each other. But we are not children. We are grown-ups."
If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please contact the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by dialing 988, text "STRENGTH" to the Crisis Text Line at 741741 or go to 988lifeline.org.
Tags
Who is online
507 visitors
Anthony Bourdain seems like the kind of human I would gravitate towards, but for some reason I never really did. I’ve watched so many of his shows but he’s always kind struck me as someone who fell into a position he didn’t so much deserve, but got overloaded with undeserved fame anyways. I didn’t dislike him, I just didn’t see him as the icon he is portrayed as. Taking his own life makes me feel like maybe he felt the same way.
I kind of feel the opposite about him.
A cooking/dining/travel show is the last kind of show I usually want to watch because, to be honest, I can't afford to go to too many of those places. Bourdain had a real talent for finding his way into the hearts of locals and getting them to share the essence of their culture. You would learn about their history, their struggles, and their food and drink.
He did an episode with Iggy Pop and practically said the same thing while he was sitting on Iggy Pop's beach front mansion's property in Florida. (It was a strange interaction because rage flashed across Iggy's face when he misheard Anthony and thought he was saying neither of them deserved it.)
I don't know exactly how/why he got mixed up with Asia Argento, but any male who has ever had a crush on an unobtainable woman can relate.
In the end, he was estranged from his wife and his ten year old daughter, and then publicly humiliated and dumped by Asia Argento. He spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on her, her children, and her legal troubles, publicly supporting her #metoo prominence. Then it turned out that some of her own sex life was what most of us would consider to be predatory (and would get one fired from a school system).
He felt like he was left with a ruined life.
From the outside it looks like a life that could have been repaired. From the inside it didn't.
I can't bring myself to watch episodes of his show anymore. It's just too sad.
He felt like he was left with a ruined life.
I wish someone would ruin my life with a bazillion dollars and the opportunity to travel the world all expenses paid. I’ve certainly had my share of women “ruin my life”, but everything is temporary. I just look back and laugh now, as I struggle to even remember some of their names. I dunno, sometimes I watch him eat something truly disgusting that is considered some local cuisine somewhere, and it just strikes me as attention grabbing tv no more interesting than an episode of Fear Factor. I feel sorry for anyone who thinks suicide is a reasonable way out, I’ve felt that way myself at one point when I had almost nothing left to live for, but to have everything and still follow through with killing yourself is something I can’t really empathize with. I feel like if I died today and met him in some beyond, I’d tell him he’s an idiot for what he did - and I feel like he would agree.
Perhaps it was the only way he felt he could elicit an emotional response from Asia Argento.
It seems he was wrong.
Bourdain himself was very honest about his own demons. He often fought with anxiety, depression and addiction. He freely talked about this on a shows and in his book.
The sad thing is he wanted to leave but people just can't let him go. It's morbid.
I am sorry but, those memes with Bourdain's philosophy of life are just plain galling in light of his suicide...
That's a thing?
I don't do much social media.
Yes, just Google, "Anthony Bourdain Memes". They show up randomly on my Facebook feed all the time...
I really can't bring myself to watch his show reruns because thinking of his suicide is too sad. And I am certainly glad I don't run into the memes.
There are plenty of other dead celebrities that I simply miss and don't mind seeing or hearing them.