#GLADYS BOURDAIN UPDATE#

TMZ reported that Argento, who has been a central fixture in the #MeToo movement, was probably headed to his funeral, but that doesn’t seem likely because it’s not yet planned. After she issued a statement on Friday, calling him “my love, my rock, my protector,” she was photographed leaving her home over the weekend with one of her two children. She described him as “feisty and very talented” and hopes he will be remembered as “a lover of people of all kinds.”īourdain had been dating Italian actress Asia Argento, whom he met when he shot an episode of Parts Unknown in Rome in 2016. She said that she last spoke to her son on Mother’s Day and that there was never any sign something was wrong. Gladys was interviewed by NBC News on Monday.

“They won’t be shipping his remains back for a couple of days because of formalities,” Gladys shared. So what is happening with his funeral? Well, it’s on hold for now as they wait for the French government to give the OK.

Bourdain’s mother, former New York Times editor Gladys Bourdain, told Page Six over the weekend, “Although they’re separated, she’ll be in charge of whatever happens,” she said. That’s who I cook for most of the time, if I’m cooking for other people.”īecause Bourdain and Busia-Bourdain hadn’t finalized their divorce, she is his next of kin. “ They’re my principal dining public these days,” he told NPR in October 2016 - one month after he announced his split from Busia-Bourdain. He talked about her constantly.”Īriane inspired his 2016 cookbook, Appetites, which was dedicated to her and her best friend. When he spoke about her, his eyes danced. A source told the magazine, “It was quite evident that Tony was a ‘lighter’ human being around his daughter. In an interview with People magazine in February, he said it was important to him that never shoot in two cities back-to-back for his CNN series, so he could spend five days a month with Ariane, who lives with Busia-Bourdain in Manhattan. When Bourdain and Busia-Bourdain, who got into mixed martial arts after having their daughter (introducing Anthony to jujitsu), split in 2016, he said it was due to his crazy work schedule, and being away from home 250 days a year. In April 2007, they welcomed their only daughter - he was 50 - and they married just over a week later. The couple got matching tattoos on one of their first dates. Bourdain’s best friend, chef Eric Ripert, who sadly discovered Bourdain dead in his hotel room in France on Friday as a result of an apparent suicide, was her boss when she was a hostess at one of his restaurants and set them up.

#GLADYS BOURDAIN UPDATE#

Update your settings here to see it.īusia-Bourdain moved from Italy to the United States and got into the restaurant business. 'I have a couple of happy minutes there where I'm thinking life is pretty good.' Following his death, Rose McGowan told Deadline she was aware of her friend's battle with depression and knew he didn't act on it: 'I know before Anthony died he reached out for help, and yet he did not take the doctor's advice.This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. I'll make it.' 'It's like that with the good stuff too,' he added. Suddenly I look at the hamburger and I find myself in a spiral of depression that can last for days.īut Bourdain indicated that he didn't think people would take his feelings seriously because he has the 'best job in the world.' 'That guy over there loading sausages onto the grill, that's work,' he said. 'I feel kind of like a freak, and I feel very isolated.' In that same episode, Bourdain talked about feeling depressed: 'I will find myself in an airport, for instance, and I'll order an airport hamburger. 'I feel like Quasimodo the hunchback of Notre Dame - if he stayed in nice hotel suites with high-thread-count sheets, that would be me,' he said, according to Eater. 'He and Asia looked really in love,' Walsh said. But the Hong Kong episode with Argento was different. On shoots, he 'sometimes seemed distracted or grumpy,' Walsh said. She made it incredible.' Fixer Matt Walsh, who'd worked with Bourdain since 2005, told Vanity Fair the host had changed over the years. But, my god, I'd love nothing more than to repeat the experience.

'I'd love to have her a continuing director,' Bourdain told Indiewire shortly before his death. 'When Anthony met Asia, it was instant chemistry,' wrote friend Rose McGowan in an open letter following Bourdain's death.īourdain and Argento started to collaborate, and she directed a season 11 episode in Hong Kong. Bourdain met Italian actress and filmmaker Asia Argento while filming the Rome episode of Parts Unknown, and they hit it off. While the divorce was never finalized, the two amicably moved on, and Bourdain quickly met someone else who captured his heart.

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