Asia Argentoseemingly addressed the unauthorizedAnthony Bourdain biography— that included the final texts sent between the couple — in an Instagram Story on Thursday.
“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.”
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The next day, Bourdain was found dead in his hotel room, where he was on location filming an episode of his seriesParts Unknownwith close friend and French chef, Eric Ripert.
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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.
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Anthony Bourdain and Asia Argento.Matthew Eisman/Getty
Argento did not respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment, but told theNew York Times, “I wrote clearly to [Leerhsen] that he could not publish anything I said to him.”
“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.”
source: people.com
