Asia Argento sent explosive text to ‘possessive’ Anthony Bourdain before his suicide: book

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ex, Asia Argento — sent just a few hours before his tragic suicide in a French hotel room on June 8, 2018.Excerpts from “Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain” were published in Tuesday’s edition of the New York Times.The unauthorized biography written by reporter Charles Leerhsen will be released Oct.

11 and contains the texts as well as Bourdain’s online search history.Leerhsen describes the celebrity chef’s life before his suicide as “isolated,” with him “injecting steroids, drinking to the point of blackout and visiting prostitutes, and had all but vanished from his 11-year-old daughter’s life.”The book also chronicles his “last, painful days” when he saw photos of Argento, now 47, dancing with journalist Hugo Clément at a hotel in Rome, the last time they communicated.“I am okay,” Bourdain texted Argento, who he began dating in 2016, after he viewed the photographs.The book noted how the “Parts Unknown” star had searched Argento’s name online  “hundreds” of times after he saw the snaps.“I am not spiteful,” the text continued. “I am not jealous that you have been with another man.

I do not own you. You are free. As I said. As I promised. As I truly meant. But you were careless. You were reckless with my heart.

My life.”“I can’t take this,” she messaged him back. To which he replied, “Is there anything I can do?”“Stop busting my balls,” the “Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things” star responded.“OK,” he typed.Hours later, Bourdain hung himself.According to the book, which the Times noted is “drawing criticism from many of his friends and family,” Argento and the Culinary Institute of America graduate had broken up due to the latter’s “possessiveness.”Bourdain also sent messages to his ex-wife Ottavia.