Rose McGowan: Anthony Bourdain sought help before his suicide

Us Weekly

“I know before Anthony died he reached out for help, and yet he did not take the doctor’s advice. And that has led us here, to this tragedy, to this loss, to this world of hurt,” McGowan wrote in a letter urging people not to blame Bourdain's girlfriend Asia Argento for his death. “Do NOT do the sexist thing and burn a woman on the pyre of misplaced blame,” she added. “Anthony’s internal war was his war, but now (Argento has) been left on the battlefield to take the bullets. It is in no way fair or acceptable to blame her or anyone else, not even Anthony. We are asking you to be better, to look deeper, to read and learn about mental illness, suicide and depression before you make it worse for survivors by judging that which we do not understand, that which can never fully be understood.” ALSO: Bourdain's mother recalls last speaking to him on Mother's Day.