The last year of Anthony Bourdain’s life seemed steady and on track to outsiders as well friends. His former assistant Laurie Woolever had been helping him to write a memoir about his many travel experiences. “Before Tony died, we began co-authoring a second book, based on his nearly two decades of world travel,”She shared her story CNN. “It’s been a wrenching, lurching struggle to get back to that manuscript as I grieve the enormous loss of his kind, profane, surprising, and brilliant existence.”
Unpopular new book “Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain,”The chef claims that it sheds more light on his mental state prior to his death. “I hate being famous. I hate my job,”Bourdain sent Ottavia Busia Boourdain a text message (via The Guardian). “I am lonely and living in constant uncertainty.”Charles Leerhsen claims that Bourdain was exhausted from the constant travel that was part of filming his hit show.
“It’s an age-old story of being careful what you wish for, of dealing with success and love in oceanic proportions,” Leerhsen writes. Leerhsen also claims that Bourdain was clean of drugs but continued to drink. “hated”About himself. Bourdain, however, was not one for restraint or moderation. “Recovery, you might say, was one of the few things he couldn’t go all the way with. If he did something, he did it all out,” Leerhsen notes.
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