No drugs, no alcohol in U.S. celebrity chef Bourdain's body when he died - prosecutor

By Reuters Staff

 

Anthony Bourdain arrives at the 65th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, September 15. REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn

 

PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, who killed himself in a French hotel room earlier this month, had no narcotics or alcohol in his body when he died, a local prosecutor said on Friday.

 

Bourdain, host of CNN's food-and-travel-focused "Parts Unknown" television series, was 61. Brash and opinionated, he had spoken openly about his use of drugs and addiction to heroin earlier in his life.

 

"No trace of narcotics, no trace of any toxic products, no trace of medicines, no trace of alcohol," prosecutor Christian de Rocquigny told Reuters.

 

Bourdain, whose career catapulted him from washing dishes at New York restaurants to dining in Vietnam with President Barack Obama, hanged himself in a hotel room near Strasbourg, France, where he had been working on an upcoming episode of his TV series, according to CNN.

 

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-06-23

 

Ask Hillary does she know anything ? He wasn't one of her favourites

Depression is a terrible thing and it is devastating when held inside and nobody knows about it and nobody can help.

For the afflicted. It is not easy to talk about. For the non afflicted..  Not easy to understand. 

bad combination. help each other. issues unseen are still very big issues. 

To commit suicide whilst totally straight shows just how disturbed he was, poor bloke.