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Anthony Bourdain's Former Assistant Shares His Final Texts to Her

Anthony Bourdain's former assistant, Laurie Woolever, shared the final texts the late TV personality sent to her before his death in her new memoir

Laurie Woolever is opening up about her time working with the late chef and TV personality in her upcoming memoir, Care and Feeding, which hits bookshelves on March 11. Woolever notes that a producer on Bourdain’s show Parts Unknown “had heard that things were apparently tense on set in France,” adding, “Everyone was walking the tightrope, trying to give him both the emotional support he seemed to need and the space to process his pain with a measure of private dignity.” One day after news of Argento’s alleged affair broke, Woolever says Bourdain “asked me to schedule a number of things for him — a lunch, a haircut, a doctor appointment, a private session with his jiu-jitsu trainer — for the week after his return to New York.”

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