--- title: Anthony Bourdain's Mother Never Thought He'd Commit Suicide description: Anthony Bourdain's mother Gladys Bourdain expressed shock and sadness over her son's death in an interview with the New York Times. canonical: https://time.com/5307244/anthony-bourdain-mother-gladys-bourdain/ author: Jennifer Calfas article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-06-09T22:03:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T20:31:31.279Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Anthony Bourdain's Mother Says She Never Thought He Would Die by Suicide og:description: "The last person in the world I would have ever dreamed would do something like this" og:url: https://time.com/5307244/anthony-bourdain-mother-gladys-bourdain/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt27bb0b1935364fc2/698932aefb4eac19dd896d4f/anthony-bourdain-1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Chef Anthony Bourdain has a drink at Tintol restaurant in Ti og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Anthony Bourdain's Mother Says She Never Thought He Would Die by Suicide twitter:description: "The last person in the world I would have ever dreamed would do something like this" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt27bb0b1935364fc2/698932aefb4eac19dd896d4f/anthony-bourdain-1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'He Had Everything.' 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(Photo by James Keivom/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images) Chef Anthony Bourdain has a drink at Tintol restaurant in Times Square. Bourdain, 49, is the star of "Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations," the Travel Channel series that's half travelogue and half food show. Traveling constantly for the show, on which he regularly grosses viewers out by eating such delicacies as fermented shark meat in Iceland - "the smell alone would stop a rhinoceros in its tracks," he says - means he's only in his Manhattan apartment a few days out of the month. (Photo by James Keivom/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)New York Daily News Archive—NY Daily News via Getty Images by [Jennifer Calfas](https://time.com/author/jennifer-calfas/) ## Jennifer Calfas Jun 9, 2018 10:03 PM UTC Anthony Bourdain’s mother has expressed shock and sadness over the death of her son in an [interview with the New York _Times_](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/08/business/media/anthony-bourdain-dead.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news). “He is absolutely the last person in the world I would have ever dreamed would do something like this,” Gladys Bourdain, who was an editor at the _Times_ for years, [told the newspaper](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/08/business/media/anthony-bourdain-dead.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news). Bourdain, the renowned chef and author whose storytelling and traveling influenced others and embraced different cultures, died this week in an apparent suicide. He was 61 years old. “He had everything,” his mother told the _Times_. “Success beyond his wildest dreams. Money beyond his wildest dreams.” Gladys Bourdain told the _Times_ that Eric Ripert, a French chef and close friend of her son’s, told her that Bourdain “had been in a dark mood these past couple of days.” Bourdain’s death shocked and saddened the world this week as fans and friends of his expressed the impact he had on their lives and the influential role he had in the restaurant industry. Restaurant owners and chefs who he visited in his variety of TV shows point to him as [a reason for their growing success](http://www.time.com/5307208/anthony-bourdain-restaurant-owners/), and fans took to social media to express how he used his platform to convey empathy and understanding. Bourdain’s suicide followed that of Kate Spade, an influential fashion designer [who had died](http://time.com/5301854/kate-spade-dead/) in an apparent suicide at age 55, and came at a time when the [rates of suicide were on the rise](http://time.com/5304227/suicide-on-the-rise/) across the U.S. Mental health professionals [advised people to reach out](http://time.com/5306026/suicide-warning-signs-what-to-do/) and support friends or loved ones who may be struggling, and learn to identify warning signs like depression or changes in behavior, among other behaviors. The deaths of two influential figures in their respective fields have also provoked conversations about how successful people are not immune depression, mental health issues or suicide. TIME’s Belinda Luscombe [detailed this in a piece](http://time.com/5305955/anthony-bourdain-kate-spade-death-envy/), where she examined the deaths of Bourdain and Kate Spade, the influential fashion designer who had died by an apparent suicide days earlier. “Many lives are not as they appear. Happiness is not the end result of a sum of accomplishments,” Luscombe [writes](http://time.com/5305955/anthony-bourdain-kate-spade-death-envy/). “The person whose wealth/wardrobe/job/talent you wish you had has his or her own struggles, and they could at least equal our own.” _If you or someone you know may be contemplating suicide, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5307244/anthony-bourdain-mother-gladys-bourdain/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5307244/anthony-bourdain-mother-gladys-bourdain/"},"headline":"'He Had Everything.' 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