Because people care enough to engage. Thats another thing that is revealed by suicide, another dirty secret. We need to care, caring counts. It can literally be medicine for someone in mental or emotional suffering. So, reach out. Dont wonder whats going on with someone, ask them. We are all in this together and we need to show it. If you do, it can literally be a life save. Im chris cuomo. Thank you so much for being with me this week. Please stay tuned for a special cnn contribute remembering anthony bowurdain. I think everybody who listens to The Parts Unknown are elect tied and peers through
this. Anthony bourdain is dead. I was shocked. I think i actually screamed, oh, no. This is cnn breaking news. We have some terribly sad news to report this morning, Heart Breaking and devastation. Once we were sure all of us gotten the numbers had been notified thats when We Wen On The Air with the news. Host of parts unknown and our friend Anthony Bourdain was found dead. Anthony hung himself
overliquored overfed, traveling the world having fun connecting with people and getting paid to do it. oh, enchanted land of my childhood. a culture petri dish, from which regularly issued forth greatness. new jersey in case you didn t know it, has beautiful beaches. they re not all crawling with raging trolls with reality shows. i grew up summering on these beaches and they were awesome. he just was a regular person, you know in his regular jeans and regular shirt. he had no pretension or interest in pretension, it was one of the most compelling and endearing things about him. he was somebody who was introverted and just happened to have this very public job of being on television and being in the public eye. it was interesting, he was
i love the struggle. i love trying to figure out how to get out of this and what to do next. and that struggle, no matter how much you think that s it, i m going to have to tap out, i find a way out of it, i love it. anthony earned practically every award you can earn in the t.v. industry. five emmy awards just for parts unknown. the p-body in 2013 was presented his first year on cnn. we asked specific questions, what makes you happy wharks do you eat wharks do you like to cook. and everywhere in the world we go and ask these simple questions he get astoning answer. viewers felt like they ve lost a friend, pause they found a friend in him through
stigma. to know he had overcome those things i think is inspirational. i think it gives everybody hope to know they can overcome something really hard. and that is why the pain of this, i think is doubly compounded, because he had overcome, it seemed, some demons in the past. and i guess that doesn t make you bullet proof. you know, i didn t know him well enough to know to know if he was still haunted by it put i m sure it never leaves you. when you go through that kind of experience it s always going to be there. you might it, deal with it, and move on. i always thought he did an amazing job in moving on. and in the process, helping all of us move on. he was so real and so authentic, in the end, maybe he was too real for his own self. i think the real thing the know
points. where is home? most of us are born with the answer. others have to sift through the pieces. and he touched on the basic ingredients for all humanity no matter where it exists, and that s why no place was too remote, no people too obscure, no cuisine too exotic. he could make everything familiar. what a gift. what a blessing that was. the tragedy is that it wasn t enough for tony to know his own self-worth. i hope that our world can take just one more gift from tony bourdain and really, really, really try to explore in all its facets the problems of mental health. this is cnn breaking news. our terrible news to report that