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
having been through it myself, going to a meeting of addicts. they had something to say to me, and i had something to say to them. there was a vulnerability to him and as cool as he was there was a vulnerability to him that he would he would expose. i ll tell you something really shameful about myself. the first time i shot up i looked at myself in the mirror with a big grin. something was missing in me, whether it was a self-image situation, whether it was a character flaw. i had a stable family in the suburbs and i had a lot of advantages and there was a dark genie inside me that i hesitate to call a disease that led me to dope. i didn t have anyone else who could have talked me out of what i was doing, but intervention wouldn t have worked. i didn t have a child. i have a 7-year-old daughter now who i never would have had.
him and as cool as he was there was a vulnerability to him that he would he would expose. i ll tell you something really shameful about myself. the first time i shot up i looked at myself in the mirror with a big grin. something was missing in me, whether it was a self-image situation, whether it was a character flaw. i had a stable family in the suburbs and i had a lot of advantages and there was a dark genie inside me that i hesitate to call a disease that led me to dope. i didn t have anyone else who could have talked me out of what i was doing, but intervention wouldn t have worked. i didn t have a child. i have a 7-year-old daughter now who i never would have had. i never would have thought. i looked in a mirror, and i i saw somebody worth saving or that i wanted to at least try real hard and save.
looked at myself in the mirror with a big grin. you know, something was missing in me, whether it was a self-image situation, whether it was a character flaw. that stable family in the suburbs, i had a lot of advantages. there was some dark jennie inside me that led me to dope, i didn t have anyone else who could have talked me out of what i was doing. intervention wouldn t have worked. i didn t have a child. i have a 7-year-old daughter now, who i never would have had, i never would have thought. i looked in the mirror, i saw somebody worth saving, or that i wanted to at least try real hard and save. anybody could find themselves very easily in this situation. and, you know i look back and i think about, you know, i think about what i ll tell my daughter. you know, that was daddy.
inside me that i hesitate to call disease, that led me to dope. i didn t have anyone else who could have talked me out of what i was doing. intervention wouldn t have worked. i didn t have a child. i have a 7-year-old daughter now, who i never would have had, i never would have thought. i looked in the mirror, i saw somebody worth saving, or that i wanted to at least try real hard and save. anybody could find themselves very easily in this situation. and, you know i look back and i think about, you know, i think about what i ll tell my daughter. you know, that was daddy. no doubt about it that i hope i ll be able to say that was daddy then and this is daddy now, that i m alive, living and healthy. he brought to cnn something that very few others had brought and that was a sense of knowing who he was, not being afraid of saying who he was. of not being afraid to relate