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. The Italian actress, 42, had been dating the renowned chef, author and television host for more than a year when he died by suicide at age 61 on June 8. The Times reports that there was only a “trace of a nonnarcotic medicine in a therapeutic dose” in his system. If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), text “help” to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 or go to suicidepreventionlifeline.org.
– With French police calling Anthony Bourdain's death a suicide, only one investigative question remained: What substances were in his body? The answer: none, save a therapeutic dose of nonnarcotic medicine, a French prosecutor tells the New York Times. "No trace of narcotics. No trace of any toxic products," says the prosecutor, per Reuters. The late celebrity chef, 61, had talked openly about his past substance abuse but said he had cleaned up in rehab in the 1990s and drank without any problems since, per People. Now Bourdain's family will likely hold a private ceremony with his ashes, his mother Gladys Bourdain tells the Times. "He would want as little fuss as possible," she says. Gladys never much liked his tattoos, which reflected his culinary adventures, but she's decided to get one herself—the word "Tony" on her inner wrist in small letters. She plans to use her son's tattoo artist and says she won't get any other tattoos. As news broke Friday of the French toxicology test, Today reports, Italian actress Asia Argento posted an Instagram photo of the pair smiling in front of sun-drenched water: "Two weeks without you," she wrote. (Rose McGowan wants people to stop blaming Argento for his suicide.)