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Val Kilmer Calls Bourdain ‘Selfish’ For Taking His Own Life

Katie Jerkovich Entertainment Reporter
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Val Kilmer had some strong words about Anthony Bourdain’s apparent suicide Friday, calling the celebrity chef “selfish” for taking his own life.

The “Parts Unknown” star was found dead in his hotel room in France on Friday. He was 61 years old.

“Oh the dark thick pain of loss. The selfishness. How many moments away were you from feeling the love that was universal. From every corner of the world you were loved. So selfish. You’ve given us cause to be so angry,” the 58-year-old actor wrote in a lengthy Facebook post.

“So what? I hear you took your life in paris. What hotel? Did you relapse? Did you just get home from the best meal of your life? Did you cheat on your girl. Those of us that knew you are shocked and angry and angry and angry selfishly angry, for what you just did to us,” he added. “Millions I should think. At least a million people like me who imagine they know you.”

“Would you have taken your life two years ago when like me you were unable to take in food and move it with your tongue over your taste buds because your tongue was too swollen,” he continued, mentioning his own battle with throat cancer. “Is too swollen. I think and dream and plan on eating and tasting and enjoying every meal I’ve ever enjoyed and every meal I’ve learned to enjoy in my imagination, [although] I’ve never met a meal I didn’t like in the last 40 years except anything with too much cilantro.”

“Was that it? You woke up and realized you were no longer hungry. And that even with a young daughter at home you would never be hungry enough again to want to take in breath,” Kilmer wrote. “Was your father’s hate so still so present as to cloud over every last sunny moment of every single damn day Anthony.”

“You could have and should have given it one more shot,” he added. “Sometimes we must live in service to another’s life and live with no hope of equality. Life isn’t fair that way. Who says you had a right to take away all this love from us so soon? Oh the darkness. The darkness on the edge of town. ‘There’s a darkness in the edge of town…’you left too soon my friend. I fell asleep to watching you enjoy Uruguay last night. It was a rerun but I always find something I didn’t see before… you left too soon. And I’m going to prove it…”