Anthony Bourdain with Ottavia Busia-Bourdain.Photo: Discovery Access / Focus Features
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“I thought he was going to be this bad boy — a little bit arrogant and not what I was expecting but endearing nonetheless,” she says of their early dating life.
TheParts Unknownhost had long said he wasn’t sure he’d be a great dad, but when he finally settled down, Busia revealed he was over the moon. “Any doubts I may have had, dissipated when I realized how happy he was that he was going to be a father,” she says in the film.
But traveling for 250 days out of the year can no doubt take a toll on a relationship, a family. So after nine years of marriage, the pair announced their separation.
“It always seemed like what he wanted was this idyllic picture of family and ordinary life but then when he got it, I don’t know if he was … I don’t know. After a while maybe that wasn’t enough anymore,” she says.
Bourdain entered a whirlwind romance withItalian actress Asia Argentoin 2017, and the highs and lows of their relationship are thoroughly documented inRoadrunner. In one particularly heart-wrenching scene, Busia talks about her dynamic with Bourdain post-separation.
“He was not the same person. Something changed and became really heavy but he started going to therapy at a certain point and I thought, ‘I can take a step back, I don’t have to be like you know always so worried about him,’ " she says.
“I feel like that is something that I will always … I should have kept an eye on him more,” she adds through tears.
Anthony Bourdain, Ottavia Busia-Bourdain and daughter Ariane.Anthony Bourdain/Instagram
Instead of focusing on his ultimate death, Busia chooses to be grateful for the child they raised together: “I am so lucky because she is the best daughter I could hope for.”
“I think this is the last time I’ll ever talk publically about it because that’s not the way I want to remember him,” she adds. “I want to remember when we were together, all the amazing things that we’d done and the amazing person that he was.”
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdainis in theaters now.
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source: people.com
