Anthony Bourdain did not have any narcotics in his system at the time of his death, officials said Friday.
The celebrity chef, author and TV host hanged himself this month in a hotel room in Kayersberg, France, where he had been filming an episode of his popular CNN show “Parts Unknown.” He was 61.
French prosecutor Christian de Rocquigney de Fayel told the New York Times in a text message that there were no drugs in Bourdain’s system — save for a normal dose of a non-narcotic medicine.
The New York chef was cremated in France and his remains and belongings were sent to his younger brother and only sibling, Christopher, his mother, Gladys Bourdain, told the paper.
The family plans to have a small memorial in the future, she said.
Bourdain spoke and wrote about his past drug use frankly, detailing his once-prolific use of cocaine, heroin and other drugs in a 2014 episode of “Parts Unknown.”
He bought his first bag of heroin on the Lower East Side in 1980, when he was 24, but kicked the addiction later in the ’80s.