Argento’s friend Rose McGowan has already spoken out on the issue, saying that “we need to have a conversation about suicide… blame is not that conversation.”

“I know so many around the world thought of Anthony Bourdain as a friend and when a friend dies, it hurts,” she wrote.

“Many of these people who lost their ‘friend’ are wanting to lash out and blame. You must not sink to that level. Suicide is a horrible choice, but it is that person’s choice.”

“Do NOT do the sexist thing and burn a woman on the pyre of misplaced blame,” she continued. “Anthony’s internal war was his war, but now she’s been left on the battlefield to take the bullets. It is in no way fair or acceptable to blame her or anyone else, not even Anthony.

“We are asking you to be better, to look deeper, to read and learn about mental illness, suicide and depression before you make it worse for survivors by judging that which we do not understand, that which can never fully be understood. Sometimes we are stuck in the unknowable, and that is where we are now, a massive wave of darkness that threatens to swallow everyone in its wake.”

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Asia Argento has been blamed for Anthony Bourdain’s suicide – here is why she should be vindicated, according to her fellow Me Too campaigners