Asia Argento is remembering her late boyfriend Anthony Bourdain on what would have been his 65th birthday.
On Friday, the Italian actress shared a series of photos and videos to Instagram, including shots of the couple hugging and a closeup of Bourdain’s wrist tattoo reading “damaged.”
Argento also posted several sweet videos of the former chef cooking — and one particularly poignant clip of the “Kitchen Confidential” scribe looking into the camera and saying wistfully, “I’m cold and I wish I was with you now.”
“Celebrating the most incredible man I have ever met,” she wrote. “Missing you every day. Cherishing each moment we shared in our life together. I feel your presence and your strength. You shine so bright within me. I love you my A. Happy birthday ❤️”
The couple met in 2016 when Argento, 45, appeared on his CNN travel and cooking show “Parts Unknown.”
The “Queen Margot” actress found herself on the receiving end of a backlash after Bourdain’s 2018 death, accusing her of contributing to Bourdain’s suicide with her infidelity.
Two months after his death, Argento spoke out.
“People say I murdered him. They say I killed him. I understand that the world needs to find a reason. I would like to find a reason too,” she said in a DailyMailTV interview.
“People need to think that he killed himself for something like this. He cheated on me too. It wasn’t a problem for us.”
She continued, “He was a man who traveled 265 days a year. When we saw each other, we took really great pleasure in each other’s presence, but we are not children. We are grown-ups.”
“What I do feel terrible about is that he had so much pain inside of him and I didn’t see it. I did not see it and for that, I will feel guilty for the rest of my life,” she said.
On the anniversary of Bourdain’s passing last year, Argento posted a raw photo of herself with tear-filled, swollen eyes.
“You want pain? Here’s the pain. No filter needed. Two years without my love,” she captioned the stark image.
Last year on June 25, two of Bourdain’s culinary pals, Éric Ripert and Spanish chef José Andrés, encouraged fans to toast their late friend on what they dubbed #BourdainDay.
A documentary film about Bourdain, titled “Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain,” will be released on July 16.