Paula Deen Speaks Ill of Late Anthony Bourdain: ‘Didn’t Like Anybody, Not Even Himself’

When it comes to the late Anthony Bourdain, Paula Deen still has an ax to grind, apparently. Deen dissed her fellow celebrity chef in the new documentary Canceled: The Paula Deen Story. The doc, which premiered on Saturday at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, covers the rise and fall of Deen’s career and includes coverage of her war of words with Bourdain, who died by suicide in 2018. “God rest his soul,” Deen says in film, per Entertainment Weekly. “I felt like he didn’t like anybody. Not even himself, maybe.” In her interview in the film, the Southern chef also revisits Bourdain calling her “the worst, most dangerous” person in America.