Paula Deen revisited her feud with late chef Anthony Bourdain in her new documentary — and she or he didn't maintain again.
In Canceled: The Paula Deen Story, which premiered on Saturday, September 6, on the 2025 Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant, Deen, 78, addressed her previous points with Bourdain.
“God relaxation his soul,” Deen mentioned within the movie, in keeping with Entertainment Weekly. “I felt like he didn't like anyone. Not even himself, possibly.”
Deen additionally responded to feedback Bourdain made about her via the years. Bourdain, who died by suicide in 2018, beforehand claimed Deen was a “harmful” presence in American tradition.
“The worst, most harmful individual to America is clearly Paula Deen,” he advised TV Information Journal in 2011. “She revels in unholy connections with evil companies, and she or he's pleased with the truth that her meals is f****ing unhealthy for you.”
Bourdain additionally argued Deen's meals “sucks.” Her son Bobby shut down the unfavourable feedback in Saturday's doc, saying, “I feel each are inaccurate.”
Deen, for her half, criticized Bourdain's exhibits Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations and Anthony Bourdain: Elements Unknown, which noticed him touring the world to attempt cuisines from totally different cultures.
“I don't know what he was off in these overseas international locations consuming. Bat brains or one thing like that,” she fired again. “I feel I'll simply stick to my fried hen.”
The digs would possibly sound acquainted for individuals who noticed Deen make related feedback throughout a 2011 look on The Pleasure Behar Present. “Let me inform you one thing, girlfriend,” she mentioned on the time. “Perhaps [my food] is unhealthy for you, however I don't go round consuming or serving unwashed anuses of wildebeests.”
Whereas Bourdain by no means publicly consumed bat brains, he was documented consuming warthog anus when he traveled with indigenous Namibians in a No Reservation episode.
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“Lesson one as a traveler: Meals given as a gesture of hospitality is at all times gratefully accepted, at all times,” he mentioned on the time. “As a result of irrespective of how bizarre or horrible it could appear to you, for another person, it's their technique of subsistence.”
Regardless of her ongoing grievances with the late Bourdain, the doc later confirmed Deen expressing remorse over their points. “He began one thing with me, and I'd by no means even met him,” she famous.
Canceled: The Paula Deen Story follows the rise and fall of Deen's profession, which started as a caterer. Deen grew to become a wildly well-liked Meals Community star, however she later discovered herself on the heart of a racial-slur scandal.
“Once they lay me down, I don't need my tombstone to say, ‘Right here lies the physique of a racist,'” she mentioned within the doc. “I need my soul again. To lose your status is like shedding your soul.”
Canceled: The Paula Deen Story remains to be awaiting distribution and a launch date.
