Since Anthony Bourdain's death earlier this year, serious allegations have come to light surrounding his relationship with his girlfriend at the time of his death, Asia Argento. There have been accusations of sexual assault, bribery and now even that she murdered him. Argento revealed the truth about their relationship and the trials of widespread online harassment in an interview with Daily Mail TV.

“People say I murdered him,” she said in the interview. “They say I killed him. But I understand that the world needs to find a reason. I would like to find a reason too. I don’t have it. Maybe I would feel some solace in thinking there was something that happened. I understand that people wanted to blame me because he was so deeply loved and he entered in the hearts of so many people, into their lives, into their hearts. So in a way I understand that they [want to] see me as the negative person, the destroyer.”

The Italian actress went on to explain that she and Bourdain did not have a conventional relationship.

“Anthony was a very smart man, one of the smartest people I have met – wise, deep,” she continued. “People need to think that he killed himself for something like this? He had cheated on me too. It wasn’t a problem for us. He was a man who traveled 265 days a year when we saw each other we took really great pleasure in each other’s company. But we are not children. We are grown ups. Anthony was 62. I was 42. We had lives, we had wives and husbands, we had children. I cannot think of Anthony as somebody who would do an extreme gesture like this for something like that.”

Watch Asia Argento's entire emotional interview with Daily Mail TV.