Her insistence she had given up her “rock star” lifestyle, the celebrated Food Network star was found dead in her Brooklyn apartment by her husband – slumped on her shower floor surrounded pills.
The 55-year-old Worst Cooks in America host and Secrets of a Restaurant Chef star was discovered unconscious at around 7:50am on Tuesday, June 17.
Emergency responders from the New York Fire Department confirmed they arrived following a report of cardiac arrest, though the official cause of death is still under investigation by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
In a resurfaced interview on misSPELLING, the podcast hosted by longtime friend Tori Spelling, Burrell opened up about meeting her husband Stuart Claxton, 52, on a dating app in her late 40s and embracing a new chapter.
“I was like, living the rock star chef life,” she said. “I was working a lot, and I had a great social life. I just started to feel like, all right, you’re getting a little old to keep on doing this.”
But our source said: “Anne‘s friends now fear her statement she had given up wild living was all a shame to cover up years of addiction.
“It seems she was hiding a disastrous addiction to prescription pills while putting on a front she was leading a wholesome life.”
Burrell married Claxton on October 16, 2021, in a fall-themed wedding in Cazenovia, New York, near where she grew up. Along with marriage came stepmotherhood to Claxton’s 22-year-old son, Javier.
“Being a stepmom is the perfect amount of parenting for me,” she also told Spelling on her podcast.
