Anne Burrell’s death left her loved ones reeling.
And for her husband Stuart Claxton, the nature of her passing—which involved a note expressing suicidal ideation, per a police report obtained by People—will always remain a heartbreaking mystery.
According to the report, Stuart—whose name was redacted but was identified as an individual “married to Anne”—told police the chef had “never attempted suicide in the past” and had “never talked about it.”
Additionally, he shared his wife had never shown nor had he ever witnessed “any signs that she would do something like this.” He also confirmed to law enforcement that Anne did not have any medical conditions and that she had used cocaine in the past but that had occurred “a few years” before her 2025 death.
According to the report, Stuart found Anne, 55, on the morning of her June 17 death in their bathroom with “a bunch of over the counter pills on the floor” alongside a “ceramic bowl filled with over the counter allergy and over the counter pain medication.”