The Anne Burrell death police report has revealed new details about the circumstances surrounding the celebrity chef’s passing at age 55.
According to New York Police Department records obtained by media outlets, a handwritten note dated the morning of her death was discovered in the primary bedroom of her Brooklyn home on 17 June 2025.
Investigators also found several journal entries described as “suicidal” on a bed in the same room.
The report states that in the early hours of that morning, Stuart Claxton, identified as someone “married to Anne”, noticed the bed had been made, which he described as unusual.
Claxton later found Burrell on the bathroom floor with over-the-counter pills scattered nearby. He attempted to wake her by shaking her and slapping her face before calling 911 when she did not respond.
Emergency services were contacted around 7:50 a.m. local time after concerns were raised that she had suffered cardiac arrest. Authorities confirmed she was found unconscious and unresponsive and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Claxton reportedly told police that his wife had never previously attempted suicide and had not expressed thoughts of harming herself.
In July 2025, the New York City medical examiner’s office officially ruled her death a suicide. The cause was listed as acute intoxication due to the combined effects of diphenhydramine, ethanol, cetirizine, and amphetamine.
The New York Times later reported, citing internal police documents, that she was found surrounded by approximately 100 assorted pills.
An NYPD spokesperson confirmed that she was discovered unconscious at her home and pronounced dead by emergency medical staff.
Anne Burrell was widely known as a longtime star on Food Network’s Worst Cooks in America. She met Stuart Claxton on the dating app Bumble in 2018, and the couple married in October 2021. She is survived by her husband, her son Javier, her mother, Marlene, her sister, Jane, Jane’s children, Isabella, Amelia, and Nicolas, and her brother, Ben.
