Anthony Bourdain Breaks His Silence on His Divorce: "Nobody Feels Like the Injured Party"

Chef reveals he and Ottavia Busia have "no drama"

Anthony Bourdain is opening up about his divorce from mixed martial artist Ottavia Busia.

Married for nine years, Bourdain and Busia are going their separate ways amicably. "My wife and I live, have lived, very separate lives for years," Bourdain told People magazine. "There's no drama here. We get along really, really well and it's not a big lifestyle change happening here."

The 60-year-old No Reservations host shares one daughter, Ariane, with Busia. He confessed that he and his soon-to-be ex-wife were on different paths as a result of their very different careers, which was "really tough." Having to be away from his daughter and wife for "about 250 days a year" to work on projects such as Parts Unknown and No Reservations became a strain. For better or for worse, it's what his daughter "is used to."

"You know, this is a girl who knows her parents are weird," he explained. "We have somehow managed to raise a very healthy, very happy, self-assured little girl who knows she's loved, who finds her parents entertaining."

Despite their divorce, Bourdain and Busia are dedicated to co-parenting. "As a family, I think we've done a really good job and we're doing a really good job and would like to keep it that way" Bourdain said.

"As a marriage, clearly it's not ideal but there's no injured party here, nobody's angry, nobody feels like the injured party, nobody feels like a victim. So we'll proceed like that."

After the pair's split news broke last week, a source told E! News that they're going to remain friends. "They are still very supportive of each other," the insider said. The news also didn't come as a surprise to some, as a source told Page Six that they had been "separated for a while."