![]() ![]() ![]() I'm walking through this cancer journey with her, not only as her friend but as her partner." She continued, "The thought of someday sitting in a hospital room with her, holding her hand and watching her slide away, without ever having let her (or myself!) know the extent of my true feelings for her. And I have no more time for denying that truth." "I was faced with this truth: I do not merely love Rayya I am in love with Rayya. ![]() "Death - or the prospect of death - has a way of clearing away everything that is not real, and in that space of stark and utter realness," Gilbert wrote in a 2016 Facebook post. That summer, she divorced her husband of 12 years, Jose Nunes (portrayed by Javier Bardem in the 2010 film adaptation of Eat Pray Love) to be with Elias. I will always love you."Įlias, 57, a fellow author, songwriter and short filmmaker, was diagnosed with pancreatic and liver cancer in 2016, prompting Gilbert, now 48, to realize the depth of her feelings for her best friend of 15 years. "I would tell you to rest in peace, but I know that you always found peace boring," she wrote overnight Thursday on Instagram. Two years after taking her same-sex relationship public, Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert is mourning the death of her partner, Rayya Elias. Watch Video: 'Eat, Pray, Love' author Elizabeth Gilbert mourns death of partner ![]()
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