Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert announces she is in a same-sex relationship: 'I love her, and she loves me'

In a Facebook post, Gilbert describes the revelation that followed her best friend Rayya Elias’s cancer diagnosis

The bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert has announced that her marriage with her husband, Jose Nunes – who features in two of her books – ended this year after she entered into a romantic same-sex relationship with her best friend, the Syrian-born author Rayya Elias.

In a lengthy Facebook post on Wednesday, Gilbert said her feelings for Elias became apparent after learning of her friend’s diagnosis with pancreatic and liver cancers. “Death — or the prospect of death — has a way of clearing away everything that is not real,” she said. “In that space of stark and utter realness, I was faced with this truth: I do not merely love Rayya; I am in love with Rayya. And I have no more time for denying that truth.”

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