‘Eat, Pray, Love’ author Elizabeth Gilbert’s partner dead at 57

mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin”>Foodie favoritemajor-latin”> major-latin”>Eat, Pray, Lovemso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin”> author Elizabeth Gilbert’s partner Rayya Elias has died after a yearslong battle with pancreatic and liver mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin”>cancermajor-latin”>. The writer and filmmaker was diagnosed in 2016 - which led Gilbert to split from her husband, José Nunes (portrayed by Javier Bardem in the 2010 on-screen adaptation of the memoir) to be with Elias.

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mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin”>”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. “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.”

mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin”>On January 4, alongside an Instagram photo of Elias, Gilbert wrote: “I loved you so much, Rayya. Thank you for letting me walk with you right to the edge of the river. It has been the greatest honor of my life. I would tell you to rest in peace, but I know that you always found peace boring. May you rest in excitement. I will always love you.”

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mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin”>Four days prior, Gilbert had shared a photo of her nuzzled up to Elias captioned: “Happy New Year, everyone. You made it. We made it. Blessed be.”

mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin”>For more too-soon fatalities, here are mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin”>13 tragic and unfortunate food deathsmso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin”>.

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