Rayya was more than my best friend—she was my person. I've never made a secret of it. An addictive paean to messy female friendship that centres on four women who pal up at university, and together weather varied emotional crises. © 2020 Vox Media, LLC. Now, 15 months after the tragic death of Elias (right) from cancer at the age of 57, Elizabeth Gilbert has fallen in love again — this time with a man, But this week in an Instagram post, Miss Gilbert, 49, introduced her new love to the world with the following words: ‘Please meet my sweetheart, Mr Simon MacArthur. *Sorry, there was a problem signing you up. But Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of ... My best friend Rayya Elias was diagnosed with pancreatic and liver cancer – a disease for which there is no cure," she wrote. ‘Something happened to my heart and mind in the days and weeks following Rayya’s diagnosis,’ she continued. Florence Welch Thinks You Smell Better Without Deodorant. He’s a photographer from the UK. I would tell you to rest in peace, but I know you always found peace boring. And I have no more time for denying that truth.’. by Kevin Barry, review: stories of solitude that are far from glum, To the End of the World Gilbert may have written the best-selling memoir Eat Pray Love, but next to the colourful history of her lover, Rayya Elias, even she paled. After her diagnosis, I was forced to confront an inconvenient truth: Rayya was the love of my life. I am an ardent animal rights advocate and avid scuba diver, campaigning for the end of the use of plastics that are devastating oceanic life.’. Although Miss Gilbert set off on her voyage, swearing she will ‘never, ever, under any circumstance, marry again’, in 2007 she did marry her exotic, older lover ‘Felipe’, Jose Nunes. Disease and drugs and pain altered the way Rayya acted, walked, smelled, spoke. She didn’t ask if I’d take care of him after she died. But it’s one for another day. She was in her 50s—happily single, never more at peace with life—and didn’t want the responsibility. Seit Juni 2017 war Gilbert mit der syrischstämmigen Musikerin und Filmemacherin Rayya Elias verheiratet, die im Januar 2018 ihrer Krebserkrankung erlag. Janelle Monáe, Alicia Keys, Tracee Ellis Ross, and more powerful women on self-worth. Now, 15 months after her lover’s tragic death from cancer at the age of 57, Elizabeth Gilbert has fallen in love again — this time with a man. Socialite sleuth Amory Ames pitches up in Prohibition-era New York for a childhood friend’s wedding. She continued: ‘One of the reasons I was so free that year was because I was such a mess. I'm walking through this cancer journey with her, not only as her friend, but as her partner. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Self-isolating? In her final two months, Rayya grew gentle and tender again. On the day she died, he needed four walks. The incurable diagnosis brought them together. Eat, Pray, Love, which was adapted into a film starring Julia Roberts, tells the story of how Gilbert, then 32, travelled to Italy, where she savoured the local food, spent four months exploring spirituality by scrubbing temple floors in India and then arrived in Bali, finally finding love after a messy divorce. She’d been diagnosed with pancreatic and liver cancer, and it was terminal. I guess he’s okay, I thought. Blowing that up was essential for me.’, Her second marriage, to José Nunes, ended after nine years and while it might have been a surprise to others to see him supplanted by Elias in Gilbert’s affections, Nunes himself was ‘gracious and lovely’ in the aftermath. Now, 15 months after her lover’s tragic death from cancer at the age of 57, Elizabeth Gilbert has fallen in love again — this time with a man. A post shared by Elizabeth Gilbert (@elizabeth_gilbert_writer) on Jul 31, 2018 at 3:32am PDT. And now she was going to die. Das muss man über die Schriftstellerin wissen. French bulldogs are mutants, once-noble canines ruined by humanity’s dumb instinct to genetically engineer cuteness. "I know it sounds like a love story and it totally is," Elias added. It’s OK to live, and to love.’, Born in Claverham, Bristol, New York-based documentary photographer and ‘environmental portraitist’ Mr MacArthur (left) describes himself on his website as ‘a globetrotter, intensely curious about the way the world works in how best to pass on that curiosity to others — always looking for what’s around the next corner'. The Third Presidential Debate of 2020 Is Nearly Upon Us. As she memorably detailed in Eat Pray Love, her first marriage, to human rights activist Michael Cooper, wasn’t making her happy. You could argue it has all the hallmarks of another Hollywood blockbuster, sequel perhaps to the 2010 film adaptation of Gilbert’s bestseller (it’s been translated into 30 languages) starring Julia Roberts as Gilbert and Spanish actor Javier Bardem as ‘Felipe’.