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“Eat, Pray, Love” author Elizabeth Gilbert announced on Wednesday that she is in a relationship with a woman.

The best-selling author, 47, wrote in a Facebook post that she is in love with her best friend Rayya Elias. She says she discovered her feelings after Elias was diagnosed with pancreatic and liver cancer.

“Something happened to my heart and mind in the days and weeks following Rayya’s diagnosis. 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, I was faced with this truth: I do not merely love Rayya; I am in love with Rayya,” Gilbert writes.

“Here is where we stand now: Rayya and I are together. I love her, and she loves me. I’m walking through this cancer journey with her, not only as her friend, but as her partner. I am exactly where I need to be — the only place I can be,” Gilbert continued.

Gilbert made headlines earlier this year when she announced the divorce from her second husband Jose Nunes, who she met at the end of her “Eat, Pray, Love” journey.

“For those of you who are doing the math here, and who are wondering if this situation is why my marriage came to an end this spring, the simple answer is yes,” Gilbert writes. “(Please understand that I cannot say anything more about it than that. I trust you are all sensitive enough to understand how difficult this has been. As David Foster Wallace once wrote: “The truth will set you free — but not until it’s had its way with you.” Yes, it has been hard. Yes, the truth has had its way with us. And yes, the truth still stands).”