Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert splits from husband

EAT Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert is splitting up with her husband, whom she describes meeting at the end of her million-selling memoir.

The romance immortalised in the film Eat Pray Love has come to an end.

THE author of Eat Pray Love is splitting up with her husband, whom she describes meeting at the end of her million-selling memoir.

Elizabeth Gilbert announced on her Facebook page on Friday that she was separating from Jose Nunes after being together for 12 years and married since 2007.

Author Elizabeth Gilbert has split from her husband.

She called the parting “very amicable” and the reasons “very personal”.

“Because I have shared details of my private life with you all so intimately over the years, I feel the need to share with you this recent change in my personal life,” she wrote.

I am separating from the man whom many of you know as “Felipe” — the man whom I fell in love with at the end of the EAT PRAY LOVE journey. He has been my dear companion for over 12 years, and they have been wonderful years. Our split is very amicable. Our reasons are very personal.

At this time of transition, I hope you will respect our privacy. In my heart, I know that you will do so, because I trust that you understand how this is a story that I am living — not a story that I am telling.

I thank you for your love, and for your kindness, and for your continued blessings. Hold us in your thoughts. And I hope you will understand and forgive me if I am a bit absent from social media during this sensitive moment.”

The posting was confirmed by Gilbert’s publicist at Riverhead Books, Jynne Martin.

Gilbert’s book, published in 2006 and adapted into a film of the same name starring Julia Roberts, tells of her worldwide journey in the wake of breaking up with her first husband.

Javier Bardem as Felipe and Julia Roberts as Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat Pray Love.

Gilbert, 46, wrote at length about her marriage to Nunes in the 2010 bestseller Committed: A Love Story.

She has also written novels and short stories.

The book was a massive hit.

Originally published as Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert splits from husband