Fans of Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert could be forgiven for assuming her life after publishing the best-seller which spent 57 weeks at the top of the New York Times bestseller list has been pretty peachy.
After all, despite blowing up her marriage and the affair that was the root cause and travelling across three countries aged 34, she had embarked on a journey of personal discovery and found her Hollywood hunk in the form of 'Felipe' - a Brazilian businessman named Jose Nunes.
But just 11 years later, Gilbert found herself seriously, calculatingly, plotting the death of her female partner amid a co-dependency spiral accelerated by drug addiction and the impending doom of her lover's terminal cancer diagnosis.
'When I say that I once planned to murder Rayya, I don't mean that the idea simply crossed my mind that my life would be easier if she were gone. I mean that I fully intended to kill her. And I tell this story in all its raw honesty, because I want people to understand how insane co-dependency can make a person become,' Gilbert told the Times.
'I came very close to premeditatedly and cold-bloodedly murdering my partner because she had taken her affection away from me, and because I was extremely tired. That's the sort of person I become when I'm in my insanity.'
