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Elizabeth Gilbert Says She Once Planned to Kill Partner Rayya Elias in New Memoir

The admission appears in a memoir recounting a descent into drugs during Elias’s terminal illness.

Overview

  • Gilbert recounts that she fully intended to kill Elias, describing plans to cause an overdose using sleeping pills or fentanyl patches.
  • She writes that she also contemplated taking her own life by drowning during the same period.
  • In the memoir, Gilbert says she facilitated Elias’s drug use, registering for clean needles and helping inject cocaine into her arms, legs, feet, and neck.
  • Her account describes a 2017 spiral of co-dependence and frequent drug use, including mushrooms, MDMA, and cocaine that she funded after prescribed pain medications felt ineffective.
  • Gilbert says she fled as the situation worsened, an ex-girlfriend cared for Elias in her final months, and Elias died on January 4, 2018, after achieving several weeks of sobriety; Gilbert now says she is in recovery.