I'm going to give you a hug.
I'm going to go in for it.
Always go right in for it.
Today I'm talking to Elizabeth Gilbert.
She's got a new memoir out and it gets dark.
There were times when I was reading this where I put my book down and I was like, this is the Eat Pray Love lady?
Eat Pray Love, Julia Roberts played her in the movie.
What a beautiful word.
So today, Liz is here to tell me about how that woman,
a woman who thought she found enlightenment and inner peace, almost destroyed her own life.
Here's our conversation.
Elizabeth Gilbert, welcome to Modern Love.
Thank you.
I am so happy to be here.
We are so happy you're here in the studio with us.
So Liz, you are the author of the best selling 2006 memoir, Eat Pray Love.
This is all about your search for inner peace following a painful divorce.
You ended up marrying the guy you wrote about in Eat Pray Love
and writing a second book about this decision to commit to marriage again.
And now you have a new memoir out.