'Eat, Pray, Love' Fortune Teller Ketut Liyer Hospitalized

Elizabeth Gilbert and Ketut Liyer.

Something tells me he won't be at the premiere.

Julia Roberts may be sweating the opening of her new movie Eat, Pray, Love this weekend, but fortune teller Ketut Liyer is the one who's really suffering. The palm reader who Elizabeth Gilbert met in Bali in her book has been hospitalized because of heart problems.

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Liyer, 96, was admitted to the hospital for a heart ailment over the weekend. He also has prostate problems, for which he underwent surgery on Monday.

The health scare comes just days before the premiere of the film Eat, Pray, Love, which stars Julia Roberts as a woman who, after experiencing a painful divorce, embarks on a global journey of food, spirituality and personal discovery. In the memoir of the same name, Elizabeth Gilbert traveled to Bali where she had her palm read by Liyer.

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Since then the elderly fortune teller has become a celebrity. Eat, Pray, Love readers from all over the world have visited him on the Indonesian island, and he has been asked to appear in numerous advertisements and commercials.

"He is exhausted by all of this," said his granddaughter, Wayan Puspita Sari. "It may have affected his health."

Fourtunately, Liyer's doctor says the old man is making a strong recovery.

Eat, Pray, Love opens in theaters everywhere this weekend.

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