“I think grief is such a weird thing,” he says. I ask him if his relationship to that grief and to Kit’s memory has changed at all. It’s been five more years since then, and Ausiello has devoted much of that time to producing the film version of Spoiler Alert-which is to say, again telling Kit’s story. ‘Spoiler Alert’ Is Life-Affirming, Sob-Inducing Cinema. The book is helping me by giving me what I want. I think part of that is because the book hasn’t allowed me to let go. “I don’t know if I’ll have the answer to that question until I really accept that he’s gone and move on.” As his voice caught, he continued: “I’m not there yet. “It’s been two-and-a half years and I’m still not over him,” he said. Because the person never actually leaves you

Now, doing more press in support of the movie, he's having to talk about it all-and say goodbye-again.īut that’s the thing that both Ausiello’s book and this gorgeously faithful film adaptation makes so beautifully, emotionally clear: When you’ve had a love like Michael and Kit had, you don’t ever stop saying goodbye.

He watched as Parsons, acting as him, held Kit’s hand as he passed away in a tear-jerking hospital death scene. He said goodbye on a movie set, while watching Emmy-winner Jim Parsons play himself, and the platonic ideal of a perfect and talented man, Ben Aldridge, play Kit in the new movie Spoiler Alert, which expands to wide release this weekend. After a doctor gave Kit his prognosis, Ausiello had to film an on-camera conversation with Bell. He got the phone call that Kit might have cancer while on the set of The Americans waiting to interview Russell.

Ausiello is an entertainment journalist, who wrote for TV Guide and Entertainment Weekly before founding the website. He said goodbye again on the book’s press tour, speaking to writers like me, to his friends, and to celebrities who are mentioned in it, like Kristen Bell and Keri Russell. He said goodbye to him in his book, Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies, about meeting and falling in love with Kit and caring for him at the end of his life, which he wrote while still in the grieving process. He has been saying goodbye to him-grieving him, remembering him, celebrating him-almost constantly since.

Seven-and-a-half years ago, Michael Ausiello said goodbye to his husband, Kit Cowan, who died of cancer.

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