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Topics: Celebrity, Film and TV, Sex and Relationships, Ana de Armas
Joe Harker
Topics: Celebrity, Film and TV, Sex and Relationships, Ana de Armas
Ana de Armas revealed that she'd been ghosted before as she was promoting her new movie Ghosted alongside Chris Evans.
For those who need a refresher on what 'ghosting' is, it's a dating trend where one person just suddenly cuts off all contact and practically disappears.
One minute they're noncommittally answering 'haha yeah lol' to a relatively unfunny text you sent and the next it's like they never existed at all.
The signs that they weren't particularly interested might have been there but the abrupt cutting of contact and inability to ever see them again is what really makes something ghosting.
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No response, no acknowledgement and nothing to indicate that they even exist any more, hence the name of the dating trend.
It can be quite psychologically damaging to have someone you were interested in just ditch you and disappear without warning or explanation and it even happens to famous people too.
Among those who have been on the receiving end of ghosting is Ana de Armas, who was asked about it while promoting the movie Ghosted and revealed that even she wasn't immune to it.
When asked if she'd ever ghosted someone or been ghosted, she said: "I have, and I have. I wasn't always looking like this. It's been a lot of years in-between."
This revelation came as something of a shock to those who saw the interview, who were perplexed at the idea that someone would be daft enough to ghost someone like Ana de Armas.
People were very confused as to 'how could someone ghost Ana de Armas' and reckoned that the men who'd done that must be kicking themselves right about now.
Others were desperate to know exactly 'who ghosted her', while a few wondered if perhaps the showbiz lifestyle made it difficult to stay with someone regardless of how good they looked.
Her co-star Chris Evans was adamant that he hadn't ever ghosted anyone, though de Armas revealed she doesn't really believe that.
Evans said he'd 'rather be ghosted' as you could just assume 'they maybe changed their number' and tell yourself there was a breakdown in communication.
The Marvel star said that at least with ghosting there was some 'ambiguity' and it was better than the 'slow tortured drip' of a person just slowly fading from your life.
He said it was 'much worse when the person just texts you less and less' as it meant 'they want nothing to do with me and there's no mistaking it'.
Apparently this is called 'Caspering', so named after the Casper the Friendly Ghost titular character and it's supposed to be a more friendly type of ghosting where you steadily fade away instead of dropping off the face of the Earth entirely.