Drew Barrymore is proof that dating can be spooky, even if you’re a celebrity.
The talk show host said on Monday’s show that she had recently been ghosted by a man she went on a date with.
Since she thought the date went well, Barrymore said she decided to follow up afterward.
“Since then, I texted him, and I was like, ‘Lovely to see you again the other night.’ We went back and forth twice, and then he ended with, ‘Haaaaa.’ And I haven’t heard anything,” she told her co-host Ross Mathews and guest Valerie Bertinelli, according to People.
Barrymore had no idea why her date suddenly went radio silent, but she hinted it wasn’t the first time she’s been ghosted.
“It just happens. I don’t know why,” she said. “I don’t know why. I would never do that. It doesn’t cross my mind to behave like that. Like, if you put a fishing pole in it, why are you not going to follow through?”
Barrymore said that a friend tried to make things better by asking, “Well, did he answer the ‘ha’ with one A?” When Barrymore responded, “No, it was like five or six A’s,” they insisted, “Oh no, that’s great.”
On Monday’s show, Mathews agreed: “As a man, it is slightly more encouraging that he was like, ‘Hahahahaha.’ That means the conversation’s going. It wasn’t, ‘Ha,’ period.”
But the 50-year-old Barrymore said she wasn’t interested in interpreting any cryptic responses.
“I’ll tell you what’s next: English. Like, just clear words,” Barrymore said. “I don’t wanna date in a way that if I get four A’s, I’m in. I don’t know what that means. It’s cryptic out there, so let’s just not indulge in people who waste our time. Those people are actually time-savers.”
Barrymore, a single mother of two kids, has dished about her dating woes many times on the show.
Last May, she admitted to going on a date with one guy and becoming convinced midway that “he was going to murder me.”
In June 2023, she told New York magazine that she was “curious to examine why I’m not open to a relationship.”
She added: “I really think I have some serious shit buried. And I don’t know if it’s like I need to try an MDMA treatment or psilocybin as a way to get to some state where I could see things in a different way.”
Barrymore has previously suggested her current romance woes are linked to a difficult 2016 divorce with ex-husband Will Kopelman. She told CBS Morning in January 2022 that she will “never, ever, ever, ever get married again.”