Beware the Ghost of Dennis Hopper

Hollywood haunting alert! In an interview with W Magazine, The Pitt’s Katherine LaNasa was asked whether she believed in ghosts and revealed that not only does she believe in them, but she has been haunted by the ghost of her ex, Dennis Hopper, ever since his death in 2010. Apparently, before Hopper’s soul can leave our earthly world, he must seek repentance with all five of his ex-wives. First up: LaNasa, who was briefly married to the actor/director in the ’90s.

“The ghost of Dennis Hopper would not leave me alone for a really long time,” she told W Magazine. “We had been divorced a very long time, but I was the last wife that he’d been with that he wasn’t currently divorcing. So, I think that level of intimacy when you’re dying is maybe only something you can do with a partner.” Hopper had five (!) marriages over the course of his life: his first with Brooke Hayward, then Michelle Phillips (but only for one week), then Daria Halprin, then LaNasa, then Victoria Duffy, whose divorce papers were pending at the time of his death. So while LaNasa was correct that she was his most recent ex-wife, Duffy would have been the most recent ex. Still, five ex-wives over the course of one’s lifetime is a lot, so it makes sense why his soul has been tethered to the mortal realm for so long. They’re all still with us, so I imagine his reckoning will take a while. Anyway, here’s LaNasa’s retelling of the hauntings:

“He visited me first in ways that were scary. He came one time where he was at the Academy Awards, and he was in like a wheelchair, and he fell down, and it was super upsetting. He used to come over me in like a sweat, and I told him he had to leave me alone, and then he did, and then I felt really weird about it.

And then the day that I told someone how weird I felt about it, I walked home an odd way and ran into a gallery that had all of his photographs up and a photograph of him in the very back of the gallery with a fedora on, winking at the camera. So I felt like he was letting me go. And then he came to me shortly after that in a dream. We were both in a cafeteria in Greece, and he told me that he was okay and that he wasn’t in pain anymore and he was good and I never heard from him again.”

Question: Does it count as a ghost haunting when it only happens in a dream? According to r/Paranormal, absolutely positively yes.

Happy to hear she is no longer haunted by her ex, unlike the rest of us. Now she can return to The Pitt without any spiritual debts, and Hopper can move on to reconciling with his other ex-wives, one strange fedora photo gallery haunting at a time.

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