Drew Barrymore Says She Got Ghosted After a Recent First Date: Let's 'Not Indulge in People Who Waste Our Time'

• Drew Barrymore recalled being ghosted after a recent first date while speaking to the audience on her talk show
• After she and the man "went back and forth twice" via text after the date, "I haven't heard anything," she said
• "It does happen to all of us — the best of us. Good people who wouldn't treat other people like that," Barrymore added

Drew Barrymore is sharing her experience of being ghosted after a recent first date.

During a conversation with co-host Ross Mathews and Valerie Bertinelli on the Monday, March 24 episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, the actress said she went out to dinner with a man earlier this month after he asked for her phone number.

However, she said, "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."

"It just happens. I don't know why," continued the 50 First Dates star. "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, 50, told the audience that she knows the ghosting experience is not unique to her: "It does happen to all of us — the best of us. Good people who wouldn't treat other people like that."

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"Today, my friend said, 'Well, did he answer the 'ha' with one A?' ... And I was like, 'No, it was like five or six A's.' And they were like, 'Oh no, that's great.' "

"I do have to say, as a man ... it is slightly more encouraging that he was like, 'Hahahahaha.' That means the conversation's going. It wasn't 'Ha,' period," said Mathews, 45.

"I'll tell you what's next: English. Like, just clear words," Barrymore joked. "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."

The host also mused about the "critical place" people can sometimes go to, when they ask what's "wrong" with themselves: "It could be a look in the mirror to yourself. It could be when you said something ridiculous, which I do all the time."

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"And my God, if there's one thing that the wisdom of my life is giving to me now at 50 years old, it's to be a little ... a lot kinder to ourselves," she continued. "You deserve nothing less than goodness."

The Wedding Singer star has been open about her dating life and family dynamic since her split from ex-husband Will Kopelman, with whom she shares daughters Olive, 12, and Frankie, 10.

On her show last week, Barrymore spoke with Frank Zappa's daughter Moon Unit Zappa about her new book, which centers on becoming a parent without a roadmap — something the actress can relate to as she raises her daughters with Kopelman, 46.

"Everything to me was very devastating and took me a long time to recover from if it wasn't in the traditional family dynamic that I swore I would do for my family because I did not grow up that way," she said, in part.