Katherine LaNasa, the 59-year-old star of HBO Max’s hospital drama "The Pitt," said in an interview with W magazine that she believes in ghosts and that the spirit of her ex-husband Dennis Hopper stayed with her for a long time. Hopper, an acclaimed actor and director, was married to LaNasa from 1989 to 1992 and died in 2010 at age 74 while divorcing his then-wife, Victoria Duffy.
LaNasa described the first encounter as a visit from a figure who looked as if he had just come from the Oscars. She said he later appeared again, this time sweaty, and she would ask him to leave her alone. According to LaNasa, the encounters eventually stopped. "Then I felt really weird about it," she said.
She added that the same day she told someone how strange it felt, she took an unusual route home and accidentally entered a gallery showing Hopper photographs. At the back, she saw an image of him in a fedora, winking at the camera. LaNasa took that as a sign that he was letting her go, though she said he later visited her again in a dream.
Asked why Hopper may have returned to her, LaNasa said, "I was the last woman he was with who was not going through a divorce from him at the same time." She suggested that such intimacy near death may be something shared only with a partner. LaNasa and Hopper had one son, Henry, now 35. She is now married to "Melrose Place" star Grant Show, and they have a 12-year-old daughter.
