And Just Like That and Sex and the City star Kristin Davis is more than familiar with the real-life rollercoaster ride of modern dating.
During the Monday, January 20, episode of her podcast, “Are You a Charlotte?” Davis, 59, revealed that she once loaned an “out-of-work” actor $5,000 before he hastily ghosted her.
Davis, who portrayed Charlotte York on the hit HBO series Sex and the City before reprising the role for the 2021 reboot, told podcast guest Sarah Wynter — who appeared in the SATC pilot — that the man’s response to her generous gesture shocked her.
She detailed how the man was an “out-of-work actor” she’d been seeing before starting on SATC, who is now “very successful.” Davis had lent him “all of $5,000,” after spotting notices around his home that threatened to switch off his electricity. She’d also learned he had “wrecked his motorcycle” so he was unable to attend auditions.
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“He was very talented, but, at the time, I had money because I’d been working,” Davis explained. “It changed the dynamic in a horrible way … but I probably should have known better. So I lent him this money and then, you know, he stops calling. So I’m like, ‘What the heck?’”
Davis added that she confronted the man — which didn’t exactly help her situation.
“I remember going over to his apartment and banging on the door,” Davis said on the podcast. “And his dog was in there, and I loved his dog, and I could hear his dog. But I was like, ‘Is he in there and pretending that he is not in there?’”
While Davis wasn’t greeted at the door, she later received a phone call from the man, who asked her if she had been the person banging on his door.
“I was like, ‘Well, yes,’” Davis said. “I felt so embarrassed, like I was being messy. I just would love some acknowledgment or whatever, which is kind of a fantasy.”
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While she didn’t reveal the identity of the man, Davis did offer some details into what he could be up to these days. “He lives out in the country with some children, so I don’t think I want to show up there,” she quipped.
Reflecting on the ordeal further, Davis labelled her decision as a “horrible mistake” before urging her listeners to avoid repeating her actions. “Do not do it,” Davis said. “It doesn’t end well.”
Davis’ Charlotte has famously experienced her own fair share of eventful dating scenarios throughout six seasons of SATC, before it evolved into two seasons of AJLT. (The third season of AJLT is expected to premiere later this year after it was renewed in August 2023, and Charlotte remains married to Harry Goldenblatt, played by Evan Handler.)
In real-life, Davis is single and a mother to two adopted children: daughter, Gemma Rose, whom she adopted in 2011, and son, Wilson, whom she adopted in 2018.
