As a general rule I really loathe romantic comedies and chick flicks. Which is why every time I see an ad for Eva Longoria’s new film “Over Her Dead Body” – in which she plays a dead woman who is trying to “sabotage her former boyfriend’s current relationship with a psychic” (according to the Internet Movie Database) – I want to find Eva Longoria and kick her in the ear. A lot. The movie’s oh-so-adorable tagline “Just because she’s passed on… Doesn’t mean she’s moving on” makes me physically ill. So I guess it’s really no surprise that the promotion for the film would be just as nauseating as the film itself (which, to be fair, I should note that I haven’t seen, but detest on principle). Eva’s been making the rounds telling some cute little story about how she really does believe in ghosts or the paranormal or whatever. I’m guessing it’s probably in answer to some reporter’s inane question about Eva’s real-life experience with the paranormal that everyone is supposed to think is clever.

Paging John Edward: Eva Longoria revealed Monday that she’s been contacted by the dead. In an interview with the U.K. talk show GMTV, the actress – currently starring in the supernatural romantic comedy Over Her Dead Body – confessed her own fascination with the paranormal world.

“I’ve had my cards read, and I’ve had my palm read, and I’ve had a psychic tell me things,” the Desperate Housewives, 32, star said. But the most shocking encounter involved a complete stranger. “A woman came up to me on the streets who I didn’t know, and said, ‘Your aunt’s spirit won’t leave me alone until I come to tell you that she’s here.’”

It’s a pretty good line – one Longoria said she might use to land a leading role alongside a certain Hollywood hunk. “I’d be like, ‘George Clooney! So this person is talking to me, I have this spirit [with me],’” she joked. “‘We have to talk. We have to do this movie together!’”

[From People]

Oh how remarkably adorable. I’m pretty sure if Eva Longoria were promoting a movie in which alien abductions happened through a portal in her character’s toilet bowl, we’d be hearing some cute little story about how “something weird back flushed up my toilet, now I really believe in bathroom-based alien abductions” shtick. I realize I’m grumpy today, but I’m pretty sure Eva Longoria is the cause of it. I find it so aggravating when people do these cutesy little fantasy romantic comedies, and then tell ridiculous anecdotes about how something similarly adorably crazy happened to them. Even on the chance some lady really did come up to Eva on the street to tell her about her dead aunt, the fact that Eva Longoria doesn’t know this random street ghost medium doesn’t mean squat. The crazy lady has likely seen Eva a time or two on the magic box that holds the tiny actors in her living room. I don’t think it’s a story about ghosts; it’s a story about people with mental issues. And that’s just not relevant to the movie.

Picture note by Jaybird: Here’s Eva at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday. Images thanks to PR Photos.