India, June 26 -- Actor Esha Gupta has set the record straight on her rumoured romance with cricketer Hardik Pandya. She shared that there was a time when they were talking to each other, but it never translated into anything. Addressing the linkup rumours in a conversation with Siddharth Kannan on his YouTube show, the 39-year-old said, "Yeah, for some time we were talking. I don't think we were dating. We were at that 'maybe it will happen, maybe it won't' stage. It ended before we even reached the dating stage. So it wasn't dating-dating. We met once or twice; that's it. So yeah, as I said, it was a couple of months, and then it ended." When asked if a relationship was a possibility, Esha replied that "maybe it could have happened". However, timing and compatibility, she shared, did not quite match up. "There was no drama or bitterness. It just wasn't meant to be," she added. Interestingly, Esha had called out Hardik for certain "misogynistic" comments during a 2019 Koffee with Karan episode. "By then, I'd become thick-skinned. When the episode aired, [the backlash] didn't affect me," she said, reiterating that she was not in touch with Hardik when the controversy took place. htc...