ANA: ‘FISHBOWL’ L.A. LIFE WITH BEN WAS ALL WET!

SCREEN stunner Ana de Armas says she bolted Tinseltown — and her romance with Ben Affleck — because “it was like living in a fishbowl.”

“I hated L.A.,” the Knives Out star told pals, adding: “My life was constantly under a microscope.” Cuba-born Ana, 34, and Ben, 49, hooked up at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic after co-starring in the mystery thriller Deep Water. But the scrutiny that came with dating the Hollywood heartthrob was so intense it drove her from the City of Angels.

“This is not the place for me to be,” she says she told herself.

“It became a little bit too much. There’s no escape. There’s no way out.”

She adds that L.A. made her “anxious” and there is “always the feeling of something that you don’t have, something missing.”

While Ben dove into an

Paul Boukadakis romance with Jennifer Lopez, Ana began dating

Although she now shares an apartment with Boukadakis in New York, she still flies in and out of Los Angeles for modeling and acting gigs.

However, a pal says: “Ana thinks L.A. is full of phonybaloneys and is always glad to get out again.”

The Knives Out beauty still heads west for gigs