Can I close ActionMenu from code?

I open an ActionMenu:

$.menu = new ExitActionMenuView();
WatchUi.showActionMenu($.menu, new ExitActionMenuDelegate());

And when the user takes an action (touch or start or back) then it closes and I do what I need to do.

But there are scenarios when after I opened it I need to close it (let's call it "time out") from code.

On older devices where I used Menu or Menu2 I could pop the view, but ActionMenu is not a View, so neither popView nor switchView to my main view doesn't make the ActionMenu disappear.

Any idea how can I make it disappear (except for not using ActionMenu:) ?