Mandy Moore spills the beans about her string of famous exes

By Nick Bond

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7 Jun, 2018 06:09 AM5 mins to read

This Is Us actress Mandy Moore told Howard Stern all about her former beaus during an interview this week. Photo / Getty Images

Celebrity guests who appear on Howard Stern's radio show know by now that no topic is off limits, the shock jock happily prying into his guests' private lives.

This Is Us star Mandy Moore was more than happy to play along with Stern's line of questioning during her appearance on the show this week, giving refreshingly candid responses even as Stern pushed for details about her finances (she was happy to report she's paid the same as her male This Is Us co-stars).

Celeb watchers will be especially interested to know what Moore had to say about her string of high-profile partners, among them ex-husband Ryan Adams (who she said was "obsessed with himself"), tennis champ Andy Roddick (who "broke her heart") and current fiance, Dawes frontman Taylor Goldsmith.

Here's what she had to say:

WILMER VALDERRAMA

Stern brought up Valderrama's infamous appearance 2006 on his show — one in which he bragged he'd taken Moore's virginity, describing sex with her as "really good." Moore was happy to set the record straight: He did not.

"I dated him when I was 16-17, no. I love him and I still love him and he's a very good friend and that's why I was so shocked by it. Not only was it a fib, but it was so unlike him, it was so uncharacteristic. He's dated all the ladies. I met him at a photoshoot for some teen magazine when I was 15. I was [innocent], never French kissed a boy, he was my first true boyfriend.

She said she was hurt when she learned he'd publicly claimed he'd taken her virginity, and she called him for an explanation.

"[I asked] 'Where did this come from?' I remember in the moment he tried to explain it away; tried to say he insinuated it rather than outright said it. I was like 'No, you outright said it. Why would you ever talk about that with anybody? And lie about it?'"

"We don't talk about it now. I've moved past it now. This was, like, 2005," Moore said. "We're not that close, but we're friendly. We have some mutual friends so we'll see each other around. He came to my house a couple months ago — he's a good guy, he really is."

ANDY RODDICK

Moore dated tennis champ Roddick from 2002 to 2004, and "he broke my heart."

"I was a kid, he was a kid. I started dating him when I was 18. We met in Toronto, I was doing a movie and somehow he and another tennis buddy of his came to visit me on set. I met him that way," she said of their initial meeting.

"He broke my heart, so I think we parted ways because of that. It got poured into a record that eventually became an album that came out three to four years after that. It was that heartbreak, then dating Zach [Braff] and that heartbreak. It equals productivity."

She alluded to infidelity from some of her previous partners, telling Stern that "They get a wandering eye. It's human nature, part of the human condition. You're onto the next! It's OK, wasn't meant to be."

Moore said she hadn't talked to Roddick in "years."

"He's moved on, he's like married with kids and he seems super happy and I'm happy for him," she said. "We were kids. I don't care. 10 years ago, I would have had an axe to grind, but now I'm like, whatever."

ZACH BRAFF

Moore said she thought Scrubs star Braff, who she dated from 2004 until 2006, was the "guy for life."

"I did. You're like, this is it, I know who I am, what I want. I knew nothing, in reality."

She revealed the pair are still in touch.

RYAN ADAMS

Moore was married to country rocker Ryan Adams from 2009 to 2016, and was frank about what led to the breakdown of the relationship.

"It didn't sour my idea of romance or marriage or monogamy, I just chose the wrong person. We're just different, we were not meant to be. It was a very lonely life. Someone who's obsessed with themselves and obsessed with their work and wasn't able to be a partner or husband," she said.

"The anger has subsided now. I have so much distance from it now, I have a different perspective."

TAYLOR GOLDSMITH

Moore became engaged to the musician and frontman for band Dawes last year, after two years of dating. She says he "couldn't be more diametrically opposite" to ex-husband Adams.

"We went on our first date to this sushi restaurant, it was lovely. We had this epic three-hour-long dinner where we just didn't stop talking. Then he left to go on tour the next day, and we emailed and texted and Facetimed back and forth for six weeks until we could see each other again," she said.

"I started to absolutely fall in love with him just by communicating, which was the best. That foundation of getting to know each other and being friends first and having no chance to do anything physical."

She told Stern she earns a lot more than Goldsmith: "I understand that my job affords me a lifestyle that his job can't afford him, and it doesn't matter."