Mandy Moore Says She Put Up With Toxic Ex Because She Believed 1 Big Marriage Myth

The “Dr. Death” star reflected on her turbulent relationship with singer Ryan Adams.

Mandy Moore says when she looks back at her marriage to musician Ryan Adams, she doesn’t recognize herself.

On Tuesday’s episode of Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s podcast “Dinner’s on Me,” the “This Is Us” alum discussed her turbulent marriage to Adams and reflected on how her ideas about relationships have evolved.

“I think back to that chapter and it almost feels like it was someone else entirely that it happened to,” Moore told Ferguson of her marriage to the “When the Stars Go Blue” singer. The pair married in 2009 and split in 2015. Their divorce was finalized in 2016.

Moore told Ferguson she got married “very young” at the age of 24 — and that she decided to tie the knot with Adams at the same time her parents were ending their 30-year marriage.

Thanks to her naivete about relationships, she said, she believed that marriage was supposed to be hard.