Mandy Moore says ex Ryan Adams didn’t reach out privately before his public apology for mistreating people

Mandy Moore said she has not received a private apology from her ex-husband, Ryan Adams, who recently admitted in an essay that he’s “mistreated people.”

“It’s challenging because in many ways I feel like I’ve said all I want to say about him and that situation, but I find it curious that someone would make a public apology but not do it privately,” Moore said Monday on the “Today” show.

Moore was one of several women who spoke out in a February 2019 report published by The New York Times about Adams’ alleged manipulative behavior.

Adams, a singer-songwriter, denied the allegations at the time, but apologized in an essay published last week by the Daily Mail, without addressing any specific accusation.

“I am speaking for myself but I have not heard from him,” Moore told host Hoda Kotb on Monday. “I’m not looking for an apology necessarily, but I do find it curious that someone would do an interview about it without actually making amends privately.”

Ryan Adams. (Frazer Harrison/)

Moore claimed in The New York Times’ report last year that Adams would lash out at her and wrote music with her that they never went on to record.

“He would always tell me, ‘You’re not a real musician, because you don’t play an instrument,’” Moore said at the time.

In his new essay, Adams said there are “no words to express how bad I feel about the ways I’ve mistreated people throughout my life and career.”

“All I can say is that I’m sorry,” Adams wrote. “It’s that simple. This period of isolation and reflection made me realize that I needed to make significant changes in my life.”