Mandy Moore doesn’t hold a grudge, but she wants to clear the air: Wilmer Valderrama did not take her virginity — and she wishes he’d stop saying he did.
“I dated him when I was 16, 17, no [he didn’t take my virginity],” she said on “The Howard Stern Show” Wednesday. “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, so uncharacteristic. He’s dated all the ladies. I met him at a photoshoot for some teen magazine when I was 15 — never French kissed a boy — he was like my first true boyfriend.”
Moore, now 34, added that her parents, especially her father, were “bummed” by Valderrama’s locker room talk and that the “That ’70s Show” star tried to weasel his way out of taking accountability for his comments.
“I remember in the moment he tried to explain it away — that he did get caught up and maybe insinuated more than outright said it,” she recalled. “And I said, ‘No, you outright said it.’ I was like, ‘Why would you ever talk about that with anybody and lie about it?’ ”
Valderrama, 38, first made the uncouth claim on “The Howard Stern Show” in 2006, adding that while it “wasn’t like warm apple pie,” it was an enjoyable experience.
Still, despite humiliating Moore on the radio, she forgives him and says he’s a “good guy” and that they’re still friendly.
Moore also waxed poetic about ex Zach Braff, who she believed was the love of her life when they were together from 2004 to 2006. She also revealed that former tennis pro Andy Roddick, who romanced her from 2002 to 2004, broke her heart, but that she holds no ill will toward him.
“He’s moved on, he’s married [to Brooklyn Decker] 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 ax to grind, but now I’m like, ‘Whatever.’ ”
Moore also reflected on her divorce from Ryan Adams, who she was married to from 2009 to 2015, and with whom she fought with over spousal support and pets.
“[The divorce] didn’t sour my idea of romance or marriage or monogamy,” she said, adding that there was no infidelity during their marriage.
“I just chose the wrong person,” she explained. “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. The anger subsided for me now. I have so much distance from it now, I have a different perspective.”
Moore has good reason to be happy these days — the “This Is Us” star is happily engaged to musician Taylor Goldsmith of the band Dawes.