Editing Ryan Adams (section)

== Personal life ==

===Relationships and health===
Adams was engaged to singer-songwriter [[Leona Naess]], but the engagement ended in 2003.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=1540|title=Leona Naess Review|last=Udovitch|first=Mim|date=2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930190235/http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=1540|archive-date=September 30, 2007|url-status=dead|access-date=June 16, 2022|magazine=[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]}}</ref> From 2003 to 2005 Adams dated actress [[Parker Posey]]. In 2008, Adams began dating singer-songwriter and actress [[Mandy Moore]]. They became engaged in February 2009 and they were married on March 10, 2009, in Savannah, Georgia.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Oh |first=Eunice |url=https://people.com/celebrity/mandy-moore-and-ryan-adams-get-married/ |title=Mandy Moore and Ryan Adams Get Married! – Weddings, Mandy Moore, Ryan Adams |magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]]|date=March 11, 2009 |access-date=January 10, 2011}}</ref> On January 23, 2015, Adams and Moore announced in a joint statement that they were separating.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Kreps |first=Daniel |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ryan-adams-mandy-moore-end-marriage-divorce-20150124 |title=Ryan Adams and Mandy Moore Ending Their Marriage |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=January 24, 2015 |access-date=September 19, 2015}}</ref> The divorce was finalized in June 2016.<ref>{{cite news|title=Mandy Moore and Ryan Adams finalise divorce|url=http://www.new-magazine.co.uk/news/view/81245/Mandy-Moore-and-Ryan-Adams-finalise-divorce/|date=June 23, 2016|work=New! Magazine|access-date=June 24, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160804162319/http://www.new-magazine.co.uk/news/view/81245/Mandy-Moore-and-Ryan-Adams-finalise-divorce|archive-date=August 4, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2007, Adams stated that he doesn't drink or take drugs.<ref>{{cite news|last=Klein|first=Joshua|title=Ryan Adams|work=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|date=July 23, 2007|url=https://pitchfork.com/features/interview/7415-ryan-adams/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170729063437/http://pitchfork.com/features/interview/7415-ryan-adams/|archive-date=July 29, 2017}}</ref> He revealed that he had endured "an extended period of substance abuse" that ended in 2006. He indicated that he routinely snorted [[Speedball (drug)|heroin mixed with cocaine]], and abused alcohol and [[Tablet (pharmacy)|pills]]. He beat his addiction with the assistance of his girlfriend at the time, Jessica Joffe, using [[Diazepam|Valium]] therapy and occasionally attending [[Twelve-step program|twelve-step]] meetings.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/17/arts/music/17decu.html|title=Ryan Adams Didn't Die. Now the Work Begins.|last=DeCurtis|first=Anthony|date=June 17, 2007|access-date=June 18, 2007|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> In the following years, he made several statements indicating he was "newly sober"<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://variety.com/2022/music/news/ryan-adams-new-team-concerts-move-past-allegations-1235284292/|title=Can Ryan Adams Be a Rock Star Again? With a New Team and Return to Concerts, Singer Looks to Move Past Sexual Misconduct Allegations|last=Willman|first=Chris|date=June 3, 2022|access-date=June 16, 2022|magazine=[[Variety (website)|Variety]]|publisher=[[Penske Media Corporation]]|quote=Adams recently posted that he was hitting his nine-months-sober mark. This is not the first such time he's made that kind of claim: In 2020, [...] he said he was newly sober then, too. Adams fans don't get a clearcut sense of when he's sober or when he's not[.]}}</ref> and he told [[TMZ]] in June 2022 that he had reached nine months of sobriety.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tmz.com/2022/06/16/ryan-adams-9-months-sober-cancel-culture-comeback/|title=Ryan Adams: I'm 9 Months Sober And Really, Really Sore!!!|author=<!-- No by-line -->|date=June 16, 2022|access-date=June 16, 2022|website=[[TMZ]]}}</ref> He celebrated one year of sobriety with the free release of his album ''Devolver'' on September 23, 2022.<ref name="DevolverSobriety"/>

Adams has [[Ménière's disease]] and [[tinnitus]]. A flyer advising of Adams' condition is affixed to the first several rows of seats at his concerts, with the admonition for audience members to refrain from taking flash photos or using [[autofocus]] assist beams when photographing at his shows.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.stereogum.com/1720422/watch-ryan-adams-berate-a-fan-after-her-camera-flash-triggers-menieres-episode/video/|title=Watch Ryan Adams Berate A Fan After Her Camera Flash Triggers Ménière's Episode|publisher=[[Stereogum]]|date=November 20, 2014|access-date=September 19, 2015}}</ref> Adams has also openly spoken about experiencing [[depression (mood)|depression]] and [[anxiety]].<ref name="LAMAG">{{cite news|last=Appleford|first=Steve|date=August 9, 2021|title= Exclusive: Ryan Adams: 'I Felt Like They Were Asking Me to Die'|url= https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/ryan-adams/|work=[[Los Angeles Magazine]]|access-date=August 9, 2021}}</ref>

===Disputes with fans and other artists===
At a concert in October 2002, at Nashville's [[Ryman Auditorium]], someone in the audience yelled out a request for "[[Summer of '69]]", a song by the similarly named [[Bryan Adams]]. Adams reacted with a stream of expletives, and ordered the house lights turned on, ''[[The Tennessean]]'' newspaper reported. He eventually found the fan who made the joke-request, paid him $30 cash as a refund for the show, ordered him to leave, and said he would not play another note until he had left.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/73812/ryan-adams-not-amused-by-name-game |title=Ryan Adams Not Amused by Name Game |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|access-date=September 19, 2015}}</ref> In a 2014 interview, Ryan Adams denied that the audience-member was asked to leave "for screaming a Bryan Adams song", but rather because the man was drunk: "The reason why the guy was asked to leave by me was because I was doing an a-capella three-piece with [[Gillian Welch]], [[David Rawlings]], and myself of '[[Heartbreaker (Ryan Adams album)|Bartering Lines]]', and in between the quiet parts the guy was screaming."<ref>{{cite web|last=Gabler|first=Jay|url=http://blog.thecurrent.org/2014/10/ryan-adams-clarifies-bryan-adams-stories-says-album-cover-similarity-is-coincidental/|title=Ryan Adams clarifies Bryan Adams stories, says album cover similarity is coincidental &#124; Local Current Blog &#124; The Current from Minnesota Public Radio|website=Blog.thecurrent.org|date=October 17, 2014|access-date=February 23, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.stereogum.com/9145/rumors_about_ryan_adamss_dating_life_summer_of_69d/news/ |title=Rumors about Ryan Adams's Dating-Life, "Summer of '69"-Dude Ejection gave been greatly exaggerated |publisher=[[Stereogum]] |date=April 16, 2008 |access-date=February 23, 2017}}</ref> In April 2015, Ryan Adams, who had since become friends with Bryan Adams, played "Summer of '69" at the end of another performance at the Ryman in Nashville, an act described by ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' as "an olive branch to the city that was once his home".<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/watch-ryan-adams-redemptive-cover-of-summer-of-69-20150429|title=Watch Ryan Adams' Redemptive Cover of 'Summer of '69{{'-}}|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|last=Leahey|first=Andrew|date=April 29, 2015|access-date=April 30, 2015}}</ref>

Adams left an angry message on critic [[Jim DeRogatis]]'s answering-machine, in response to a scathing review DeRogatis gave of an Adams show in 2003.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/sep/22/ryan-adams-things-got-broken|title=Ryan Adams: 'Things got broken and I couldn't fix them'|last=Simpson|first=Dave|date=September 22, 2011|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=June 22, 2014}}</ref>

During filming of the BBC's long-running show ''Songwriter's Circle'', where Adams was joined by American folk-singer [[Janis Ian]] and New Zealand's [[Neil Finn]], it was reported that he refused to participate in a number of the songs performed on the night and was generally dismissive of collaborating with the others. The fallout from the show resulted in an online to-and-from argument between Adams, Ian, and members of the public, who cited Adams's rude behavior and eccentric demeanor toward his colleagues.<ref>{{cite news|last=Teague|first=Marcus|url=http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/ryan-adams-and-neil-finn-fall-out-during-tv-taping-20111026-1mjld.html#ixzz1byKKybKb|title=Ryan Adams and Neil Finn fall out during TV taping|newspaper=[[The Age]]|date=October 26, 2011|access-date=October 27, 2011}}</ref> In August 2017, Adams singled out [[Father John Misty]] for criticism,<ref>{{Cite news|first=Taylor|last=Berman|url=http://www.spin.com/2017/08/ryan-adams-father-john-misty-insults-twitter/|title=Ryan Adams Calls Father John Misty the "Most Self-Important Asshole on Earth"|date=August 19, 2017|work=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|access-date=August 20, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|first=Tom|last=Breihan|url=https://www.stereogum.com/1958228/ryan-adams-calls-father-john-misty-the-the-most-self-important-asshole-on-earth/news/|title=Ryan Adams Calls Father John Misty "The Most Self-Important Asshole On Earth"|date=August 19, 2017|work=[[Stereogum]]|access-date=August 20, 2017}}</ref> while a month earlier he made derogatory remarks about [[the Strokes]] through social media.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.stereogum.com/1955071/ryan-adams-is-roasting-the-strokes-on-twitter-for-some-reason/wheres-the-beef/|title=Ryan Adams Is Roasting The Strokes On Twitter|date=July 31, 2017|work=[[Stereogum]]|access-date=August 20, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|first=Evan|last=Minsker|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/ryan-adams-does-not-like-the-strokes-blasts-them-on-twitter/|title=Ryan Adams does not like The Strokes, blasts them on Twitter|website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|publisher=[[Condé Nast]]|location=Chicago, Illinois|date=July 31, 2017|language=en|access-date=August 20, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|first=Daniel|last=Kreps|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ryan-adams-rips-the-strokes-in-twitter-rant-w495244|title=Ryan Adams Rips the Strokes in Twitter Rant|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|publisher=Wenner Media LLC|location=New York City|date=August 1, 2017|access-date=August 20, 2017}}</ref>

===Harassment allegations===
On February 13, 2019, ''[[The New York Times]]'' reported that seven women (including [[Phoebe Bridgers]] and ex-wife [[Mandy Moore]]) said Adams offered to assist them with their music careers, then pursued the women romantically. They also claimed that Adams retaliated when they spurned his advances, hindering their careers and harassing them in text messages and on social media.<ref>{{cite news|first1=Joe|last1=Coscarelli|first2=Melena|last2=Ryzik|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/arts/music/ryan-adams-women-sex.html|title=Ryan Adams Dangled Success. Women Say They Paid a Price.|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=February 13, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|first=Scott|last=Russell|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/02/ryan-adams-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-emotional.html|title=Ryan Adams Accused of Sexting a Minor, Emotionally Abusing Multiple Women|magazine=[[Paste (magazine)|Paste]]|date=February 13, 2019|access-date=February 13, 2019}}</ref> The accusations surfaced in the context of the [[MeToo movement|#MeToo movement]] against [[sexual harassment]]. Adams initially denied the accusations but in July 2020, he issued a statement in the ''[[Daily Mail]]'' apologizing for his actions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/ryan-adams-accused-of-abuse-by-phoebe-bridgers-mandy-moore-underage-fan-more-adams-denies-it/|title=Ryan Adams Accused of Abuse by Phoebe Bridgers, Mandy Moore, Underage Fan, More; Adams Denies It|website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|first=Noah|last=Yoo|language=en|date=February 13, 2019|access-date=February 13, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Aswad|first=Jem|date=July 4, 2020|title=Ryan Adams Issues Long Statement Apologizing for Past Sexual Misconduct|url=https://variety.com/2020/music/news/ryan-adams-apologizes-sexual-misconduct-statement-1234698318/|access-date=January 14, 2021|website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=July 6, 2020|first=Mark|last=Savage|title=Ryan Adams apologises for 'mistreating' women|language=en-GB|work=[[BBC News]]|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-53306131|access-date=January 14, 2021}}</ref>