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She said she felt she often put Adams before herself, stating that Adams \"made me feel worthy, it made me feel like I had value if I could be there for somebody else and serve their needs.”

\"I think it -- not to go down a rabbit hole with, like, therapy -- but I think it goes back to feeling undeserving of what I've had in my life as a young person and finding success,\" she continued.

\"I think there was part of me that was like, 'Well, this part of my life, I'm OK to not live for myself right now. I've had enough of that,'\" she added.

Moore said that she came from a difficult family situation and she hoped to bring stability to her own marriage and family life.

\"I think my co-dependency fed into his co-dependency and some other underlying issues that it was the perfect cacophony of madness,\" she said. \"I was so not serving myself.\"

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She also opened up about how unhealthy she felt their home life was.

\"I would try to fight back, but I hate confrontation,\" she said about their breakup. \"It just was a lot of endless conversations, conversations in a loop, crying, all of that for months and months and months.\"

Moore is one of the many women interviewed for The New York Times piece who spoke out about Adams' alleged inappropriate behavior.

\"He would always tell me, 'You’re not a real musician, because you don’t play an instrument,'\" Moore told The New York Times.

\"His controlling behavior essentially did block my ability to make new connections in the industry during a very pivotal and potentially lucrative time -- my entire mid-to-late 20s,” she added.

Adams is also accused of knowingly exposing himself and having inappropriate conversations with an underage woman, along with having a \"pattern of manipulative behavior\" towards many female artists.

The FBI is reportedly looking into Adams communication with the underage women after the release of the report, according to The New York Times.

ABC News has reached out to representatives of Ryan Adams and will update if we hear back.

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