Ryan Adams 'Cleared By FBI' After Investigation Into Underage Sexts: Report

Ryan Adams has been cleared of allegations that he sent explicit messages to an underage fan following an FBI investigation, a report says.

The FBI cleared the Grammy nominee in 2019 after looking into a fan's claims that Adams had initiated sexually explicit communications with her when she was as young as 15, an unnamed source “with knowledge of the investigation” told Page Six.

“Ultimately, the FBI found no evidence that would support charging Ryan with a crime, and closed its investigation, without charges, in the fall of 2019,” the source said.

The fan, who used the pseudonym “Ava,” had detailed her exchange with Adams in a 2019 New York Times exposé, where she claimed that she was 14 when she first came into contact with the singer in 2013. She said they initially bonded over music, but the conversation allegedly soon turned inappropriate.

The publication reported finding “extensive communication” between Adams and the fan. This included direct messages on Twitter that allegedly began when Ava was 14. The New York Times also claimed to have reviewed over 3,217 text messages, which included explicit images, exchanged over the course of nine months until Ava was 16.

Ava also claimed that she and Adams had a video call over Skype, where he was allegedly nude, but they never met in person.

In the messages, Adams is said to have repeatedly asked Ava about her age, and she sometimes lied about it, claiming to be older than she actually was. Though the singer did not sound convinced, their communication continued.

“I would get in trouble if someone knew we talked like this,” Adams allegedly wrote to her in November 2014 when she was 16 and he was 40. He allegedly also sent her messages such as, “Show me you are 18” and “Do me a paranoid favor.”

Adams denied the allegations through his lawyer, Andrew Brettler, who stated at the time, “Mr. Adams unequivocally denies that he ever engaged in inappropriate online sexual communications with someone he knew was underage.”

The report included allegations made by multiple women of Adams allegedly luring them into having a romantic relationship with him by promising to help them with their career. Adams’ ex-wife, “This Is Us” star Mandy Moore, also accused him of being "destructive" and emotionally abusive throughout their six-year marriage.

Adams, through Brettler, called the accusations made in the report “extremely serious and outlandish” and said that he held no power to break or make careers.

The singer had also taken to Twitter to defend himself at the time. Though he apologized to “anyone I have ever hurt” and claimed that he is not perfect, he also said that the article paints an “upsettingly inaccurate” picture.

“Some of its details are misrepresented; some are exaggerated; some are outright false. I would never have inappropriate interactions with someone I thought was underage. Period,” wrote Adams.