Mandy Moore is sharing her strange experience giving birth while her doctor was otherwise preoccupied.
In a recent episode of her This Was Us podcast with co-hosts Sterling K. Brown and Chris Sullivan, the 42-year-old actress and singer said, “I remember directly looking at him, and he was on his phone, scrolling, like, on CNN.com.”
“I’ll never forget,” Moore added in a clip shared by Access Hollywood. “I was like, ‘Am I bothering you?'”
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The This Is Us alum continued: “And then I remember distinctively, another time during labor, I’m like, in between contractions, and he’s like, ‘You know, they have a lobster truck outside today.’ And the midwife was like, ‘Oh, really?’ And he’s like, ‘Yea, I mean — This is taking a really long time. I don’t think I’m gonna be able to get one.’ ”
“It’s very me, to be like, ‘I’m so sorry,’ ” Moore added. “Like, I just — I felt bad, like I was wasting his time.”
In response, Brown, 50, offered, “This feels like an apt time to say it: Men, what’s up?”
The trio announced they were launching a This Is Us rewatch podcast back in May, with Moore — who starred as matriarch Rebecca Pearson — saying in a clip shared on Instagram: “It feels so good to be back in the wagoneer.”
This Is Us aired on NBC from Sept. 2016 to May 2022. The family drama centered on the lives of siblings Kevin (Justin Hartley), Kate (Chrissy Metz) and Randall (Brown) and their parents Rebecca (Moore) and Jack (Milo Ventimiglia). The series used multiple timelines, showing stories that took place in the present as well as flashbacks to the siblings’ childhood and flash-forwards to later years.
The NBC drama earned numerous accolades throughout its run. It received 39 Emmy nominations, winning four. It also received the Television Academy Honors Award in 2017.
Moore and her husband, Taylor Goldsmith, married in 2018 and became parents in February 2021 when they welcomed their first child, son August “Gus” Harrison. In October 2022, Gus became a big brother when Moore and Goldsmith welcomed their second son, Oscar “Ozzie” Bennett. They became a family of five in September 2024 when Moore and Goldsmith welcomed their third child, daughter Louise “Lou” Everett.