{"id":785,"date":"2026-08-05T15:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/2026\/08\/05\/molly-ringwald-calls-secret-life-of-the-american-teenager-her-worst-experience-because-one-person-was-really-difficult\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T15:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:20:10","slug":"molly-ringwald-calls-secret-life-of-the-american-teenager-her-worst-experience-because-one-person-was-really-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/2026\/08\/05\/molly-ringwald-calls-secret-life-of-the-american-teenager-her-worst-experience-because-one-person-was-really-difficult\/","title":{"rendered":"Molly Ringwald Calls \u201cSecret Life of the American Teenager\u201d Her \u2018Worst\u2019 Experience Because One Person Was \u2018Really Difficult\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The actress clarified that she was \u201cnot going to say who that one person is\u201d during her appearance on \u2018Watch What Happens Live\u2019<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/1dKMFcXDqxE64QESfRAEnvgW5ho=\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(jpeg)\/molly-ringwald-secret-life-of-the-american-teenage-080526-96500de962374f0cabb81719c74c28a0.jpg\" alt=\"Molly Ringwald on \u2018The Secret Life of the American Teenager\u2019; \u2018Watch What Happens Live\u2019Credit: Randy Holmes\/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty; Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen\/YouTube\" title=\"THE SECRET LIFE OF THE AMERICAN TEENAGER -  MOLLY RINGWALD\" \/><figcaption><i>Molly Ringwald on \u2018The Secret Life of the American Teenager\u2019; \u2018Watch What Happens Live\u2019<br \/>Credit: Randy Holmes\/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty; Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen\/YouTube<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Molly Ringwald reflected on her time filming <em>The Secret Life of the American Teenager<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The actress, who starred as Anne Juergens in the ABC Family series, rated the experience a 1 out of 10 during her appearance on <em>Watch What Happens Live<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201cThere was one person that was really difficult,\u201d she said<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/molly-ringwald\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Molly Ringwald<\/a> said she \u201cloved\u201d the cast of <em>The Secret Life of the American Teenager<\/em>, but there was \u201cone person\u201d who was \u201creally difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The actress, 58, appeared on the Tuesday, Aug. 4 episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UuOrhEmGsCY\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\"><em>Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen<\/em><\/a> and participated in a game of \u201cSpill the IMDb Tea,\u201d during which she rated a few of her high-profile roles based on her experiences on set.<\/p>\n<p>After going through films including <em>Not Another Teen Movie<\/em>, <em>Jem and the Holograms<\/em> and <em>Pretty in Pink<\/em>, Ringwald was faced with rating her experience on <em>The Secret Life of the American Teenager<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat would be, the worst is 1?\u201d Ringwald asked of the rating system. \u201cOkay, that was it. The worst.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After gasps from the Bravo audience, and a \u201cwow\u201d from host <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/andy-cohen\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Andy Cohen<\/a>, Ringwald explained her reasoning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a hard&#8230; okay. I loved the cast. I loved <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/shailene-woodley\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Shailene [Woodley]<\/a>, there\u2019s so many people that I worked with that&#8230; there was one person that was really difficult,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/e-x-MacXeorIzGxDKH2dvjyJfvI=\/fit-in\/1280x960\/molly-ringwald-secret-life-of-the-american-teenage-080526-1-9f5ce00dd5554655acb2446e3cb9e668.jpg\" alt=\"Molly Ringwald on \u2018The Secret Life of the American Teenager\u2019Credit: Randy Holmes\/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty\" title=\"THE SECRET LIFE OF THE AMERICAN TEENAGER - MOLLY RINGWALD\" \/><figcaption><i>Molly Ringwald on \u2018The Secret Life of the American Teenager\u2019<br \/>Credit: Randy Holmes\/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ultimately, Ringwald clarified that she was \u201cnot going to say who that one person is,\u201d but they \u201cbrought it down to a 1\u201d on Cohen\u2019s rating scale.<\/p>\n<p>Ringwald, who recently made her stage return in off-Broadway\u2019s <em>Are You\u00a0Now or Have You\u00a0Ever Been, <\/em>starred as Anne Juergens, the mother of Woodley\u2019s Amy Juergens, in the ABC Family teen drama from 2008 to 2013. It followed the story of Amy, a high school student who became pregnant at age 15 and had to navigate various familial and life changes.<\/p>\n<p>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\">PEOPLE\u2019s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/p>\n<p>Ringwald and Woodley starred alongside Ken Baumann, Mark Derwin, Megan Park, India Eisley, <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/francia-raisa\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Francia Raisa<\/a> and others. The series ended in June 2013 after five seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Woodley, who praised Ringwald during a 2024 reunion as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/shailene-woodley-reunites-with-secret-life-of-the-american-teenager-mom-molly-ringwald-8754945\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">the queen who grew me up<\/a>,\u201d revealed in an October 2024 edition of <em>Vanity Fair<\/em>\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uV79HH7Qtok\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\" rel=\"noopener\">Scene Selection<\/a>\u201d that she was not familiar with Ringwald\u2019s work going into the series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got to know her as just this, like, <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/shailene-woodley-had-no-idea-who-molly-ringwald-was-on-secret-life-of-the-american-teenager-had-never-seen-any-of-her-films-8737813\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">beautiful older sister, motherly figure to me<\/a>, who was really protective of honoring, like, my authenticity as a young person and who I was and just being, like, a kiddo playing a kiddo,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe protected me in that way,\u201d Woodley added, \u201cand I\u2019m so thankful for that because there is a pressure for people to grow up very quickly, especially when it comes to Hollywood.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The actress clarified that she was \u201cnot going to say who that one person is\u201d during her appearance on \u2018Watch What Happens Live\u2019 Molly Ringwald on \u2018The Secret Life of the American Teenager\u2019; \u2018Watch What Happens Live\u2019Credit: Randy Holmes\/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty; Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen\/YouTube NEED TO KNOW Molly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else"],"wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","cvmm-medium":"","cvmm-medium-plus":"","cvmm-portrait":"","cvmm-medium-square":"","cvmm-large":"","cvmm-small":"","full":""},"categories_names":{"1":{"name":"Everything Else","link":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/category\/everything-else\/"}},"tags_names":[],"comments_number":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}