Ashley Cooke tells Evie magazine why she rejects the 'screw all men' narrative, discusses her Matt Rife kiss, Noah Cyrus friendship and fears about motherhood.
- November 11, 2026
AceShowbiz - Ashley Cooke is getting candid about modern feminism, her Hollywood upbringing and her fears about motherhood in a new interview with Evie magazine.
In the wide-ranging profile, the 29-year-old country singer reveals why she rejects the "screw all men" narrative, dishes on her first on-camera make-out session with comedian Matt Rife, recalls singing with Noah Cyrus at their school graduation and gets candid about her desire to become a mother.
"The narrative of 'screw all men' is something that I don't really feel or align with," Cooke tells Evie.
Interviewed by former Playboy writer and model Taylor Ferber, who has become a firebrand in women's media, Cooke also reveals her obsession with conspiracy theories, especially the moon landing.
"Why haven't we gone back?" Cooke asks. "Do I think that we've gone to the moon? Yes. Do I think we went when we said we went? No. That's my hot take."
As a kid in Los Angeles, Cooke ran in the same circles as Disney kids, spent time on the Hannah Montana set and grew up with the Cyrus family. She was closest to Noah, and the two even sang Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown's No Air at a school graduation.
"We've talked a few times about maybe doing something together," Cooke says. "Let's run it back. Let's do another one."
If she's being honest, she and her sister, who sang together as a duo, still wonder what would've happened if they were in L.A. a little longer. Maybe even just for one more audition.
"Who knows, maybe we would've been on the Miley or the Demi trajectory in a different way," she reflects, admitting she feels a little FOMO thinking about it. "You never know who I would've been if I would've stayed there."
Cooke also opened up about the slow-burn romantic moment in her baby blues music video, which was directed by Josh Erb.
"Matt, put her up on the counter and go really close to kissing her, but not quite yet," Cooke recalls Erb saying. Cooke wanted to build "this kind of will-they, won't-they moment."
Cooke loves romance novels and "men written by women," and she knew exactly how she wanted this to go down. She'd already serenaded Rife at CMA Fest, where they hit it off and became friends with what she describes as a "kind of magnetic, just electric" chemistry. When she cast the video, she asked herself, "Who would be somebody that people would be so excited to see me with, but also somebody that I would feel comfortable with?"
Cooke says she wants children someday and also knows she wants more time for the career she's spent years building.
"I don't think I'm ready for that yet, and I just have things that I want to do before I dive so deep into motherhood," she says. What really gets her is that pesky ticking clock, and watching her parents get older, go gray and move a little slower.
"It does weigh on me that I feel like I'm running out of time with my parents on the back end of it, and it's getting further and further away from them really getting to know my kids, but that's something we all have to live with."