MANDY MOORE - LOVE SPLIT INSPIRED MOORE

Heartbreak inspired pop star MANDY MOORE as she sat down to write songs for her new album, WILD HOPE - she had just split from actor boyfriend ZACK BRAFF. The break-up was the latest in a line of celebrity romances gone wrong for the pretty singer, and she found writing about it a real tonic. She says, "It was therapeutic to sit down and really get out of my head and turn something really negative into something positive that I could stand up and be proud of. "I think I'm a stronger person than I give myself credit for, and that's definitely something I've learned not only from the songwriting process but from the songs themselves."