She was teen America's bubble gum pop princess, but not everything stayed candy sweet for this star. However, with the stars new NBC show premiering this month, a new horror film and music on the way, Mandy Moore opens up about her tough few years which has seen her struggle personally and professionally. She's ready for her comeback.
Read On from RhapsodyThe Walk To Remember Star only just finalised her divorce to husband of six years Ryan Adams but said the split had to happen.
The star told the September issue of the magazine: 'It's not easy having to split up your life, and it still makes me really, really sad.
'For better or worse, I poured all of myself into my relationship. So it's nice that that chapter of my life has closed.
Mandy has since moved on with another musician Taylor Goldsmith, with whom she just celebrated a year with. Their union has once again ignited Mandy's passion for music - something which she had lost for some time.
'I miss music. For the last year or so, hanging out in this world again has ignited that part of my brain. Things finally feel like they're falling into place.*I'm not going to let anybody or anything hold me back anymore.'
And it seems like she may have a Taylor Swift-esque musical plan in mind, so Ryan should probably prepare himself.*
'I have soooo much to say and so much to write about,' the star told the magazine of her musical aspirations.
Mandy, of course, first burst into the world as a pop star in the late Nineties with song, Candy. The then-teen was presented to the world as the next Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera but, despite her once massive hits, her musical career did not quite take off as much as her contemporaries.
The star said it may have been because she was far less provocative: 'Maybe that was a conscious choice from the powers that be - that I was just going to be different than them. I'll never know. But I am kind of prudish and quiet, and I was never going to show my midriff.'
Mandy then went for teen singer to successful movie star but as the later 2010's wore on, the offers of movie roles just started to dry up.
Rejection, she told the magazine, started to become something she face regularly. But it was something she never got used to: *'It was soul-crushing.*I don't know how actors do this year in and year out. I feel like I have been treading water for a while.'
Her 'treading water' seems to have finally paid off, however, with the 32-year-old cast to star in new NBC series This Is Us. Mandy will be playing a new mother and described the role as 'transformative'.
The series was exactly what she needed, the star said: 'As soon as I read the script I was like, ''I have to be a part of this. This is something I would watch.''
