Charlotte Church: 'New LP is pain fueled'

Charlotte Church has suggested that her "horrendous" split from longtime beau Gavin Henson inspired her LP Back To Scratch.

In an interview with The Daily Mail, the star admitted that she now considers the album's title track to be a personal anthem.

"Even if you're writing about someone else, you relate things to your own life," she said.

The singer added. "I wasn't aware of it at the time, but I was drawing on my own pain. That gave the song a bit of soul. It made the personal stuff a little less horrendous."

Church explained that she and Henson split for "really normal reasons", but added that intense press scrutiny of her love life often made it difficult to focus on her work.

She noted: "The timing could not have been worse... I wanted people to focus on my music, but things haven't turned out that way. I've become a soap star. It's not what I wanted, but I have to get on with it."

Church and Henson, who are the parents to three-year-old Ruby and one-year-old Dexter, decided to end their relationship this past spring after five years together.