United Kingdom, March 12 -- Simone Ashley has channelled her "heartbreak" into music.

The 'Bridgerton' actress, 29, is working on her debut album as she prepares to make her first assault on the charts - and the newly-single star has admitted she's been pouring her pain into her songs.

According to Richard Eden's Eden Confidential column for the Daily Mail newspaper, Simone said: "Sometimes I feel a song is storytelling and sometimes songs that were maybe written from a place of heartbreak end up being a dance cry banger.

"One of my songs has been influenced by heartbreak. There was one song that was written from a place of heartbreak.

"It was a really grey weekend when I was writing it, then when we went to the studio, the sun came o...