Billie Piper says 'questioning her mental health' has helped her work

Long before she was whizzing around the universe as Doctor Who's Rose Tyler or going off the rails on I Hate Suzie, Billie Piper was a bona fide, chart-topping popstar – and a record holder to boot.

Gallery: See the cast of Law & Order: SVU and their real-life partners (Hello!)The star's character is said to be a modern woman in a crisis who is also trying to raise her son, Larch )Toby Woolf) in the midst of a female revolution. Mandy is also seen mining the pain of her parents' separation when she falls upon a troubled man, Pete, who is searching for belonging and 'restored' male identity.

Chris Evans, 55, married Billie Piper in 2001 when he was 34 and she was 19. They split in 2004 and officially divorced in 2007, but the pair have remained very close friends, something the radio DJ admits "never gets less weird".

lockdown restrictions. And among the famous faces stepping out again were Billie Piper as she attended the Rare Beasts screening and Q&A at London's Genesis Cinema on Thursday.

Read more: Hockney at Royal Academy: I hate these paintings in my bonesFrom 90s teenage pop star, she burst onto the acting scene in the revival of Doctor Who, only to subvert that image with the more adult focused Secret Diary Of A Call Girl in the 2000s. Throw in her stage work, and the critically adored I Hate Suzie, it’s clear she’s a performer who always sought out the challenging route.

I Hate Suzie season two will begin this autumn.Piper, who created and starred in the hit Sky Atlantic drama, recently told NME of current plans to develop the second season about a singer-turned-actress whose private photos are leaked.“When [Sky Atlantic] talked about a second series, I think we both cried,” Piper said of her reaction alongside her co-writer on the show, Lucy Prebble.

American actor and fashion icon Billy Porter recently revealed that he has been living with HIV aids. In a candid essay for The Hollywood Reporter, Porter, 51, revealed that he was first diagnosed with the incurable virus back in 2007.

Happy Place podcast, the mother-of-three explained: 'I don’t know anyone who worked as hard as I did at 15. 'It was a combination of burnout, the trauma of becoming really famous, being disconnected with my family, a lack of control in my life – hence the eating disorder.

Gallery: Jada Pinkett Smith’s most astonishing revelations on Red Table Talk (BANG Showbiz)"When I got with Chris [Evans] I went around the world with him and felt loved. I stopped caring, and that was really integral to me healing and pursuing acting.