'This is Us’ star credits God for move from LA to Nashville

"This is Us" star Chrissy Metz says she made a move to Nashville and started singing after someone she talked to in the industry said God asked him to speak to her.

"I am so happy here."  "I know as a kid, I had a hard time expressing my feelings, and I think our world would be a very different place if we treated the soil and every kid felt like they were heard and seen from a very early age, that they could name their feelings, they could then express them, feel validated in them."

She continued, "And he's like, ‘Do you want to write music? Do you sing? I don't even know that about you.’ And I'm like, ‘Yes, yes. Music was my first love.’ And he was like, ‘Well, I live in Nashville. If you want to come out to song-write, I'll set you up with meetings.’ I was like, ‘Are you joking? OK, thank you, God.’ And then I came out to start just songwriting with incredible songwriters."

The 44-year-old said she’s originally from Florida, "so, the South is very familiar to me," and during the coronavirus pandemic her family lived there for eight months.