Adele Just Got Super Candid About Her Divorce: ‘I Was Embarrassed’
Adele did not go easy on herself when she got divorced.
The singer, who announced her divorce from Simon Konecki in 2019, got very candid about it in an interview with Rolling Stone published on Thursday, November 11.
“Easy On Me,” the first single from Adele’s fourth studio album 30, out November 19, expressed her feelings about the end of the almost decade-long relationship. When the news of Adele’s divorce came out, the internet was flooded with memes and tweets about how devastating her next album would be because of it. “During something like that, that kind of significant thing to happen in life, your mind sort of goes to those places,” Adele told Rolling Stone. “‘Why don’t they like me? Why would they write that if they’ve followed me for 10 years?’ But in reality, that’s not their responsibility. In reality, their responsibility as a fan is to want a good record and to hope I deliver. So I took it with a pinch of salt, and it was fine.”
Adele also recalled to Rolling Stone how she felt about her marriage ending in the public eye. “It made me really sad,” Adele said. “Then having so many people that I don’t know know that I didn’t make that work…it fucking devastated me. I was embarrassed. No one made me feel embarrassed, but you feel like you didn’t do a good job.”
In the interview Adele also opened up about other things, including the fact that 30 is coming out during a pandemic. It was originally supposed to debut last fall. “No one wants to remember this period of time,” Adele said. “Obviously, it’s way better than last year, but the day my album comes out, someone’s loved one will have died from COVID. For them, it’s going to be a reminder every time they hear ‘Easy on Me’ on the radio.”
As of summer 2021, Adele has been dating sports agent Rich Paul. They made it Instagram official in September. She told Rolling Stone that her relationship with Paul is the most “incredible, openhearted, and easiest” relationship she’s ever been in.
