An all-out interview, from the relationship with his father recovered on his deathbed, to the love found with super-agent Rich Paul, from divorce to feelings of guilt, to dramatic weight loss: so many confidences that the queen of the salons tv Oprah Winfrey snatched from Adele on the eve of the debut of her fourth album, "Thirty", which will be released on Friday. Oprah interviewed the 33-year-old British singer among the roses in her garden, the background last March of the famous TV chat with the Dukes of Sussex Harry and Meghan who put salt on Megxit's wounds. The scoops were less sensational than then, broadcast during a CBS special, but still equal to the interviewer's talent to bring out the character. "Do you want to make me cry?" asked Adele,barely holding back tears after Winfrey made her talk about the father she made peace with only on the verge of death.
Mark Evans was an alcoholic, he and Adele's mother had separated when she was just two years old: "The total absence of my father's presence and effort with me", the singer of "Easy on Me" replied when Oprah he asked her to name "a deep wound" she is trying to heal. Adele explained that the abandonment of her father influenced her relationships: "I have never had expectations so far. I was convinced that the other would leave me at some point."
Instead, it was Adele who left her husband Simon Konecki, after eight years of cohabitation, immediately after the wedding in 2018: "The union between us walked with difficulty," she explained to Oprah.
Konecky was in the audience of the special at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles with his son Angelo and other celebrities including Lizzo, Melissa McCarthy and Drake: "I've always been obsessed with the idea of a nuclear family because I didn't have one. And now. I feel guilty for dismantling my son's life for mine. Sometimes I wonder if I had better keep my mouth shut instead of hurting the two people I love most in the world. "
In two years, after the divorce, Adele lost almost 50 kilos thanks to a strict exercise program, but the weight loss was a side effect of the fact that the gym "was the only place where I felt calm and did not have more panic attacks ". Having been a protagonist of years of battles with the scales, Oprah asked her if she wasn't worried about the reactions of the fans: "My body has been an object for my entire career. I have enough worries, I don't want to add another" .
But there is a light now in Adele's life: new mate Rich Paul: "You make me blush," she said when Oprah asked her about her relationship with LeBron James' agent and other basketball greats: " It makes me laugh. It is very funny. And this is the first time that I have loved myself and I have opened myself to love and be loved ".
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