Operating as she does in the high-stakes world of celebrity, this could have been the year that Adele Adkins’ star finally crashed and burned. Enraging thousands of fans by pulling out of her sold-…
Yet when she walked out on to the stage in the semi-empty Earls Court arena, everyone from the riggers to the technicians stopped to listen to that voice as she belted out one of her first hits, Chasing Pavements.
– father to her nine-year-old son Angelo – stronger and wiser. So how did it go so wrong, and how did she turn it around? “But right from the start, Adele wanted to face everything head on, to take responsibility and to address all the things that were being said about her. She spent hours scrolling through some pretty horrible comments online, read a lot of the most severely critical pieces. There were a lot of tears and she definitely had a few meltdowns, but she knew she couldn’t ignore any of it.
“That whole episode was a disaster,” says her close friend. “It really shook her and made her look at how people were now viewing her. She had loads of meetings with Jonathan and Lucy, who have been with her since the start, and said she needed to show people who she was. Underneath everything, she’s still that feisty girl from London who the world fell in love with a decade ago.”
Having been one of the few invited to An Audience With Adele – filmed at London’s Palladium last November – I am fully aware of how nervous she is about singing live, and what a perfectionist she is about all aspects of her performance.
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