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Adele talks to Heart about divorce, homesickness... and Ed Sheeran
16 October 2021, 09:43 | Updated: 23 November 2021, 18:10
Adele speaks to Heart about being homesick, life changes and Ed Sheeran
The last six years waiting for new Adele music has felt like a lifetime - so Heart Breakfast couldn't wait to find out what she's been up to ahead of the release of 30
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October 15th might be the best day of 2021 - why? Because it was the day Adele's new single Easy On Me was released, and the day she joined Heart Breakfast.
The 33-year-old beamed in to the Heart studio from her LA mansion, looking incredibly glam.
She joked: "I got all my glam done and I’m still in my house. I’ll wipe I off and go to bed, it’s great."
Adele has been through some big changes in her six years away from the spotlight, least of all externally - but there has been some massive personal changes, too.
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She divorced her husband Simon Konecki just months after they wed, calling time on their seven year relationship.
It was a decision that Jamie Theakston told her would doubtless inspire many others feeling stuck in a rut, or living a life they don't find emotionally fulfilling.
She said: “It was overdue but it was exhausting and it was really hard work. But I was able to take the time that I needed which isn’t a given for everyone. The more and more you put it off, the worse and worse it gets and I’d been putting it off anyway for years before. So now I am chilled as anything. I’d say it’s worth it, knee deep, treading through all that poo is worth it."
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Her new album, 30, is named about the year of her life where she got married and divorced, but it also acts as a reply to press reports about her life that she previously refused to comment on, giving "her side" on it.
She told Jamie and Amanda: "I’ve been away for quite some time, and a lot of it, not all of it as been documented in the press and I’ve not really said anything about it. There were a few times where it was a little bit too close to home, but I chose not to rise to it.
"My side of it, I’ve done a lot of learning over the past few years, more than ever. There is a reason that I am one of the complicated, complex people I’ve ever met in my life and I am a little bit closer to understanding why, that is what my side is."
Adele also explained why talking to British people makes her homesick, and had a hilarious reaction to being told Ed Sheeran has an album coming out at the same time of hers, around November 19.
She laughed: “I ain’t panicking he can panic!”
