Adele claims she felt like “a shell of a person” after the “brutal” response to the cancellation of her Las Vegas residency earlier this year.
The singer cancelled her performances in January, telling her fans that the show was not ready, 24 hours before opening night. Adele said she was “devastated” about delaying her three-month stay but insisted she stood by her choice in an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. She informed her followers on Friday that the concert times would change “very, very soon.”
The 34-year-old claimed, “I absolutely felt everyone’s sadness and I was devastated and I was afraid of letting them down,” in an interview with Desert Island Discs host Lauren Laverne. I still stand by the choice I made because I thought I could put it all together and make it work. “I’m not going to just perform a concert because I have to, because people will be disappointed, or because we’ll lose a ton of money,” she concluded. I think the show needs improvement.
When the artist, who just released her fourth album in November, announced in an emotional last-minute Instagram video that the Caesar’s Palace gigs would not go as scheduled, she received backlash online. Of course I could be someone who says, “I’m working on it,” on TikTok or Instagram Live every day, she said. Naturally, I’m working on it. If I have nothing to update you with, I won’t do it because that will only make you more disappointed. For a few months, I was a shell of a person, she said. It was horrible, but all I could do was wait it out and, I think, just lament the shows and get over the guilt.
Adele stated that the Vegas shows would “absolutely 100 percent” take place this year when she told TV host Graham Norton in February that she was working hard with her team to arrange and confirm new dates. The singer was slated to play two gigs every weekend from late January through April as part of the Weekends With Adele series, which was announced late in November. Her performances in London’s Hyde Park on Friday and Saturday were her first legitimate ticketed concerts in five years due to the postponement. She also discussed her relationships with her partner, US sports agent Rich Paul, and her ex-husband Simon Konecki, with whom she shares a son named Angelo, as well as how exercising, which helped her lose weight, had helped her deal with her concerns.
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