Everything We Learned From Adele’s CBS Tell-All: Coparenting, Weight Loss and More

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Everything We Learned From Adele's CBS Tell-All: Coparenting, Weight Loss and More

Honesty hour! From divorce to weight loss, Adele didn’t hold back details in her Sunday, November 15, tell-all interview on CBS. The singer's upcoming album, 30, drops on Friday, November 19, and Adele is not "frightened" of sharing her vulnerable lyrics. "There were moments when I was writing the record, or I would listen back to something and be like, ‘That might be a bit too private,’” the Grammy winner, 33, explained during Adele One Night Only. “But nothing is as scary as what I’ve been through over the last two [or] three years behind closed doors." The “Someone Like You” singer added, "Music helps me in many situations, and I would like to do the same for people. To be reminded that they’re not alone.” The London native, who debuted three songs from 30 during the special, previously opened up about her emotional new music, telling Greg James in October that it was “bloody hard work.” The Oscar winner explained during the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show at the time: “It brought so much joy to my life being able to listen to music and wail at the top of my lungs along to my own bloody songs as I was writing them. … I was singing things I didn’t even realize I was feeling or thinking. I definitely feel like I lost sight of and lost the appreciation of what a gift it is to be into music and be able to make it. I definitely feel like I lost sight of and lost the appreciation of what a gift it is to be into music and be able to make it. I think I got a bit frightened of it for a while and it really, really took care of me big time." [jwplayer FDgOJeCR-zhNYySv2] The songwriter told her Instagram followers in October why she felt “ready” to release her album after three years of working on it. "I’ve learned a lot of blistering home truths about myself along the way,” Adele wrote. "I’ve shed many layers but also wrapped myself in new ones. Discovered genuinely useful and wholesome mentalities to lead with, and I feel like I’ve finally found my feeling again.” Since her last album, 25, came out in 2015, the "Set Fire to the Rain" singer has experienced a major life change, divorcing from husband Simon Konecki in 2019. The former couple share son Angelo, 9, who was born in October 2012. The Oscar winner addressed her evolving coparenting relationship with the businessman, 47, as well as her new romance with sports agent Rich Paul on Sunday. Keep scrolling to read more revelations from Adele’s candid interview. [podcast_block]

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Why She’s Embarrassed About Her Divorce

“I take marriage seriously,” the “Easy on Me” singer said. "And it seems like I don’t now, almost like I disrespected it by getting married and then divorced so quickly and stuff like that. I’m just embarrassed that I didn’t make my marriage work.”

She went on to say, "I’ve been obsessed with a nuclear family my whole life because I never came from one. In all of these movies and all of these books, you grow up thinking that’s what it should be. I just, from a very young age, promised myself that when we had kids, we would stay together. We would be that united family. And I tried for a really, really long time. And then I was just so disappointed for my son, I was so disappointed for myself. And I thought I was going to be the one to stop doing those bloody patterns all the time.”

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Whether She Wants More Kids

Adele revealed, "I would like more children. It wouldn’t be the end of the world if I didn’t because I have Angelo, but yeah, I think so."

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Why She Stopped Drinking

The "Rolling in the Deep" singer stopped drinking when she was “going through [her] divorce a few years ago,” she said, adding, “Not at the beginning. At first, I kept the alcohol industry alive. But once I realized I had a lot of work to do on myself, I stopped drinking and started working out lots to keep me sort of centered.”

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What Led to Her Weight Loss

"I had the most terrifying anxiety attacks after I left my marriage," she explained. "They paralyzed me completely and made me so confused because I wouldn't be able to have any control over my body." Since Adele didn't experience those feelings in the gym, she began spending more time there.

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What Dating Rich Paul Is Like

"He's just hilarious,” Adele gushed of the Ohio native, 39. "He's so funny. And very smart. Very, very smart. It's quite incredible watching him do what he does and just the easiness of it and very smooth. He's making it easy on me. … [It's] the first time I've loved myself and been open to loving and being loved by someone else ... by arriving and turning up. Maybe I'm getting a different version of him as well. It's just timing."

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The Moment She Really Knew About Divorce

“It was when I admitted to my own friends who thought I was really happy but actually I was really unhappy,” Adele said, noting that it came up while they were all taking a personality quiz from a magazine. "They were aghast. I think it was from there I was like, ‘What am I doing? What am I doing it for?’"

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Why She Thinks Simon Came Into Her Life

"I think Simon probably saved my life,” Adele said. "He came at such a moment, where the stability that him and Angelo have given me, no one else would ever have been able to give me. Especially at that time, I was so young and I think I would have got a bit lost in all of it. I could have easily gone down some dodgy paths, you know? And sort of self-destructed from being overwhelmed by all of [the fame]. He came in and was stable. The most stable person I've ever had in my life up until that point. Even now, I trust him with my life."

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Her New Album and Music

“I feel bad if anyone feels horrible about themselves [due to my weight loss], but that’s not my job. I’m trying to sort my own life out," she shared. "My body has been objectified my entire career. ... I was body positive then and I’m body positive now. It’s not my job to validate how people feel about their bodies."

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How Simon Feels About Her Album

“He knows what kind of artist I am, and I have to dig deep and tell my stories,” she explained, noting that they don't really talk about the fact that she wrote about their split.

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How Her Son Is Doing

"That was really hard trying to explain to a 6-year-old that I do love [Konecki], but I’m not in love with him. Makes absolutely no sense for a 6-year-old,” Adele said. "There were so many answers I just couldn’t give him because there aren’t any really that he would understand. But he sees that I still love his dad. We live across the street from each other, we’re away together sometimes. Me and Simon chat away even without Angelo. Angelo could be at school. [We’re still friends] 100 percent. I respect him more than anyone.”

Leaving her marriage was a “loving” choice for Angelo, Adele added, explaining, "I’m still not fully over it, of me choosing to dismantle my child’s life for my own makes me very uncomfortable. I don’t feel guilt, I just feel somewhat selfish sometimes. I know I am nearing my goal of finding my happiness. No one ever makes me do what I don’t want, but I was really ignoring myself for a long time, which was wild to me when I realized it. I knew as an adult, Angelo would be livid with me for doing that. I knew that when he became an adult, he would be furious at me. And I didn’t want that either. It was hard work.”