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Adeleis opening up about the inspiration behind her new album,30.
The clip begins with Oprah reading a verse from the track aloud as she and Adele sit in her rose garden.
“Sounds like you were in the dark, dark, dark hours there,” she tells the singer, before launching into the lyrics. “‘I swear to god,’ you say, ‘I am such a mess. The harder that I try, I regress / I am my own worst enemy / Right now I truly hate being me / Everyday feels like the road I’m on might just open up and swallow me whole / How do I feel so mighty small when I’m struggling to feel at all.’ "
After finishing the verse, Oprah compliments Adele, telling her, “Girl, you can write.”
“Oh, thank you, thank you,” Adele replies.
“What was going on there? What was happening?,” Oprah asks. “How did you keep the faith when you were at your lowest point? What were you holding on to?”
Adele and Oprah Winfrey.Joe Pugliese/Harpo Productions
“My friends always would say, ‘Hold on’ when I would feel like … the lyrics in the verse. But it was just exhausting trying to keep going with it,” she tells Oprah. “It’s a process. You know, the process of a divorce, the process of being a single parent. The process of not seeing your child every single day wasn’t really a plan that I had when I became a mum. The process of arriving for yourself every day, turning up for yourself every single day and still running a home, running a business.”
She continues: “So many people know what I’m talking about and I feel like that as well. I juggle those things as well. And I just felt like not doing it anymore. And also trying to … move forward, but like with intention. Not just trying to get out of it for no reason. My feet hurt walking through all of that concrete.”
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Since splitting from Konecki, Adele has struck up a romance withRich Paul. The two have been linked since early 2021.
Adele One Night Onlyairs at 8:30 p.m. ET Sunday, Nov. 14 on CBS. Adele’s latest album,30, drops Nov. 19.
source: people.com
