Adele breaks down amid divorce confession during last carpool karaoke

Even James Corden was in tears.

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April 26, 2023 - 6:54AM

Adele breaks down as she talks about hit song and her divorce during last carpool karaoke with James Corden. Image: Supplied

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Adele has broken down in tears during her appearance as James Corden’s final Carpool Karaoke guest.

The British singer, 34, cried as she made an emotional admission about her divorce while being comforted by The Late Late Show host.

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Adele breaks down as she talks about hit song and her divorce during last carpool karaoke with James Corden. Image: Supplied

How James helped Adele through divorce

Adele revealed that her friendship with Corden, 44, and his wife Julia Carey helped her through the difficult split as they went on holiday together, reports The Sun.

She said that a verse in one of her heartbreak anthems I Drink Wine was inspired by the support she received from the chat show host.

“[The verse] was inspired by a conversation that you and I had, and it was January 4, 2020 or something, and we’d been on vacation together with the kids,” she said.

Adele, who finalised her divorce with Simon Konecki in March 2021, two years after their split, revealed that she went on a family holiday with Corden, his wife, their three children, and her 10 year-old son, Angelo.

“We were on our way home and my mood had changed and it was like the first year that I felt like I had to hold myself accountable, for just being an adult, whereas the year before that I left Simon, that you and Jules and the kids were so integral in looking after me and Angelo.”

The multi-million-selling artist continued: “You used to do it with humour as well, you used to be like, ‘Good luck with that one!’ with any sort of thing that I was pursuing, and you were always so, you were like an adult with me. You and Julia would always give me this advice.”

Even James Corden was in tears as he told his side of the story. Image: Supplied

James recalls his own heartbreak

It turns out it was a two-way street as the singer also told how Corden turned to her for advice when he was going through challenges of his own.

But Adele explained that she struggled to know what to do when the British chat show host confessed he was unhappy with his life in the US as his admission made her feel “unsafe”.

Talking about a six-hour conversation the pair had, Corden explained: “It was work stuff, and the internet, and all those things.”

Adele then said: “It got me thinking, I felt so unsafe, with you feeling unsafe, because you’ve always been like [the adult] you have, since I was like 21.

“And then I went to the studio a couple of weeks later, and I wrote this and I sang it into my phone and I sent it to you and I do remember you saying, ‘That’s exactly how I was feeling.’”

Corden then responded: “It was everything that I was feeling that day. I was floored by how you’d managed to take everything that I was feeling myself, and … just put it in a verse.”

This article originally appeared in The Sun and was reproduced with permission