Adele breaks silence on divorce and weight loss in new Vogue interview

Adele has made a stunning appearance in Vogue magazine, opening up about her divorce and revealing exactly how she lost 45kg.

Adele has broken her silence on her divorce heartache as she showed off her incredible weight loss in a stunning new Vogue shoot.

The 33-year-old star has bared her soul ahead of the much-anticipated release of her fourth studio album next month.

Picture: British Vogue: Steven Meisel

It is her first new music since her divorce from Simon Konecki, who she split from in April 2019 after seven years together.

The pair share eight-year-old son Angelo, and she has admitted that the little boy was “really unhappy” about the break-up.

Covering the November issues of British and American Vogue, Adele said that her upcoming album was to answer his questions, explaining: “My son has had a lot of questions. Really good questions, really innocent questions, that I just don’t have an answer for.

“’Why can’t you still live together?’ I just felt like I wanted to explain to him, through this record, when he’s in his twenties or thirties, who I am and why I voluntarily chose to dismantle his entire life in the pursuit of my own happiness.

“It made him really unhappy sometimes. And that’s a real wound for me that I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to heal.”

One of Adele’s incredible new British Vogue covers. Picture: Vogue

The star opts for a different look for the second cover. Picture: Vogue

The devoted mother goes on: “Obviously Simon and I never fought over him or anything like that, Angelo’s just like, ‘I don’t get it.’

“I don’t really get it either. There are rules that are made up in society of what happens and doesn’t happen in marriage and after marriage, but I’m a very complex person. I’ve always let him know how I’m feeling from a very young age because I felt quite frazzled as an adult.”

She added of her break-up: “It just wasn’t… It just wasn’t right for me any more. I didn’t want to end up like a lot of other people I knew. I wasn’t miserable miserable, but I would have been miserable had I not put myself first. But, yeah, nothing bad happened or anything like that.”

The singer, seen here in 2008, has undergone a big transformation in recent years. Picture: Getty

Adele also said that she felt “embarrassed” her marriage didn’t work out, bravely sharing: “That thing of not being able to make something work. We’ve been trained as women to keep trying, even by the movies we watched when we were little. At the time it broke my heart, but I actually find it so interesting now. How we’re told to suck it up. Well, f**k that.”

However, her entire album isn’t about the divorce – despite the star admitting she “thought it would” be, and she also hopes to teach Angelo some life lessons through her music.

She shared: “I wanted to put it on the album to show Angelo what I expect him to treat his partner like, whether it be a woman or a man or whatever. After going through a divorce, my requirements are sky-high. There’s a very big pair of shoes to fill.”

In the first cover photo, the star is showing off her impressive 45kg weight loss in a plunging yellow dress with a gold, star-shaped brooch.

Adele previously covered Vogue around the time of her last album, pictured here. Photo: Vogue

Her light brown hair is styled into huge waves that perfectly frame her pretty face and tumble over her shoulders.

She is gazing seductively at the camera with her trademark cat-eye liner, her lips painted a neutral colour as she pouts unsmiling.

A second cover shows the star staring off into the distance, looking chic with her hair slicked back into a low bun.

She is wearing a huge statement green gown with draping sleeves and a plunging neckline.

This cover reads: “The re-emergence of Adele: ‘I know what I want. And I really know what I don’t want.’”

A third image from the high-end magazine sees Adele look trimmer than ever as she wows in a tweed coat over a striped shirt, while a stunning black and white snap sees her holding onto her stiletto heel in a corsetted black minidress.

Picture: American Vogue: Alasdair Mclellan

The singer also opened up about her body transformation to Vogue, explaining that she had inadvertently gotten into shape after turning to exercise to deal with her anxiety.

“It was because of my anxiety. Working out, I would just feel better,” Adele said.

“It was never about losing weight, it was always about becoming strong and giving myself as much time every day without my phone. I got quite addicted to it. I work out two or three times a day.”

The interview come just two days after the singer thrilled fans with the first listen to her brand new single – her first track in six years.

She posted a 20-second clip of Easy On Me to her social media pages, revealing that it is out next week.

The snippet cuts out before the lyrics begin, with a dreamy piano intro heard instead.

Posted alongside a peek at the accompanying music video, the black and white footage shows Adele looking in a rear-view mirror and putting on a cassette before driving along a country road in her car.

Music sheets fly out of her back window, with the back of the car piled high with luggage.

The singer simply captioned the post: “Easy On Me – October 15” – sending her followers into a frenzy.

Last week, fans went into meltdown as they speculated that she’d revealed her new album’s name after a series of mysterious billboards with ‘30’ on them were put up around the world.

The ‘30’ title would fall in line with Adele’s preferred way of naming her albums, as all three of her studio albums so far have been named after her age at the time of writing; 19, 21, and 25.

Since her last album, the singer has gone on a major health kick for the sake of her son Angelo, eight, which saw her shed a reported seven stone.

Joking about her new look while guest hosting US TV show Saturday Night Live last October, Adele joked: “I know I look really, really different since you last saw me.

“But actually because of all the Covid restrictions and the travel bans, I had to travel light and I could only bring half of me, and this is the half I chose.”

Former East London girl Adele, who lives in a $14.3 million Beverly Hills mansion and boasts 15 Grammy Awards, recently went Instagram official with boyfriend Rich Paul.

Speaking to Vogue, Adele gushed over Paul, and revealed the men she had dated before him had “hated” the attention from the paparazzi.

She said: “I did date before Rich, but they hated it. They’d find it stressful being out or seen with me … Whereas he’s not frazzled by it at all. It feels like it’s consistent and considerate enough that I don’t care who knows. He’s great. He’s so f**king funny. He’s so smart, you know.”

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