Divided by her ex-husband with 700 million, she rejected the British king

Not long ago, because she refused the invitation of King Charles of England, singer Adele got another discussion that had nothing to do with "singer" and related to "personal behavior".

The reason was that Charles invited Adele to sing at his coronation concert, but Adele refused on the grounds of "schedule conflicts".

Although some media found that Adele did not have a public itinerary after March 25, it seemed that she had time to attend Charles' coronation concert in May, even though Charles had publicly stated that he would like Adele to attend.

But she still chose to refuse without mercy, and her behavior may be unreasonable, but it is very personal in Adele's personal style.

After all, although he has been in the industry for 15 years, holds 16 Grammy trophies, 1 Oscar trophy, 1 Golden Globe trophy, and has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide, Adele is by no means a "quality idol".

For example, she frankly admits that she loves alcohol, saying that she alone can support the survival of the alcohol industry; She never shies away from conflicts in the family, publicly declaring at the award ceremony: "I don't love my father at all";

She writes her failed feelings into songs, showing despair constantly; She never even pander to the mainstream aesthetic, and whenever someone asks her to lose weight, she immediately fights back:

"Are you here to hear me sing, or to watch me walk the catwalk."

Later, she first became a mother and experienced a marriage, which ended in failure, and because of the lack of a prenuptial agreement, Adele's net worth was divided by half - about 700 million yuan - at the time of divorce.

In Adele's life, there are always more imperfections than perfections, but from another point of view, it seems that "imperfection" is the key to creating Adele.

For the first 30 years of Adele's life, for a long time, she constantly struggled with her childhood experiences. "I wanted to have a happy family all my life because what I had wasn't happy," she said. ”

Adele was born in Tottenham, North London in 1988, with her full name Adele Adkins.

Her mother was 18 when she was born and didn't even have a regular job, while her father was an alcohol-addicted plumber who drank at least two liters of vodka a day.

Years later, he also told the media that the kindest thing he had ever done to Adele was not to let her see him drunk and tell her that he was drinking juice.

It's just that he didn't know that the metaphor he made had affected Adele's life for a long time.

Adele with her father

As an adult, Adele also began to drink heavily, and even after becoming famous, she never shy away from her love of drinking, and she once described herself as "one person can feed the alcohol industry".

"I got a hint from my father from a young age that drinking is just a way of life," she said. ”

And it was this lifestyle that finally brought Adele's parents' marriage to an end.

When Adele was three years old, her parents decided to divorce, Adele lived with her mother, and her father ran away from the life of mother and daughter and returned to her native Wales.

Adele as a child

Later, in order to support Adele, her mother worked as a masseuse, renovator, and logistics worker, and because of the change of job, the mother and daughter moved to Brighton, Brixton and other cities in England, and finally settled in an apartment above a discount store in West Norwood, south London.

But despite her bumpy life, poor family, and unreliable father, Adele has "the best mother in the world".

Adele with her mother

On Adele's left wrist is a tattoo with a circle and a red heart next to it that reads "One Penny" — which represents her mother's name, Penny.

Although her mother Penny was still very young when she gave birth to Adele, she gave Adele enough love that she would tell Adele from a young age that you don't have to cater to other people's preferences, your life is the best.

And for Adele's every hobby, she fully supports, Adele loved to sing when she was a child, and Penny once invited neighbors near home to hold a concert for her daughter at home.

Today, as a singer, Adele has neither a background in a musical family nor a systematic study of music, and her only bridge between her and music is her mother Penny.

Penny loves music and has many singer records in the family, and when Adele was three years old, Penny carried her to concerts.

Every time she hugged Adele to sleep, Penny would play different songs on the record player, which became Adele's original "music lesson".

Adele as a child

It wasn't until 2002, when 14-year-old Adele first bought a copy of an album by Etta James at a local record store, that she fell in love with music completely.

It was also in this year that Adele was admitted to the British School of Performing Arts and Technology, and began to write songs independently, and every weekend, Adele would go to a bar near the school to sing.

Adele while she was in school

During this time, she recorded three song demos for the course project, which were soon posted online by her friends, and at the time, many musicians would post their work online, and Adele didn't care.

It wasn't until a few days later that she found that her mailbox began to flood with several emails, which she initially thought were spam, and deleted a few more.

Later, seeing more and more emails, she opened it and studied it carefully, only to find that it turned out that her song had attracted the attention of many music venue companies, and they sent emails to Adele, inviting her to sign a contract.

Old photo of Adele

Finally, under the persuasion of her mother, Adele reluctantly met with XL Records' manager, and after this meeting, Adele officially signed with XL Records and became a singer.

She was 19 years old, just graduated from school for 4 months, because of her slightly fat figure, most of the time she wore black clothes, her hair was tied obliquely behind her head, standing in the crowd, she did not seem to have any dimension that could be associated with the word "superstar".

However, the moment the microphone appeared beside her, everything was different.

In Adele's life, if you want to sort factors such as career, love, family, friendship, etc., there is no doubt that her singer career is the least important.

Before being signed by XL Records, Adele never wanted to become a singer, and although the school she attended had produced many famous singers, fame was never in her plans.

At that time, Adele planned to continue living with her mother after graduation, find a job teaching, and sing in bars every weekend to earn some extra income.

Old photo of Adele

However, everything changed after she was signed.

In 2008, at the age of 19, Adele released her first album, "19", and most of the songs on the album were written by Adele when she was about 14 years old.

Cover of Adele's first album "19"

The album was an instant hit, winning the British Critics Award for Best New Artist that year, and "19" quickly became platinum.

Seeing the album fire, the company planned to move Adele to the American market, and planned a short tour of North America for her. But at the time, Adele was in a relationship that she would later call "extremely devastating."

She is madly in love with a boy, she can't even leave each other for a moment, their love is filled with alcohol, and life begins to spiral out of control.

Old photo of Adele

Adele even gave up a great opportunity for him and resolutely canceled the North American tour, and her plans to enter the US market were dashed.

After hearing her decision, the staff around her said to her: "No young artist dares to do this, and should not do it".

However, a few months later, the god of fate favored Adele, who was given the opportunity to appear as a guest on the American variety show Saturday Night, singing songs including "

Chasing Pavement" including two songs.

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Before the episode aired, Adele's album "19" was still number 40 on the US music charts, and 24 hours after the show aired, the album became number 1.

Overnight, unexpectedly, Adele became popular in the United States.

With this album, Adele was nominated 4 times at the Grammy Awards the following year, and eventually won the "New Artist of the Year" and "Best Pop Singer Award".

This year, Adele has just turned 20 years old, and her youth and talent have become her greatest wealth, which also means unlimited potential.

In 2009, Adele, who won two Grammy trophies

For example, shortly after winning the Grammy, Adele sang Bob Dylan's old song "Make You Feel My Love" on a show, and her singing made the song once again number four on the UK singles chart.

Adele also once joked, "I saved Bob Dylan's career, I made the song go viral."

In 2011, Adele released her second album "21", which is a work that records Adele's love pain.

When she wrote the album, she talked about a boyfriend 10 years older than herself, who had almost all the qualities that Adele loved—a love of reading, a love of music, and a writer of poetry.

Adele later said in an interview: "He made me grow up as an adult and let me embark on the journey I wanted", when the relationship was strong, Adele even desperately wanted to marry him, but the other party always refused, and this became the trigger for the two to break up.

But what made Adele difficult to accept was that a few months after breaking up with herself, the other party announced that she was engaged to someone else, and at that moment Adele woke up like a dream, it turned out that the other party did not want to get married, but did not want to marry herself.

Then she wrote "Someone Like You," in which she sang: "I heard that you have a heart, you have met her, and you have entered the marriage hall." ”

On top of that, there's the powerful "Rolling in The Deep."

The heartbroken album brought Adele even greater success, and within months of its release, the album topped the charts in more than thirty countries, becoming the world's best-selling album in 2011-2012, and the best-selling album of the 21st century in the UK.

At the 2012 Grammys, she won all six nominations to become the biggest winner of the night, the year Adele turned 24.

In 2012, Adele won six Grammy trophies

And when Adele's heartbreak song was still being played over and over again, people found that at the Grammy Awards, there was one more person next to her.

In 2012, Adele gave birth to a son, named Angelo.

The father of the child is her boyfriend Simon Konečeć, who was in a relationship for less than a year and had not registered their marriage.

Simon, 12 years older than Adele, is a financial practitioner, and Adele describes their encounter as a redemption: "Simon saved my life, helped me not to be overwhelmed by fame and fortune and went astray, he was the most stable person around me." ”

Adele and Simon

In the second year of their relationship, the two gave birth to their son Angelo.

During pregnancy, because the baby would kick her in the stomach as soon as she sang the soprano song, Adele suspended her musical work and only sang the theme song "Skyfall" for the movie "007: Skyfall".

With this song, Adele won the "Best Original Song for Film" award at the Oscar and Golden Globe Awards, just 5 years after Adele's debut.

It seems that both Adele's career and family have gone in a better direction, but it was also at this time that Adele turned off the fire and had the idea of quitting the music scene.

The birth of her son has greatly changed Adele's body and life, she suffered from postpartum depression, various physical conditions, and the pressure of long-term work also exploded at this moment.

Eventually, she decided to retire temporarily to focus on taking care of her son.

Adele with her son

This is not a wise decision, after all, for Adele, who is at the peak of her career, retiring indefinitely means temporarily giving up her market, and the answer to whether she will be able to regain lost ground after returning is not clear.

Even so, Adele resolutely disappeared.

It wasn't until 3 years later that 27-year-old Adele returned with her third album "25", and the title song "Hello" from the album was written shortly after she became a mother.

For her, if the last album was a "breakup album" that tells the story of a lost love, then this album should be called a "make-up album".

She said: "I made up for the time I used to disappear, made up for the decisions I made, and by the age of 25 I finally found out what kind of person I had become unintentionally, and I'm sorry it took so long, but you know, my life has changed. ”

Adele "25" album cover

The album "25" once again showcases Adele's strong market appeal, selling 30 million records at a time when the global recording industry is shrinking.

Even the British prime minister wrote in an open letter to Adele: "The British economy is in crisis, but you are the light at the end. ”

Shortly after this comeback, in 2016, Adele and her boyfriend Simon registered their marriage in the UK, however, the marriage lasted only 4 years.

In 2019, in the 7th year of their relationship and the 3rd year of marriage, 31-year-old Adele announced that she had decided to divorce her husband Simon.

Because no prenuptial agreement was signed, when the two liquidated their divorced property, Adele's property would be divided by half by her ex-husband, and some institutions estimated that the amount would be as high as 700 million yuan.

Adele's family of three

But what really pained Adele compared to property was that she demolished her family with her own hands.

After all, at a very young age, she once vowed to herself: "When I have a child in the future, our family will definitely be together forever, and we will form a happy and harmonious family." ”

Adele chats about family

So even though Adele realized early on that she was unhappy most of the time in this marriage, she was still unwilling to give up.

However, the relationship between people may be one of the few things in the world that cannot be obtained by hard work and persistence, and Adele's relationship with Simon still comes to an end.

"I tried, but I still let my son down and let myself down," she said. ”

Nowadays, in addition to the talent in singing, the reason why many people like Adele, as well as her self-confidence and self-confidence, such as she has never deliberately lost weight to cater to mainstream aesthetics, whenever someone asks her to lose weight, she will respond:

"You're here to hear me sing, not to see me go on the catwalk."

However, for a long time after the divorce, due to psychological pressure, Adele suffered from anxiety and was unable to move physically in severe cases.

To recover, she tried all sorts of ways to heal herself — meditation, sound baths, reading in the tub, and she stopped smoking and drinking and started doing the exercises she hated the most.

The process of regaining balance in life was not easy, but Adele didn't give up.

Adele in motion

In 2021, when Adele, who lost 90 pounds, appeared in the public eye with her fourth album "30", people found that this "huge lovelessness" did not knock her down.

And Adele also described the album as "a desperate bet in the most turbulent period of her life", after all, it was also the year that her father died.

For Adele, the relationship with her father has always been a thorn in her life, and in her upbringing, his father never raised her, and after attending her grandmother's funeral at the age of 15, she cut off contact with him and no longer had any communication.

"I don't know what a dad should do because I've never had a dad and we shed the same blood but he never kept his promises, which is disappointing," Adele said.

Old photo of Adele with her father

After Adele became famous, his father began to constantly give interviews to the media as "Adele's father", and Adele was very angry about his father's behavior, and even spoke publicly at the award ceremony:

"I don't love my father at all."

Adele "dissociated" from her father

It was not until 2020, because of cancer, Adele's father's life entered the countdown, Adele was finally willing to sit down with her father and try to communicate with him.

In the final stage of her father's life, the two talked about many things that had not been spoken for all these years, cried many times, and Adele also played her new album "30" to her father.

In the process, Adele felt that the huge gap in her heart was gradually filled, and although her father eventually left in 2021, Adele was finally able to reconcile with the past, she said:

"We walked through a peaceful time together, and I felt that the wound in my heart was completely healed."

This year, Adele was 32 years old.

Adele talks about her father

In past albums, she has always described the lost relationship angrily and confrontationally, and even in a relationship, because she is afraid of being hurt, in order to protect herself, she will always hurt the other party first.

And now she has changed from a daughter to a mother, began to understand marriage, reconciled goodbye to her father, and finally began to love herself more and know how to love more.

Since releasing her first album at the age of 19, Adele has spent more than a third of her life in the music scene.

As a singer, Adele has stood at a very high starting point since her debut, and in the days since, she has been known as one of the most famous female singers in the UK in the 21st century, holding 3 Guinness records, taking home multiple Grammy trophies, and selling hundreds of millions of records worldwide.

Adele

But throughout her life outside of her halo, her appearance was not mainstream for a long time, and her experience was not good - lost love, alcoholism, weight loss, broken relationship with her father, lost 700 million for divorce.

She constantly shares the embarrassing moments in her life in her songs: the absence in her heart formed by her father's departure when she was a child; the sorrow of not wanting to leave his mother when he was a teenager; a period of feelings that she later called "trash" in her youth; and the confusion after becoming a mother.

It seems that everyone can see a certain aspect of their life in her life and share those heartbreaking moments with the "ordinary girl" Adele.

And this has become one of the reasons why people like Adele - in addition to her voice, her sincerity is equally precious.

In Adele's latest album, she wrote a song "My Little Love" for her son, hoping that when his son is in his 20s, this song can explain to her son why she chose to divorce and pursue her happiness in the first place.

She also hopes that her son will be able to reacquaint himself with his mother, and her choices, through the song.

At the same time, Adele is also using actions to prove to her son that even if his parents divorce, he can still have complete father and mother love.

Adele's ex-husband rented a house across from her house, and they would go out with their son together every weekend, and on weekdays, she would often chat with her ex-husband and share the trivialities of life like a friend.

Adele said: "I still love him, just not love. ”

This year, Adele is 34 years old.

She is no longer the girl who was hurt again and again, hiding alone in the bathroom and crying, but a woman who can hug herself.

Not long ago, Adele fell in love again, a well-known sports agent, and the two met at a birthday party, after which they began to try dating.

Adele described the other party as very humorous, very smart, and very comfortable to get along with, and she called this relationship "the first time in her life that she opened her heart to love and be loved".

Adele (right) and boyfriend (left)

It seems that Adele is happier and freer today than at any stage of her life, whether it is about career, family or herself, she has found an outlet.

The long rainy season and fog that permeated Adele's life finally cleared and gradually dissipated.