And what’s a better album prompt than a high-profile divorce?įor Adele, the fan reaction was bewildering. At the time Adele and Konecki announced their breakup, nearly four years had passed since her last album, 25, and her audience was hungry for something new. Adele built her empire on heartache: moving reflections of pain and its aftermath, like finding “ Someone Like You,” or merely saying “Hello” to an ex after years have passed. You can understand where the fans were coming from. Tweets and memes flooded social media, expressing not just shock that the relationship had ended, but also excitement at the idea that Adele’s heartbreak would inspire new music. A close friend flew out from England to Los Angeles to make sure the then-30-year-old wasn’t on her own as the news spread.
Their wedding was so private there aren’t even pictures online.Īdele’s dread only intensified after a press release went out that Good Friday evening. Their relationship was remarkably under the radar given Adele’s growing stardom, partly because she really only emerged from her life as a wife and mother to their son, Angelo, to release record-shattering albums. A holiday weekend, she figured, might deflect some of the attention she had been dreading.Īdele and her husband, Simon Konecki, had been together since 2011. It was Good Friday, 2019, and their marriage had been over for some time.
Adele thought that maybe, just maybe, she could quietly slip news of her and her husband’s separation into the world without much notice.
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