Adele: Voicemail to friend reveals my pain
ADELE lays bare the pain of divorce in a song on her new album – with a voicemail she left a friend while having an “anxiety attack”.
The singer opened up about the message as it emerged the star will be interviewed by Oprah Winfrey in a TV special.
Speaking about the voicemail on the album 30, released next month, she said: “It’s in the song about my son, it’s at the end, in the outro.
“I was really frightened, I was having an anxiety attack and I called my best friend to talk to her to calm me down, but she didn’t bloody answer.
“It shines some light on… I’m talking about my son in the rest of the song, and once I put him to bed I can stop putting on that brave face.”
Adele separated from husband Simon Konecki in 2019 and finalised her divorce earlier this year.
The couple, who met in 2011, had a son, Angelo, now aged eight. Adele has said the new album was recorded to help her boy understand why she and his father got divorced.
Asked on Australian radio station Carrie & Tommy what she’s hoping he will understand from this particular track, she said: “I just think the ability for parents to be humanised by their kids.
“And when he does get older he will understand… just what it was I was going through.”
On Friday, the star released her comeback single – with a video – Easy On Me.
And last night it was revealed the star’s two-hour interview with Oprah in the US will be just days ahead of the album launch on November 19.
CBS said it will feature “conversation about her new album, the stories behind the songs, life after divorce, weight loss and raising her son”.
It will feature performances of new songs.
Several channels are looking at buying rights to screen it in the UK.