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HELLO, FROM OTHER SIDE

Adele dishes on divorce

- By EILEEN RESLEN

Adele has opened up about her painful divorce as she returns to the public spotlight with a historic Vogue two-fer — landing on the November covers of both the US and UK version of the fashion magazine.

The 33-year-old British singer — whose new album, “30,” is due out next month — sat for candid interviews with each magazine, marking the first such collaborat­ion between sister publicatio­ns in Vogue’s 129-year history.

“I was just going through the motions, and I wasn’t happy,” she tells American Vogue of her marriage to charity executive Simon Konecki, with whom she has a 9-year-old son, Angelo.

“Neither of us did anything wrong. Neither of us hurt each other or anything like that. It was just: I want my son to see me really love, and be loved. It’s really important to me,” she adds.

Adele revealed that the hardest part of the split — which she said came some time before they filed for divorce in 2019 — was explaining it to Angelo.

“He has so many simple questions for me that I can’t answer, because I don’t know the answer,” she tells the US mag.

“Like, ‘Why can’t we still live together?’ That’s just not what people do when they get divorced. ‘But why not?’ I’m like, ‘I don’t f- -king know. That’s not what society does.’ And: ‘Why don’t you love my dad anymore?’ And I’d be like, ‘I do love your dad. I’m just not in love.’ I can’t make that make sense to a 9-year-old.”

She also confirms her romance with sports agent Richard Paul.

Adele says she poured her experience with her relationsh­ip into her upcoming album — and suggests that a few of the songs could lead to a few divorces.

“Can you imagine couples listening to it in the car? It’d be so awkward. I think a lot of women are going to be like, ‘I’m done,’ ” she tells British Vogue,

Still, she resists calling it a divorce album.

“It was more me divorcing myself,” she tells US Vogue. “Just being like, ‘B---h, f--kin’ hot mess, get your f- -kin’ s- -t together!’ ”

The album, she tells UK Vogue, was also for her son.

“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,” she says.

“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.”

The singer also gives the skinny on her dramatic weight loss — and the uproar it caused.

“My body’s been objectifie­d my entire career. It’s not just

now,” she tells US Vogue. “I understand why it’s a shock. I understand why some women especially were hurt. Visually, I represente­d a lot of women. But I’m still the same person.”

The worst part, she says, was that “the most brutal conversati­ons were being had by other women about my body. I was very f- -king disappoint­ed with that.”

Still, Adele embraces her figure on British Vogue’s cover (above right) in a yellow corset gown. She also flaunts it in a curve-hugging black dress inside (above).

Meanwhile, she graces American Vogue’s cover (above left), in a billowing green gown.

In US Vogue, she says going to the gym helped her anxiety.

“It became my time,” she says. “I realized that when I was working out, I didn’t have any anxiety. It was never about losing weight.”

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