I’ve wished my life away says £50m Adele ... as she returns with a new album to sell
IT HAS been three years since she released any new music and she has kept away from the public eye in the meantime.
But yesterday Adele returned to the limelight to promote a new album – with a rambling statement saying she had ‘spent her whole life so far wishing it away’.
Among a list of regrets, the singer said she spent too much time wishing she was older, wishing she had not cut her hair and wishing she was two inches shorter than her 5ft 9in frame.
But she said turning 25 had been the ‘turning point’ at which she accepted herself and that the new album, called 25, followed her transition into adulthood.
In her 373-word rant, Adele, who is now 27, also apologised to fans for the delay in releasing the album, saying: ‘I’m so sorry it took so long, but you know, life happened.’
The singer stepped back from the music industry in October 2012 after giving birth to her first child, a son named Angelo, with 41-year-old partner Simon Konecki. Adele, who is worth an estimated £ 50million,
‘I’m making up for lost time’
became famous in 2008 with her debut album 19. Her follow-up record 21, which was released in 2011 and includes hit songs such as Someone Like You, is the best-selling album of the 21st century so far, with more than 30million copies sold worldwide.
Her last offering was in 2012, when she co-wrote and sung the title track for the James Bond film Skyfall, which hit cinemas days after her son’s birth.
In yesterday’s statement, which she posted on Twitter and Facebook, she wrote: ‘I feel like I’ve spent my whole life so far wishing it away. Always wishing I was older, wishing I was somewhere else ... Wishing I’d gotten to know my great-grandmother more. Wishing I hadn’t cut my hair off, wishing I was 5ft 7in.’
She described 21, which focused on her split from an unnamed ex-boyfriend, as a break-up album, but said 25 is a ‘make-up record’, explaining: ‘I’m making up with myself. Making up for lost time. Making up for everything I ever did and never did.
‘Turning 25 was a turning point for me. Teetering on the edge of being an old adolescent and a fully-fledged adult, I made the decision to go into becoming who I’m going to be forever.’ Speaking to Vogue magazine in 2012, Adele said: ‘I am ****ing off for four or five years. If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy.’
She met Mr Konecki, an Old Etonian, in 2011 and they live in a ten-bedroom, Grade II-listed mansion in West Sussex. The announcement about her album came after a 30-second preview was played in the advert break during the X Factor on Sunday.
A release date has not yet been announced but media reports suggest it could be November 20. A spokesman for the singer yesterday declined to comment.