Singer Adele has revealed she has given up drinking, after realising she was a “borderline alcoholic”.

Adele, 35, told the audience at her Las Vegas show earlier this month that she had stopped drinking altogether.

“I stopped drinking quite a long time ago … I stopped drinking, when did I stop drinking? It feels like forever,” she said, in a clip posted by a concertgoer to X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday.

“Maybe, like, three and a half months ago.”

The Grammy winner joked that “it’s boring” not having a drink.

“I mean, oh my God, it’s boring,” she said. “I was literally borderline alcoholic for quite a lot of my 20s, but I miss it so much.

“So enjoy your whiskey sour. I’m very, very jealous,” she told one fan in the audience.

Adele went on to say she’s also “cut out caffeine”.

It is not the first time Adele has revealed her struggles with alcohol. She previously told Oprah Winfrey she had stopped drinking after her divorce from ex-husband Simon Konecki and death of her estranged father Mark Evans from bowel cancer in 2021.

“That’s one great way of really sort of getting to know yourself, is just drinking water and being sober as anything,” she said at the time.

While Evans, who died from bowel cancer, had battled an alcohol addiction for much of his life.

Two years ago, Adele told Vogue her drinking had increased during COVID lockdowns in 2020, and she began starting “earlier and earlier” in the day. She said her first “emergency run at the grocery store” during the pandemic was for her favourite wine, and tomato sauce.

Adele told Vogue that both Evans and ill-fated singer Amy Winehouse had influenced her views on booze:

“I got really famous right as Amy Winehouse died,” she said.

“And we watched her die right in front of our eyes.”

She worried that she too could spiral out of control.

“I’ve always had a very close relationship with alcohol. I was always very fascinated by alcohol. It’s what kept my dad from me. So I always wanted to know what was so great about it.”

Earlier this week, Adele became the first female artist to have songs from three different decades reach a billion streams on Spotify (from the 2000s, 2010s and 2020s). She is also the female artist with the most solo songs to reach one billion streams in the platform’s history.

Adele’s Las Vegas residency runs until November 4.