Adele bids teary farewell to fans after Las Vegas shows
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Adele has opened up about how her two-year Las Vegas residency got off to a “rocky” start.
The Chasing Pavements singer, 36, mounted the gigs after a traumatic time in 2022, including cancelling her keenly awaited first show with less than a day’s notice.
In a tearful video at the time, Adele said she and her team were “absolutely destroyed by delivery delays and Covid”, and it was “impossible to finish the show” in time.
She wrapped up the last of her Vegas shows on Saturday night (local time) with an emotional performance at Caesars Palace, kissing her 12-year-old son Angelo and fiancée Rich Paul, 43, after making a speech to fans about her battle to see out the residency.
“I am so sad that this residency is over and I am so glad that it happened – I really, really am,” she told the crowd in a video shared on social media.
“It got off to such a f—ing rocky, rocky way. It was one of the worst years of my life.
“I was being punched around, it was horrible and I was told it was career suicide and Vegas would never forgive me for [cancelling] so last minute.”
Ahead of her last show on Saturday, Adele told how she was looking forward to enjoying red wine and resting in bed.
She told fans at one of her recent shows in Sin City: “Doing four hours a weekend of completely live singing is a lot.
“I chat a lot, and I’m very, very sensitive and I’m emotional. I am battered after these shows. And I take every single person on in this room into my soul. I take you home with me.”
She also revealed more about her mixed feelings.
“I will miss it terribly, and I will miss you terribly,” she told the audience.
“I don’t know when I’m next going to perform again. I’m not doing anything else.
“Of course, I’ll be back. The only thing I’m good at is singing. I just don’t know when I next want to come on stage.”
Adele said she’d been on “full recovery” between shows and was ready for them to be over.
“It’s a big deal to me because it’s very, very bittersweet. But [my residency] has been in my mind for four years … four years for one f—ing idea,” she said.
“I’m looking forward to having loads of spare time to love on my kids, to love on my man and to love on another kid. To love on my house.
“Saturday night [when the residency ends], I’m probably going to have a [lot] of red wine.
“That’s the most exciting thing for when the show ends. Then after that I think I’m just going to really, really veg until the end of the year. I feel like I’m early hibernating already.”
-with AAP
