Adele on weight-loss; new love

Adele stepped back firmly into the spotlight with her first interview in five years and covershoot, having recently announced her first new song in nearly six years ahead of her upcoming album.

Speaking to VOGUE, the Easy on Me singer said her anxiety led to her weight loss and she got “addicted” to becoming strong through working out.

She told the magazine: “It was because of my anxiety. Working out, I would just feel better. It was never about losing weight, it was always about becoming strong and giving myself as much time every day without my phone. I got quite addicted to it. I work out two or three times a day.”

Adele also talked about the end of her marriage to Simon Konecki with whom she shares eight-year-old son Angelo.

“It made me really sad,” she said. “Then having so many people that I don’t know, know, that I didn’t make that work … it f–king devastated me. I was embarrassed. No one made me feel embarrassed, but you feel like you didn’t do a good job.”

She began writing a new album, “30,” as an open letter to their son as opposed to writing a collection of songs centered around her divorce.

She added: “It just wasn’t right for me anymore. I didn’t want to end up like a lot of other people I knew. It wasn’t miserable miserable, but I would have been miserable had I not put myself first. But, yeah, nothing bad happened or anything like that.”

Now the songwriter has found new love with American sports agent Rich Paul and she gushed “he’s f***ing funny.”

She said: “I did date before Rich, but they hated it. They’d find it stressful being out or seen with me…”

“Whereas he’s not frazzled by it at all. It feels like it’s consistent and considerate enough that I don’t care who knows. He’s great. He’s so f**king funny. He’s so smart, you know.”

Adele stated that being with the sports agent is the most “incredible, openhearted, and easiest” relationship she’s ever been in.

While perfecting her upcoming music, Adele ended up meeting the love of her life, Paul, on the dance floor at a mutual friend’s birthday party, where she recalls the DJ playing too many songs by her close pal Drake.

“I was like, ‘You should play something else. I love Drake. But you should play something else,’” she joked.

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The pair have since gone Instagram-official, and Adele’s new album is expected for release on Nov. 19.

“I always had this fear from a really young age that you’re going to leave me anyway, so I’m going to leave or I’m not going to invest myself in anything,” she said.

But Adele found that with Paul, she’s “not frightened of loneliness anymore.”

For the full British Vogue cover story, go to Vogue.co.uk