Adele On Being Overcome With Guilt Every Time She Leaves Her Son: 'It's The Hardest Thing Ever'
Adele On The Guilt She Feels When Leaving Son: 'It's The Hardest Thing Ever'
Amy Packham— The Huffington Post UK
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Adele has spoken out about the guilt she feels every time she has to leave her son.
The 27-year-old singer said balancing her career alongside being a mother to three-year-old Angelo can be incredibly hard.
"The guilt, I don’t think any of us really get over it," Adele said on Sirius XM radio in New York.
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Adele said leaving her son to record is one of the "hardest things ever"
She continued: "It makes me emotional when I talk about it actually.
"Leaving him when he would rather be with me is hard. But he comes everywhere with me [when he can]."
The singer, whose latest album 25 is out next week, said she has a "constant struggle" in her mind about whether she's spending enough time with her son and whether she's doing enough work.
"Obviously my work is incredible; it sounds silly calling it work but it is when you have a kid because you have take time away from them," she added.
"So I do find it hard, but I am in a lucky, blessed, privileged situation with how I manage to balance mine most of the time so I feel lucky."
The mum-of-one also said she finds it difficult when she can't wait to see her son, but he just "doesn't want to play" with her or kicks off.
She said: "It is like the hardest thing ever. They make you cry and that is why they do it. They are so clever."
"It used to be that my own world revolved around me, but now it has to revolve around him."
Adele's new album '25': What we know so far
What is the new album called?(01 of04)
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In the least surprising music news of the year, the singer confirmed her third album will be called ‘25’, which follows the tradition of her first two albums being named after the age Adele was when she wrote and recorded them. (credit:XL Recordings)
When is it released?(02 of04)
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Adele’s third album has a release date set for 20 November 2015. Just in time for Christmas. (credit:i-D)
What can we expect?(03 of04)
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If ‘19’ and ‘21’ were break-up records, this is (in her words) Adele’s ‘make-up’ album. She’s in a very different place since she released the 30 million-selling ‘21’ in 2011. Four years on and she’s given birth to her son Angelo and hibernated to spend plenty of QT with him and her partner (and Angelo’s dad), Simon Konecki. So there’s been no heartbreak (as far as we know) but plenty of growing up, as Adele so beautifully put in her open letter to fans, which she shared on social media on 21 October...
Has anyone heard the entire album yet?(04 of04)
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Well Adele most certainly has. And a select few senior record company peeps, but that’s pretty much it. No one wants to risk what is going to be the biggest album of the next few years leaking, so security around this release is tighter than Amanda Holden’s forehead. Even Adele’s famous mates haven’t heard it, although Ed Sheeran recently claimed he knew friends who had and they were ‘really complimentary’. The same can’t be said for Damon Albarn. The Blur frontman worked on five tracks for the album at Adele’s request, none of which have reportedly made the final cut. He later described what he had heard as ‘very middle of the road’. Sour grape anyone? (credit:Drew Gurian/Invision/AP)