Adele and Simon Konecki in 2013.Photo: Kevin Mazur/WireImage
Adeleis still showing her appreciation for ex-husbandSimon Konecki, months after their divorcewas finalized.
The 15-time Grammy Award winner, 33, opened up about the end of her marriage with Konecki, 47, as she sat down withOprah Winfreyfor her CBS specialAdele One Night Onlyon Sunday.
“Even now I trust him with my life,” she said of her ex, with whom she shares 9-year-old sonAngelo Adkins. “I feel like him and Angelo were angels sent to me.”
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She also recounted the moment she realized their marriage was over, while she was with a group of her close friends, flipping through the pages of a magazine.
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“We were all answering these questions in this very bougie magazine, and it was something like, ‘What’s something that no one would ever know about you?'” Adele recalled. “And I just said it in front of three of my friends, I was like, ‘I’m really not happy. I’m not living, I’m just plodding along.'”
“And I remember a lyric that I wrote that I put on a song on25, which is, ‘I want to live and not just survive.’ I definitely felt like that. And it was when I admitted to my own friends who thought I was really happy that actually I’m really unhappy, and they were all aghast. I felt like it was sort of from there that I was like, ‘What am I doing it for?'” she said.
Adele began dating the entrepreneur in 2011, and theywelcomed Angeloin October 2012. She later revealed in 2017 that she and Koneckihad tied the knot, beforeannouncing their splitin 2019. Adele filed for divorce in September of that year, and itwas finalizedthis March. The couple now shares joint legal and physical custody of Angelo.
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“I just, from a very young age, promised myself that when I had kids, that we’d stay together. We would be that united family. And I tried for a really, really long time,” she added. “I was just so disappointed for my son. I was so disappointed for myself, and I thought I was gonna be the one that stopped doing those bloody patterns all the time.”
“He’s just hilarious. Oh, he’s so funny, he’s hilarious, yeah. And very smart. You know, he’s very, very smart. It’s quite incredible watching him do what he does,” Adele said, adding: “And just the easiness of it. It’s just been very smooth.”
source: people.com
