(ADELE'S 'WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE') - Good evening, everyone. I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to a spectacular night here at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. Tonight, you have a front row seat to a very special one night only concert with Adele. She's singing all the songs I know you want to hear and new songs we've all been waiting six years for. And throughout the night, you'll see my conversation with Adele. It was so much fun. She's as real, as down-to-earth as we all believe she is. But right now, it is my great delight to introduce the 15-time Grammy-winning icon, Adele! (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) (ADELE'S 'HELLO') (CHEERING, APPLAUSE CONTINUES) (APPLAUSE CONTINUES) - # Hello. # It's me. # I was wondering if after all these years, # you'd like to meet # to go over # everything. # They say that time's supposed to heal ya, # but I ain't done much healing. # Hello. # Can you hear me? # I'm in California dreaming about who we used to be # when we were younger # and free. # I've forgotten how it felt before the world fell at our feet. # There's such a difference # between us # and a million miles. # Hello from the other side. (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) # I must've called a thousand times # to tell you I'm sorry # for everything that I've done, # but when I call, you never # seem to be home. # Hello from the outside. # At least I can say that I've tried # to tell you I'm sorry # for breaking your heart, # but it don't matter. It clearly # doesn't tear you apart any more. # Hello. # How are you? # It's so typical of me # to talk about myself, I'm sorry. # I hope # that you're well. # Did you ever make it out of that town # where nothing ever happened? # It's no secret # that the both of us # are running out of time. # So hello from the other side. - CHORUS: # Other side. - # I must've called a thousand times... - # Thousand times. - # ...to tell you I'm sorry # for everything that I've done, # but when I call, you never # seem to be home. - # Hello from the outside. - # Outside. - # At least I can say that I've tried... - # I've tried. - # ...to tell you I'm sorry # for breaking your heart, but it don't matter, # it clearly doesn't tear you apart # any more. - # Highs, highs, highs, highs. - # Ooh. - # Lows, lows, lows, lows. - # Any more. - # Highs, highs, highs, highs. - # Ooh. - # Lows, lows, lows, lows. - # Any more. - # Highs, highs, highs, highs. - # Ooh. - # Lows, lows, lows, lows. - # Any more. - # Highs, highs, highs, highs. - # Any more. - # Lows, lows, lows, lows. - # Hello from the other side. - # Other side. - # I must've called a thousand times... - # Thousand times. # ...to tell you I'm sorry # for everything that I've done, # but when I call, you never # seem to be home. - # Hello from the outside. - # Outside. - # At least I can say that I've tried... - # I've tried. # ...to tell you I'm sorry # for breaking your heart, but it don't matter. # It clearly # doesn't tear you apart any # more. # (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) (ADELE LAUGHS) - Hello! - Hello! - Mwah! Mwah! - OK. Hi. - OK. This is so good. - Ooh! Yes. - # Hello. # - Hi. (BOTH SNICKER) - No, hi. We can't even say hello any more. - Hi. Yeah. I don't really say hello anymore. That's why. - You don't? - Not really, cos it's like a joke. (BOTH LAUGH) - OK. Well, hi, Adele. - Hiya. - Hiya. Welcome to my rose garden. - It's lovely. It's beautiful. - Well, thank you for coming to join me here. - It feels very British. - Does it? - Yes. - Well, actually because, yes, and because my tea house is here. - Yes. - Everybody, we just met. - Mm-hmm. - And the concert tonight is a celebration of your biggest hits and the debut of the new songs from 30, and you start with Hello. - Yes. Well, I think I'm always going to have to start with Hello. I think it'd be a bit weird if it was, like, halfway through a set. - (LAUGHS) - You know? So, yeah, I'm starting with it. - OK. So, that music video has been viewed nearly three billion times. - Three billion? Oh, I didn't know that. - Three billion times. - Billion? That's insane. # Hello from the outside. - That song means so much to people all around the world. - It does, yeah. - So what does it represent to you? - Well, the show is the first time that, you know, that... I'm singing it from where I am now. - Yes. - Which I think is great. This song, to me, was the beginning of me trying to find myself, and I hadn't figured out yet what it was I had to do for that. But when I wrote it, it was a real ode to, like, little me, older me, like, all of these things, like, you know? So it's just a song about, like, 'I'm still here,' you know? It's sort of like, 'Hi, I'm still here,' like I still exist, you know, in every aspect of my life. - Well, it feels like that on 30. You have literally opened up your soul in a way that, even though we have heard your pain before, it feels like pain was almost like a muse for you for this. I read something you said. You said, 'I was singing things I didn't even realise I was feeling or thinking.' - Mm-hmm. - So is that how the music comes to you? Is that a part of your process? Is it the music as catharsis? - Yeah, it's definitely channels from somewhere else. You know, when I'm singing and when I'm writing, like, and I was kind of aware of that on the other albums, but this one, you know, a lot more I felt it, because everything was happening in real time. I was writing my album, you know, while I was going through everything. - Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. - But I don't think as a person, I have what my singing has. - What do you mean? - I just think there's something that I'm pulling from somewhere else. And I don't know if, you know, it's something else from underneath. I don't know what it is that's coming up through me, but it's not` I don't know how I access it. It's wild because I don't think I'm that deep in real life. (LAUGHS) So... - But then you listen to the music and you think, 'Deep.' Right? - You know, or I'll just be like, 'I am making progress,' or, like, just` It's a revelation to me, the songs. - Well, I read something that you said. You said, 'I'm not shy or embarrassed to be falling apart.' That's one of the reasons why you feel people are so connected to your music, and I wondered what gives you... the freedom, actually, and the courage to be able to fall apart and expose yourself in a world and a culture now that is a gotcha culture? And if you make the wrong move, you say the wrong thing, somebody's got some, you know, wisecrack about it. - I think the reason I'm so brave to do it, you know, in my career so far was because, again, music helped me in many situations and I would like to do, you know, the same for people that feel so alone when they're feeling something, to be reminded that they're not alone. And in terms of now, you know, there were moments when I was writing the record or I would listen back to something and be like, 'That might be a bit too private. 'That might be a bit too, you know, too about myself and stuff,' to put out, but nothing is as scary as what I've been through over the last two or three years behind closed doors, so I'm not frightened about what people may or might not do now, you know? (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) Hey, guys! How posh is this? (LAUGHTER) Also, get you, Lizzo. I think you're coming to outshine me, babes. I love that. I love that poncho coat. Ooh, yeah. Nice. Erm, hi everyone. Thank you so much for coming tonight. Welcome to One Night Only with me, although most of you I know and you have too many nights with me, really. (LAUGHTER) But I wanted to feel safe in my first little comeback thing. Hang on. I've got dry mouth. So I wanted to do a mixture of people that I know and love, people that I've met a few times, and some of you, I don't know at all, but hi. (LAUGHTER) And I'm going to do some old ones for you. I'm going to do some new ones for you. (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) So I haven't sung this` This is a new song. I haven't sung this song yet for anyone ` not in real life. (BLEEP)ing myself. (LAUGHTER) I'm not gonna lie. (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) Um, so I could do with your help if any of you know it. This is Easy On Me. (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) (ADELE'S 'EASY ON ME') # There ain't no gold # in this river # that I've been washing my hands in forever. # I know there is hope # in these waters, # but I can't bring myself to swim # when I am drowning # in this silence. # Baby, let me in. # Go easy on me, baby. # I was still a child. # Didn't get the chance to # feel # the world around me. # I had no time to choose # what I chose to do. # So go easy # on me. # There ain't no room # for things to change # when we are both so deeply # stuck in our ways. # You can't deny # how hard I have tried. # I changed who I was # to put you both first, # but now, I give up. # Go easy on me, baby. # I was still a child. # Didn't get the chance to # feel # the world around me. # I had no time to choose # what I chose to do. # So go e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e... # easy # on me. # I had good intentions # and the highest hopes. # But I know right now, # it probably doesn't even show. # Go easy on me, baby. # I was still a child. # I didn't get the chance to # feel # the world around me. (APPLAUSE) # I had no time to choose # what I chose to do. # So go easy # on me. # (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) Thank you. (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) (ADELE'S 'SKYFALL') # This is the end. # Hold your breath and count # to 10. # Feel the Earth move, # and then # hear my heart burst # again, # for this is the end. # I've drowned and dreamt # this moment. # So overdue, I owe them. # Swept away, I'm stolen. # Let the sky fall. # When it crumbles, # we will stand tall # and face it all # together. Let the sky fall. # When it crumbles, # we will stand tall # and face it all together # at Skyfall. # At Skyfall. # Skyfall is where we start. # A thousand miles and poles apart # where worlds collide and days are dark. # You may have my number. # You can take my name, # but you'll never have my heart. # Let the sky fall. - # Let the sky fall. - # When it crumbles,... - # When it crumbles,... - # ...we will stand tall... - # ...we will stand tall. - # ...and face it all # together. Let the sky fall. - # Let the sky fall. - # When it crumbles,... - # When it crumbles,... - # ...we will stand tall... - # ...we will stand tall. # ...and face it all together # at Skyfall. - # Let the sky fall. # When it crumbles,... - # At Skyfall. - # ...we will stand tall. - # Where you go, I go. # What you see, I see. # I know I'd never be me # without the security # of your loving arms # keeping me from harm. # Put your hand in my hand # and we'll stand. # Let the sky fall. - # Let the sky fall. - # When it crumbles,... - # When it crumbles,... - # ...we will stand tall... - # ...we will stand tall. - # ...and face it all together. # Let the sky fall. - # Let the sky fall. - # When it crumbles,... - # When it crumbles,... - # ...we will stand tall... - # ...we will stand tall. # ...and face it all together # at Skyfall. # Let the sky fall. # We will stand tall # at Skyfaaaaaaa... # aa-aa-aaaaaaaa... # aa-aa-aaaaaaall. # Oooh, oooh, # ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooooooh, # mm, mm, mm. # (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) - You lost 100 pounds in two years, and then you said it wasn't even really about the weight. - No. - So what was it about? Let's hit it. Oh, sweet. (WHAM!'S WAKE ME UP BEFORE YOU GO-GO PLAYS) Jitterbug. OK. # You put the boom-boom into my heart # Ooh-ooh # You send my soul sky high when your loving starts... # - No. - So what was it about? So here's the thing ` you write about it in song after song. You start with, you know, Easy On Me that's been released. Can you just give us an idea of what happened with this all-consuming` It feels like an all-consuming pain, and I'm like, 'What the hell happened?' - I've been obsessed with a nuclear family my whole life because I never came from one, you know? It's in all these movies and all these books like, you know, and you grow up reading them like, 'That's what it should be.' - Right, - Like, you know, and... I just` From a very young age, just, you know, promised myself that when I had kids that we'd stay together, we would be that united family, and... - Aaaaaahhh. - And I tried for a really, really long time, and then, um,... I was just so disappointed for my son. I was so disappointed for myself, and I was just` I thought I was going to be the one that, you know, stopped doing those bloody patterns all the time. - So do you call this` Is this the divorce album? - I think I'm divorcing myself on it. - Yeah. - Yeah. - How does one do that? - It's lonely, you know? I spent a lot of time on my own really sitting in my feelings and not keeping myself busy. I used to always` If a feeling came up, I'd distract myself or I call a friend and like, 'Oh, do you wanna go out? What do you wanna do? (MUMBLES)' - Yeah. - And I'd put a movie on or whenever and I would just sit with it. - I would just eat it myself. (LAUGHS) - Yeah. No, absolutely. But I would just` whenever I noticed how I was feeling, I would sit down and I'd sit in it. Erm, I stopped drinking. That's one great way of really sort of getting to know yourself is being, you know, just drinking water and being sober as anything. - But you've had a fascinating relationship with alcohol. I read where you said that alcohol really fascinated you. - Yeah, yeah, very much. Yeah, because it took my dad for me. Yeah. - Yeah. And then you stopped? - Well, when I was going through everything a couple years ago when I was going through my divorce, yes. Not at the beginning. At first, I` (PUFFS) No, I think I probably kept the alcohol industry alive. But, you know, after` once I realised that I had a lot of work to do on myself, yeah, I stopped drinking, and I started working out lots and stuff like that to keep me sort of centred. - Was there a moment when you knew? Or was it a series of things that you said, 'Can't do this anymore?' - With my journey? Or in` - With the divorce from Simon. Like, because I, you know, over the years of interviewing so many people who stayed, were miserable, were miserable, and years before they actually made the move,... - Yeah. - ...had started thinking about it. So I'm wondering, was there a single moment? Or was... - I do remember one of my friends ` we were all answering these questions in this very bougie magazine. - Mm-hmm. - And it was... It was something like, 'What's something that no one would ever know about you?' 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 there was a lyric that I wrote that I put on a song on 25, which is, 'I want to live and not just survive.' - Mm-hmm. - And, yeah, I definitely felt like that, but it was when I admitted to my own friends who thought I was really happy that, actually, I'm really unhappy, and they all gasped. Like, you know, I feel like it was sort of from there that I was like, 'What am I doing? What am I doing it for?' You know? But I think it was just by us getting married and us having our wedding, and, you know, I take marriage very seriously. Like, obviously, it seems like` - Yeah, cos you have all of that stuff from the past. - And it seems like I don't, you know, now. Like, you know, almost like I disrespected it by getting married and then, you know, divorce so quickly and stuff like that. But I think... - Are you embarrassed because it was so quickly? - I'm just embarrassed that I didn't make my marriage work. - OK. - You know? - So now that you have perspective and you've opened up your soul and shared it with the world here on 30, why do you think is the real reason Simon came into your life? - I think Simon probably saved my life, to be honest with you. He came at such a moment where the stability that him and Angelo have given me ` no one else would ever been able to give me, like, especially at that time in my life. I was so young, and I just think I would have got a bit lost in all of it. Like, you know? And I think I probably could have easily gone down some dodgy paths, like, you know? And sort of self-destructed from sort of, like, being so overwhelmed by all of it. And he came in and was stable ` the most stable person I've ever had in my life up until that point. Even, you know, even now, I trust him with my life. - Really? - Oh my gosh. Like, beyond. Like, yeah, I feel like... Yeah, him and Angelo, like, they were angels sent to me. That's how I feel. - So came into your life at the right season and for the right reasons to save you? - Yes, absolutely. Yeah. - And in that moment when Angelo said to you, 'Why don't you love Daddy any more?' - Yeah, that was really hard as well, and trying to explain to, like, a 6-year-old at the time, obviously, that 'I do love him. I'm just not in love with him' makes absolutely no sense to a 6-year-old. (CHUCKLES) Like, you know? So there were so many answers I just couldn't give him because there aren't any, really, like, you know, that he would understand. But he sees that I still love his dad. Like` - Cos you live across the street from each other. - We live across the street from each other, we, like` We're away together sometimes, like, you know? And, um, and... Yeah, like, me and Simon also chat away without Angelo. Like, Angelo, you know, could be at school. - So you're still friends? - Oh, yeah. - It's all amicable? - 100%. - 100%. - Yeah, yeah. I respect him more than anyone. - How does he feel about this album and the story of the two of you coming through your music? - I mean, we don't sit around and talk about it, like, 'How are you feeling?' Like, you know, 'Easy On Me's had 40 million streams. How are you feeling?' (LAUGHS) We don't talk about it, but he knows` you know, he knows what kind of artist I am and that I have to dig deep and tell my stories. (ADELE'S 'I DRINK WINE') # How could one become so bounded by choices # that somebody else makes? # How can we both become a version # of a person we don't even like? # We're in love with the world, # but the world just wants to bring us down # by putting ideas in our heads # that corrupt our hearts somehow. # When I was a child, every single thing # could blow my mind. # Soaking it all up for fun, # but now I only soak up wine. (SCATTERED LAUGHTER) # They say to play hard, you work hard, # find balance in the sacrifice. # Yet I don't know anybody # who's truly satisfied. # You better believe I'm tryin'... - # Tryin'. Tryin.' - # ...to keep climbin'. - # Climbin'. Climbin'. - # But the higher we climb, # feels like we're both none the wiser. - # Ah, ah, ah. # So I hope I learn # to get over myself. # Stop trying to be # somebody else # so we can love # each other for free. # Everybody wants something. # You just want # me. # Why am I obsessing about the things # I can't control? # Why am I seeking approval # from people I don't even know? # In these crazy times, I hope to find something I can cling on to # cos I need some substance in my life, # something real, something that feels true. # You better believe for you, I've cried. - # I've cried. I've cried. - # High tides. - # High tides. High tides. - # Want you so bad, but you can't fight fire with fire. - # Ah, ah, ah, ah. - # Oh-oh-oh. # I hope I learn # to get over myself. # Stop trying to be # somebody else. # Oh, I just want to love you, # love you # for free, # cos everybody wants something from me. # You just want me. # Listen, I know how low I can go. # I give as good as I get. # You get the brunt of it all # cos you're all I've got left. # Oh, I hope in time,... - # Hope in time,... - # ...we both will find peace of mind. - # ...we'll both find. # Sometimes the road less travelled # is the road best left behind. - # Ah, ah, ah, ah. - # Whoa. # I hope I learn # to get over myself. # Stop trying to be # somebody else. # Oh, I just want to love you, # love you # for free, yeah, # cos everybody wants something from me. # You just want me. - # You better believe I'm tryin'... - # Tryin'. Tryin'. - # ...to keep climbin'. - # Climbin'. Climbin'. # But the higher we climb, # feels like we're both none the wiser. # (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) - I like to think that taking the COVID injection will keep you around (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) - This next one is a golden oldie, I would say. And, um,... Yeah, it's the first time I've sung it in public since, um,... since everything went down. All right, you ready? (LAUGHTER) Ready, Eric? (ADELE'S 'SOMEONE LIKE YOU') (APPLAUSE) # I heard # that you're settled down, # that you # found a girl # and you're # married now. # I heard # that your dreams came true. # Guess she gave you things # I didn't give to you. # Old friend, # why are you so shy? # Ain't like you to hold back # or hide from the light. # I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited, but I # couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it. # I had hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded that for me, # it isn't over. # Never mind, I'll find # someone like you. # I wish nothing but the best # for you too. # Don't forget me, # I beg. # I remember you said, # 'Sometimes, it lasts in love, # 'but sometimes, it hurts instead.' # Sometimes, it lasts in love, # but sometimes, it hurts instead. # Yeah. # You know how the # time flies. # Only # yesterday # was the time of our lives. # We were born and raised # in a # summer haze, # bound by the surprise # of our glory days. # I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited, but I # couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it. # I had hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded that for me, # it isn't over, # yeah. # Never mind, I'll find # someone like you. # I wish nothing but the best # for you too. # Don't forget me, # I beg. # I remember you said, # 'Sometimes, it lasts in love, # 'but sometimes, it hurts instead.' # Yeah. # Nothing compares. No worries or cares. # Regrets and mistakes, they're memories made. # Who would have known how # bittersweet # this would taste? # Never mind, I'll find # someone like you. # I wish nothing but the best # for you too. FALSETTO: # Don't forget me, I beg. # I remember you said, MIDDLE REGISTER: # 'Sometimes, it lasts in love, # 'but sometimes, it hurts instead.' # Never mind, I'll find # someone like you. # I wish nothing but the best # for you too. # Don't forget me, # I beg. # I remember you said, # 'Sometimes, it lasts in love, # 'but sometimes, it hurts instead.' # Sometimes, it lasts in love, # but sometimes, it hurts instead. # Yeah-yeah. # (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) - ANNOUNCER: Coming up, Adele organises a special surprise. - I need every single person to be really bloody quiet. All right? (MOUTHS) - I need every single person to be really bloody quiet. All right? (MOUTHS) (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) (ADELE'S 'WHEN WE WERE YOUNG') # Everybody loves the things you do, # from the way you talk # to the way you move. # Everybody here is watching you # cos you feel like home. # You're like a dream come true. # But if by chance you're here alone, # can I have a moment # before I go? # Cos I've been by myself all night long # hoping you're someone # I used to know. # You look like a movie. # You sound like a song. # My God, this reminds me # of when we were young. # Let me photograph you in this light # in case it is the last time that we might # be exactly like we were # before we realised # we were sad of getting old, # it made us restless. # It was just like a movie. # Just like a song. # I was so scared to face my fears. # Nobody told me # that you'd be here. # And I swear you'd moved overseas, # cos that's what you said # when you left me. # You still look like a movie. # You still sound like a song. # My God, this reminds me # of when we were young. # Let me photograph you in this light # in case it is the last time # that we might be exactly like we were # before we realised # we were sad of getting old, # it made us restless. # It was just like a movie. # It was just like a song. - # When we were young. # When we were young. # When we were young. # When we were young. - # It's hard # to admit that # everything just takes me back # to when you were there, # to when you were there. # And a part of me keeps holding on # just in case it hasn't gone. # I guess I still care. # Do you still care? # It was just like a movie. # It was just like a song. # My God, this reminds me # of when we were yooooo... # oooooooo... - # When we were young. - # ...oooooooooung. - # When we were young. # When we were young. # When we were young. - # Let me photograph you in this light # in case it is the last time # that we might be exactly like we were # before we realised # we were sad of getting old, # it made us restless. # Oh, I'm so mad I'm getting old, # it makes me reckless. # It was just like a movie. # It was just like a song # when we # were young. # (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) Thank you very much. You know, erm, this is the first time` Ooh, got perched like this. I can't sit in this mermaid dress. (LAUGHTER) I feel like my whole campaign so far with me outfits is a bit 'Death Becomes Her.' (LAUGHTER) Sometimes I'm hell, and sometimes I'm mad, you know? (LAUGHTER) Anyway, this is the first time that my son has ever seen me perform. (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) And I got really, um` And he dressed up for me. It was a` I'm not gonna cry anyway. It's too soon to cry, and I don't want anyone to come fix me face. (LAUGHTER) But it's the absolute honour of my life, baby, to have you here tonight, and you look so beautiful and so handsome and smart. (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) - So many women, Adele, are going to be liberated, I think, by listening to you, because so many... women specifically choose to stay on in relationships when they know it's not working, and they do it for the kids, and I've read where you said you weren't 'miserable' miserable. - Mm-Hmm. - But you also knew you weren't happy. - Yeah. - And so you wanted to bring a happy version of yourself to your son. - Yes. - Which I think is about the best gift anybody can give to their children. - I think it's the same as,... you know, the same drive as staying in a relationship, even though you're not happy and you do it for the kids. I think it's as loving as doing that for the kids by leaving and, you know, finding your own happiness so that they really know who you are. But I'm still not fully over it of me choosing to dismantle my child's life for my own. - Mm-hmm. - It makes me very uncomfortable. - You still feel guilt? - I don't feel guilt. I just feel... somewhat selfish sometimes. But I know that I'm nearing my goal of, like, finding my happiness, like, you know? And it's been` No one ever makes me do anything I don't want, and it was just like I was really ignoring myself... - Yeah. - ...for a long time, which was wild to me when I realised it. And I knew that as an adult, Angelo would be livid with me for doing that. I knew that when he became an adult, he'd be furious at me, and I didn't want that either. But it was... It was hard work. - So this whole album is dedicated to him? - Yes. Yeah. The whole album is not about him. It's about me, and I just wanted him to hear me talking madly, deeply about who I am and how I feel, like, you know? And I don't know if I'd ever be able to have that conversation with him in real life, so therefore, he can go and listen to it. (CHUCKLES) - Well, everything on the album is certainly a starter for a great conversation. - Mm. - So does Angelo know that you are Adele? - No, apart from the other day, he watched the Easy on Me video, like, countdown to when it premiered, wherever, whatever. I didn't watch that. And he was like, 'There was, like, 150,000 people waiting,' and, like, blah, blah, blah, and he's like, 'You had all these likes,' and then he read the comments. And then he was like, 'People really like you.' So he's starting... - Starting to get it? - ...to get it a little bit, but not really. - Didn't you take him to a Taylor Swift concert and he was, like` - He loved it. - He couldn't believe that all those people were in there? - Yeah, because he used to come to my stadium shows for my rehearsals and it'd be empty. - (LAUGHS) - So he was like, 'So many people come to her shows.' (LAUGHS) But I make him leave before they all arrive. It was so cute and so funny. He loved it. Yeah. - He's never seen you perform live? - No. No. This will be his first time. - Wow. - Yeah. - Yes. Do you want more children? - I think I'm definitely open to it. I would like more children. It wouldn't be the end of the world if I don't have them because I have Angelo, but yeah, I think so. - Every mother and father has a dream for their children, and even when you have a big-access life as you do and can give your children any dreams that they can imagine, actually, I think it's more challenging to raise children who are kind and have their own ambition when they have you. - Absolutely. - So what is the dream you hold for him? - Just to be a good person, be a good and happy person. - Mm-hmm. - I don't expect anything of him. I don't care what his career is, as long as he's passionate about whatever it is that he does and that he's happy. about whatever it is that he does and that he's happy. (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) - Now, this is the big surprise, and I'm very, very excited. I hope we can pull it off. So, tonight, we've arranged... (CHUCKLES) A bit nervous in case it doesn't go well. It's also a bit ironic that I'm letting this happen to all of you. We've arranged a surprise for a lovely guy called Quentin who reached out to a now fake show asking for some help. So... Oh, I'm getting all nervous. Quentin has been with his girlfriend Ashleigh for seven years. Seven years is normally like, you know, you've either got to yes or you say no to life together. The seven-year itch. (LAUGHTER) She's a chef. She's a vegan chef. She's always at work. But tonight, Quentin told Ashleigh that they were having a date night, and so we're going to make that date night really, really memorable. So, now, earlier today, Ashleigh and Quentin were picked up in a car, and they came to this park, to Griffith Park. And at the bottom of the hill down there, they've been having a beautiful picnic pretty much all day. Quentin told Ashleigh that he's planned a small surprise to celebrate the fact that she just got her first big catering job. Also, I love a surprise. Also love dress-up. Right, so she's been` He blindfolded her. Bit kinky, but you know. (LAUGHTER) And he's given her noise-cancelling headphones so that she can't hear what we've been doing up here with this concert tonight. And even though they're in the area, she has absolutely no idea where she is and where she's going. So... I need every single person to be really bloody quiet, all right? (MOUTHS) SOFTLY: Let's turn the lights down. If you make a noise, I'm going to kill ya. WHISPERS: Right. Turn the lights down. Turn the lights down. (HELICOPTERS BUZZ OVERHEAD) - What are we doing? (CHUCKLES) Quentin? - All right. Listen. - OK. (CHUCKLES) - You're gonna take the blindfold off, OK? - When you squeeze my hand. - Yes. - Am I on grass? - Shh. - Oh, shoot. (SOFTENED LAUGHTER) (AUDIENCE GASPS) Quentin. Take it off? Take it off? Oh my God. - Babe, look at me. Look at me. Look at me. Look at me. Look at me. Look at me. - Oh my God. - Look at me. Listen. (CHUCKLES) First of all` - What are you doing? - Listen, listen. (LAUGHTER) I want to say thank you. OK? - SOBS: What are you doing? - I want to thank you for being so patient with me. - Oh, Quentin Brunson. Jesus. - Listen. Thank you for being patient with me. (BOTH LAUGH) - You're crazy, man. - I am extremely proud of you, and, I mean, every day, you blow my mind. - Oh my God. (SIGHS) - There's absolutely nothing that you cannot do, and I just know that you're going to be an amazing mother to our kids one day. - (SOBS) - And, um,... And I love you. - Is this real? - (LAUGHS) I love you, I love you, I love you, and I will continue to love you forever. Ashleigh,... - Am I awake? (LAUGHTER) Who are these people? - This is real. This is real. (LAUGHTER) - TEARFULLY: Oh my god. - Ashleigh,... - (PUFFS) All right. - It's been a long` - Thank God you didn't let me eat. I would have thrown up. (LAUGHTER) - This has been a long time coming. - Oh my God. I've been your girlfriend for so long. - Look, babe` (LAUGHTER) - Oh, my God. - Will` OK. - Oh my God. (SNIFFS) - Will you marry me, little Ashleigh? - SOBS: Oh my` In real life? - In real life. (LAUGHTER) - Yeah. - Yes? (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) - Hooray, hooray! (CHEERING, APPLAUSE CONTINUES) ('MAKE YOU FEEL MY LOVE' PLAYS FROM PIANO) Hello, Ashleigh. Hi. (LAUGHTER, APPLAUSE CONTINUES) Hi, Quentin. You all right? (LAUGHS) Go sit front row. Go sit down and enjoy the show. - Am I alive? - Thank God you said yes, because I didn't know who I was going to have sing this song to next ` you or him. (LAUGHTER) Oh my God. Look at her! She's so in shock! (CACKLES) (LAUGHTER) Oh, that was lovely. I had a little cry. OK. (EXCLAIMS) Right. Here we go. This is for you two. # When the rain is blowing in your face # and the whole world is on your case, # I could offer you a warm embrace # to make you feel my love. (APPLAUSE) # When the evening shadows and the stars appear # and there is no one there to dry your tears, # I could hold you for a million years # to make you feel my love. # I know you haven't made your mind up yet, # but I will never do you wrong. # I've known it from the moment that we met. # There's no doubt (CHUCKLES) in my mind where you belong. She's crying her eyes out. (LAUGHTER) # I'd go hungry. I'd go black and blue. # And I'd go crawling down the avenue. # Know there's nothing that I wouldn't do # to make you feel my love. # Yeah, yeah-ee. Yeah, I... (PIANO, STRINGS PLAY MELODY) # The storms are raging on the rollin' seas # and on that highway of regret. # The winds of change are blowing wild and free. # You ain't seen nothing like me yet. # I could make you happy, make your dreams come true # Nothing that I wouldn't do. # Go to the ends of this earth for you # to make you feel my love. # Lord, I... # To make you feel my... # love. # Congratulations. (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) - How do you start dating again? I mean, you can't go on a dating app. - No. - Do you, like, take advice from friends, or somebody says, 'Oh, I know somebody'? or somebody says, 'Oh, I know somebody'? - Let's go to the question everybody wants to know. - Oh. - One of the questions certainly is this whole weight thing. - Mm-hmm. - And you lost 100 pounds in two years. - Around that, yeah. - Around that ` 100 pounds in two years. - Around, yeah. And then you said it wasn't even really about the weight. - No. - So what was it about? - It was about my anxiety, mainly. I had the most terrifying anxiety attacks after I left my marriage. They paralysed me completely and made me so confused because I wouldn't be able to have any control over my body, but I knew that` I was aware of it were happening because it was like I was still very much there while my whole body was just, like, on another planet, it felt like, you know? And I've always worked out a bit ` you know, a couple of times a week for my back. Not very hard, but you know, because I've had a bad back since I was a teenager, and I started to notice, a) how much I trusted my trainer and his, like, presence when I was feeling so lost, but also that I didn't have any anxiety when I was with him at the gym. So then I sort of picked it up every day, and then I had nothing else to do, and I think it was just` it became my time ` me having a plan every day when I had no plans. I had no idea what each day was going to bring for me, but me knowing that, 'Oh, OK. At 9am, I'm going to go to the gym. OK, great. Well, that gives me some discipline. 'OK. 1pm, I'm going to go for a hike.' You know, having these sort of pins in my day helped me keep myself together. - So, you weren't even starting out trying to lose weight? - No, not at all. I wasn't worried about that at all, but in that process of having, you know, lost all of that weight, it definitely really contributed towards me getting my mind right. - It did. - And giving me the` Absolutely. - It sharpened everything. - Without a shadow of a doubt. Like, it gave me real purpose. - Interesting, because, you know, I've been through this a few times myself, and I remember the first time I dropped, you know, a lot of weight ` I think it was like 67 pounds ` people were really upset and had stuff to say, and, actually, in many ways felt like I had abandoned them or something. - Yeah. - And lots of people are talking about your weight, being all in your business about it. - Yeah. - I want to know, what has the experience of losing this been like for you, and also people's reaction to it? - I'm not shocked or even fazed by it, because my body has been objectified my entire career. - Mm. - I'm either too big, I'm either too small. Like, you know, I'm either hot or I'm either not, like, whatever. I never looked up to anyone because of their body, you know? I never admired anyone because they had the same hair colour as me or the same style as me, or, you know, whatever, so` - Or were the same weight as you. - Never. Never, ever, ever. - And when you were heavier, you were fine. - I was, and I was body positive then, and I'm body positive now. But it's not my job to validate how people feel about their bodies. - Whoo. - And I feel bad that, you know, it's made anyone feel horrible about themselves, but that's not my job, and I can't... I'm trying to sort my own life out. You know, I can't` - (LAUGHS) (CHUCKLES) I can't have another worry and another thing to try and nail. I can't. Like, you know, and... - I got that. I love that. I love that. - Yeah. And, you know, my weight might fluctuate now that I can't work out as much and I'm on set all day. You know, I'm eating, but I don't care if I put on weight. I don't care if I lose it again. It's not about that. As long as, like, my muscle memory doesn't go through when I'm lifting my weights, which is, like, my favourite place to be. - Lifting weights? - Love it. I love it. - OK. What's the highest weight you can press now? - Well, at the moment, my back's been bad, but last summer, when I was at my` I was at my peak of being able to` Like, I felt like I could've been in the Olympics. I remember saying to my trainers all the time, 'I'm going to get an Olympic Gold Medal next.' - (CHUCKLES) - I was like, you know. It was` We were getting to, like` On a deadlift, we were getting up to, like, 160, 170. Yeah, I love it. But it started out at 10 pounds. It started at 10 pounds when I first started lifting. - I am... Wow. - Oh no, I'm an athlete. I'm actually an athlete, like, I'm not even boasting. Even the proportions of my body, I should have been an athlete if only at school, I hadn't discovered boys and someone had told me to go and do a bit more PE. - Wow. 160. Wow. - Yeah, I love it, but I have to eat quite a lot of food to lift the weights I lift. - So you eat... - I eat. Oh, yeah. - ...what you want to eat? - I had Chinese last night. - OK. - Yeah, we found the best McDonald's recently. It's piping hot every time. - (LAUGHS) - No, I do. I love it. I just` I'm haven't got much of a sweet tooth though. - Yeah, I don't either. Yeah. - Yeah, I'd rather a sandwich. - Deadlifting 160, this girl. - Yeah. - She's an athlete. - I'm also a very good boxer. I've got a left hook that could kill ya. - Really? - Oh yeah. I'm a very good boxer. - I'd be scared. (BOTH LAUGH) - Another new song on the album is titled 'Hold On'. The lyrics to this song are so brutally honest. Sounds like you were in the dark, dark, dark hours there. 'I swear to God,' you say. 'I'm such a mess. 'The harder that I try, I regress. I am my own worst enemy. 'Right now, I truly hate being me. 'Every day feels like the road I'm on might just open up and swallow me whole. 'How do I feel so mighty small when I'm struggling to feel at all?' - Mm. - Girl, you can write. - Oh! Thank you. - You can write. - Thank you. - So what was going on there? What was happening? How did you keep the faith when you were at your lowest point? What were you holding on to? The question is what were you holding on to? - My friends always would say hold on when I would feel like how I'm, you know, the lyrics in the verse. - Mm-Hmm. - But it was just exhausting trying to... to, like, keep going with it. It's a process ` the process of a divorce, the process of, you know, being a single parent. The process of not seeing your child every single day wasn't really a plan that I had, you know, when I became a mum. The process of arriving for yourself every single day, turning up for yourself every single day and still running a home, running a business ` like, so many people know what I'm talking about and it can` I feel like that as well. I juggle those things as well. And it just` I felt like not doing it any more, and also trying to, like,... move forward, like,... but, like with intention, not just trying to get out of it for no reason. Made my feet hurt, walking through all of that concrete. (BOTH CHUCKLE) You know, I never questioned whether I'd made a bad decision. I never, ever did, which I'm very grateful for that I never asked myself as questions, but it was just like, maybe it would have been better had I just kept my mouth shut, you know? And carried on. - Mm. - You know, just in terms of hurting two people that I love the most in the world. You know? (ADELE'S 'HOLD ON') - # Love # will soon come. # Just hold, # hold on. - # Oh, what have I done yet again? # Have I not learned anything? # I don't want to live # in chaos. # It's like a ride that I want to get off. # It's hard to hold on to # who I am # when I'm stumbling in the dark for a hand. # I am so tired # of battling # with myself, with no chance to win. - # Hold # on. - # Let time be patient. - # You # are still strong. - # Let pain be gracious. - # Love... - (VOCALISES) - # ...will soon come. - # Just hold, # hold on. # I swear to God, I am # such a mess. # The harder that I try, I regress. # I'm my own worst # enemy. # Right now, # I truly hate being me. # Every day, it feels like # the road I'm on # might just open up # and swallow me whole. # How do I feel so # mighty small # when I'm struggling to feel at all? # Just hold... - # Hold... - # ...on. - # ...on. # Let time be patient. # You... - # You... - # ...are still strong. - # ...are still strong. # Let pain be gracious. (VOCALISES) # Oh, I... # Just hold,... - # You, just hold on. # You, just hold on. - # ...hold on. - # You, just hold on. # Just hold on. - # Sometimes, loneliness # is the only rest # we get. - # Just hold on. Just hold on. - # And the emptiness # actually lets # us forget. - # Just hold on. Just hold on. # Sometimes, forgiveness # is easiest # in secret. - # Just hold on. Just hold on. - # So just hold... - # Just hold on. Just hold on. - # ...on. # Whoo, # ooh. # Let time be patient. (VOCALISES) - # You # are still strong - # Let pain be gracious. # Love # will soon come, baby # if you just hold on. # Hold on. Hold on. # Hold on. Hold oh-whoa-on. # Just let time be patient. - # You... - # Cos you're still strong. # I'm still strong. - # ...are still strong. - # Just be gracious. # Cos love # will soon come # if you just hold on. # Mmmmm. - # Ooh, just hold on. # Ooh, just hold on. - # Just be patient. # Just be patient. - # Ooh, just hold on. # You just hold on. # You just hold on. # Just hold on. Just hold on. # - Whoo. (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) Ooh. Thank you. Hello, cheeky. # We could have had it all... - NARRATOR: Coming up next,... - # ...rolling in the deep. - With all the therapy you've done, you know that, certainly at this stage, that you end up until you can get it right` this is what I say to all my girls in school ` that whatever the biggest wound of your life is from your parents, that you end up choosing relationships to try to heal those wounds. - Yeah. - So what do you think the deep wound from the past, from you as a little girl growing up, you're trying to heal as you reach for your relationships as an adult woman? - My dad's absolute lack of presence and effort with me. But, you know, as I got older, I definitely understood that it was the alcohol. It wasn't a choice that he was necessarily making in himself that he didn't want to step up for me` - But when you're little, you don't know that. - When you're little, you don't know, especially when he's like, 'I'm drinking juice.' - Yes. - So I'm like, 'Oh, I drink juice.' Like, you know, you don't know the sort of effects of it. But yeah, like, when someone that you love so much and the more that you feel like they don't love you, you love them even more ` like, I was definitely always trying to fill that void. But at the same time, I would expect it to hurt at some point, so I would hurt them first. You know, not in a malicious way. It wasn't malicious. It was just like I had absolutely zero expectations of anybody because I never` I learned not to have them` - Because you'd been let down so many times. - Yeah. So by having, you know, zero expectations, I wouldn't arrive for them either. Like, you know, and I'd feed off this energy, so they'd be like, 'Well, why would I, like, go beyond and make that effort with you 'when, a) you don't seem to want me to, and b) you're not doing it?' You know? So it was definitely, definitely that. And then during the, you know, the sort of the last two or three years of my life, my dad got really sick, and it was interesting that that... happened during` just after having left my marriage, when I'd already made the conscious decision to get to know myself and figure some things out. And... not that long ago, it was back in April when my dad died and we had our peace together. - Mm-hmm. - I felt that huge gaping hole fill. Like, you know? - Really? - Just, we forgave each other because, you know, I said hurtful things. I did nothing as bad as what he did, though, to be honest with you ` like, you know, if you add it all up throughout my whole life. But I definitely, like, snapped in the press and stuff like that at him, which definitely hurt his feelings, of course. But we found our peace together, and then... - You played the album for him. - I played the album to him on Zoom. Yeah. Yeah. - Was that healing for both of you? What did you learn from it? - When we met up when I heard he was ill, I went to go and see him in Wales, and I wanted to play him 'To Be Loved.' My main goal in life is to be loved and love, you know? And so I wanted to play it to my dad, being like, 'You're the reason I haven't done that yet,' because he definitely was the reason. He was the reason I hadn't fully accessed what it is to be, like, in a loving, loving relationship with somebody ` like, 360, you know? - Mm-hmm. - And he couldn't` He was like, 'I've only ever heard Hometown Glory.' So I'm like, 'What?' That's the first thing I ever wrote when I was, like, 16. And he was like, 'It's too painful.' - He's never heard anything other than Hometown` - He never listened. He would switch it off and he never, ever played any of my other music, he said. So I force him to listen, and it's, like, we both cry and stuff like that, and then... So, that` Him sort of really understanding my child wound through my song was amazing for me and him. And again, I think he could listen to me sing it, but not say it. We're very similar like that. And then when I played him the album, it was just` By then, he'd listened to all of 19, all of 21, all of 25, and my mum was helping to look after him towards the end as well. And his favourites were all of my favourites, you know? Which I thought was amazing. And he wished that he'd done what I had been doing for myself, you know? Like, the journey` - Working on himself. The journey. - Yeah. He wished he'd done it. Yeah. And he was proud of me for doing it, so it was very, very healing. But when he died, it was just` literally, it was like the wound closed up, and I've been so open, you know? - Didn't your therapist at one point say you need to sit with the 7-year-old Adele? - Yeah. - And when you did that ` sat with the 7-year-old Adele ` what did you find? - Um,... A very sad, little girl. (CHUCKLES) - Mm. - No! You're gonna try to make me cry! - No, I'm not! No, I'm not! - (LAUGHS) No. Yeah, it was. She was sad, but also, you know, she was willing. Willing. Willing to get out and run. - Look at what she did. Look at what she did. - I said I wouldn't stay in there. I said that. - Look at what she did. - When I was little, I was like, 'I'm not staying here. 'This is not what this life is. I'm in the wrong place. I've been sent to the wrong place.' I said I wasn't staying there and I left. - Yeah, that's the thing is to look back on who you were and what you've come through, and all of that is what allowed this ` to be sitting in this chair right now. - And then you learn to appreciate all the things that you did have to go through, because it's a part` it might not have gotten to where you are, you know? And I'm sure I've got many more mountains to climb that will come my way, and I'm sure I'll have another little, like, you know, like, swerve, you know, swerve out of the way for something and stuff like that, but I feel like I'll get better at it every time something comes up. - Every time. (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) - # There's a fire starting in my heart, # reaching a fever pitch, and it's bringing me out the dark. # Finally, I can see you crystal clear. # Go ahead and sell me out and I'll lay your ... bare. # See how I'll leave with every piece of you. # Don't underestimate the things that I will do. # There's a fire starting in my heart, # reaching a fever pitch, and it's bringing me out the dark. # The scars of your love # remind me of us. # They keep me thinking that we almost had it all. # The scars of your love, they leave me breathless. # I can't help feeling # we could've had it all. - # You're gonna wish you # never had met me. - # Rolling in the deep. - # Tears are gonna fall. # Rolling in the deep. - # You had my heart inside... - # You're gonna wish you... - # ...of your hands. - # ...never had met me. - # And you played it... - # Tears are gonna fall. - # ...to the beat. - # Rolling in the deep. - # Yeah-eh. # So... # Baby, I have no story to be told. # But I've heard one on you, # now I'm gonna make your head burn. # Think of me in the depths of your despair. # Make a home down there, as mine won't be shared. You can dance if you want. # The scars of your love # remind me of us. - # Tears are gonna fall. - # They keep me thinking that we almost had it all. - # Rolling in the deep. - # You're gonna wish you... - # The scars of your love, - # ...never had met me. - # they leave me breathless. - # Tears are gonna fall. - # I can't help feeling we could've had it all. - # You're gonna wish you # never had met me. - # Rolling in the deep. - # Tears are gonna fall. # Rolling in the deep. - # You had my heart inside... - # You're gonna wish you... - # of your hands, - # ...never had met me. - # but you played it... - # Tears are gonna fall. - # ...to the beat. - # Rolling in the deep. - # You could've had it all. # Rolling in the deep. # You had my heart inside # of your hand. # But you played it # with a beating. Here we go! # Throw your soul through every open door. - # Ooh, whoa, oh. - # Count your blessings to find what you look for. - # Whoa-oh. - # Turn my sorrow into treasured gold. - # Ooh, whoa, oh. - # You'll pay me back in kind and reap just what you sow. - # You're gonna wish you - # never had met me. - # We could've had it all. - # Tears are gonna fall. # Rolling in the deep. - # We could've had it all. - # You're gonna wish you # never had met me. - # It all, it all, it all. - # Tears are gonna fall. - # We could've had it all. - # You're gonna wish you # never had met me. - # Rolling in the deep. - # Tears are gonna fall. # Rolling in the deep. - # You had my heart inside... - # You're gonna wish you... - # ...of your hands. - # ...never had met me. - # And you played it... - # Tears are gonna fall. - # ...to the beat. - # Rolling in the deep. - # You could've had this all. - # You're gonna wish you # never had met me. - # Rolling in the deep. - # Tears are gonna fall. # Rolling in the deep. - # You had my heart inside... - # You're gonna wish you... - # ...of your hands. - # ...never had met me. - # But you played it, you played it, you played it, # you played me to the beat. # (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) Oh, thank you! Well done! Look at that ` standing up. Thank you. That's me only fast one, you see. (LAUGHTER) So I know the urge. It really kicks in when you` when a fast song come on with me. You better dance while you can. (LAUGHTER) You better dance while you can. (LAUGHTER) - So how do you start dating again? I mean, you can't go on a dating app. - No. Do you, like, take advice from friends or somebody says, 'Oh, I know somebody'? Like, how did you meet Rich Paul? - I met him at a birthday party. We were on the dancefloor. And I met him, and then a couple of years later, we went out for dinner, which he says was a business meeting. I'm like, 'A business meeting about what?' - (LAUGHS) - We wouldn't be having a bus` a meeting about business. And then it was just the first time we'd hung out only on our own and not with other friends and stuff like that. So that was a very natural way` I think that's how people would normally meet each other ` like, in real life. - Mm-hmm. What was it about him that drew you to him? I mean, we all know he's this super agent, and` - Yeah. He's just hilarious. - He's also hilarious? - Oh, he's so funny. - OK. - No, he's hilarious. - OK. - And very smart. You know, he's very, very smart. It's quite incredible watching him do what he does, and just the easiness of it. It's just been very smooth. - He's making it easy on you. - He's making it easy on me. I'm blushing. He's right up there. - (LAUGHS) - (PUFFS) - OK. So this relationship with super agent Rich Paul ` I can't say his name without saying, 'Super Agent Rich Paul.' - (LAUGHS) - This relationship is the first time you've actually... - Loved myself and been open to loving and being loved by someone else. Yeah. - So Rich is getting a different Adele than everybody else has gotten? - Yeah. But by arriving and turning up, you know,... - yeah. - ...maybe I'm getting a different version of him and all. Who knows? It's just timing. It's just timing. But it'd be interesting to see what my reaction is like in general to anything that hurts me now that I feel so secure in myself, and I'm talking outside of romance as well. Like, I'm just talking about in any scenario. - Yeah. - It'll be interesting to see how close I let it come to me. - So... Do you think you'll be able to write from a happy space? - Oh, I hope so. I hope so. Yeah. - But the music will change? - Like,... Like, Love Is` You know, the last song on the album. - Love Is A Game. - Yeah, it's about love. - Here's some of the lyrics. 'Love is a game for fools to play, and I ain't foolin'. 'What a cruel thing to self-inflict that pain.' And I wanted to know ` are you, Adele, getting better at this game of love? - Yeah, I think so, because I don't, um,... I don't treat it like a game anymore. You know, that thing of, 'You're going to hurt me, so I'm going to hurt you first' ` I certainly am not like that anymore. - You know, one of the things I think is so valuable in knowing how to move forward in your life is having clarity on what it is you really want. - Mm-hmm. And when you` - And what you like. - Yes, and what you like, but mostly knowing in the spirit and soul of yourself, what is it you really want? Because that's how you start to join that to yourself. And do you know what that is ultimately? What do you really want? - Peace of mind. - Just peace of mind? - Just peace of mind. - OK. - Um, and stability. But I can` I don't have to expect someone else to give me stability. I can also be stable for myself, be a solid house that doesn't blow over in a storm. - Mm-hmm. Well, the best thing you said here in this interview, as far as I'm concerned, is that now you're in a relationship where, for the first time, your love for yourself comes first. - Yeah. - And all great things come after that ` I know that. - A quote I had as well while on my journey was, 'If you're not feeling everything, you're missing everything.' That sort of gave me permission to really do that during the process, you know? And not be upset. - This has been great. Thanks for coming to the Rose Garden. - I can't believe we just had a chat. - We had a little chat. - It's wild. - Thanks for letting me come to the concert. - Oh my gosh, I'm so excited. - It's going to be so great. - I hope you like it. - And I wish you all the things your heart desires. - Oh, thanks. Me too. - That's my prayer for you. - Thank you. - All the things your heart desires, and still good music from the happy space. - (LAUGHS) - OK? - Yeah, for sure. Thank you very much. - Well done. (ADELE'S 'LOVE IS A GAME') # All your expectations # of my love # are impossible. # Surely you know # that I'm not easy to hold. # It's so sad # how incapable # of learning to grow # I am. # My heart # speaks in puzzle and codes # I've been trying # my whole life to solve. # God only knows # how I've cried. # I can't # take another defeat. # A next time # would be the ending of me # now that I see-ee-ee-ee-ee # that love # is a game for fools # to play, # and I ain't foolin'. - # Foolin'. - # What a cruel thing... - # Cruel thing. # ...to self-inflict that pain. # Love # is a game for fools # to play, # and I ain't foolin'. - # Foolin'. - # What a cruel thing... - # Cruel thing. - # ...to self-inflict that pain. - # How unbelievable... - # Unbelievable. - # ...of me to fall # for the lies that I tell. - # Lies I tell. - # The dream that I sell. - # Dream I sell. # When heartache, # it's inevitable. - # It's inevitable. - # But I'm no good # at doing it well, # not that I care. - # I don't care. - # Why should anything about it be fair # when love # is a game for fools # to play? # And I ain't fooling. - # Fooling. - # What a cruel thing... - # Cruel thing. # ...to self-inflict that pain. # Love # is a game for fools # to play, # and I ain't fooling again. - # Fooling. - # What a cruel thing... - # Cruel thing. - # ...to self-inflict that pain. # No amount of love # can keep me satisfied. - # Satisfied. Satisfied. - # I can't keep up... - # Can't keep up. Can't keep up. - # ...when I keep changing my mind. - # Change my mind. Change my mind. - # The feelings flood me # to the heights of no # compromise. # Love # is a game for fools # to play, # and I ain't fooling. - # Fooling. - # What a cruel thing... - # Cruel thing. - # ...to self-inflict that pain. # Love # is a game for fools # to play, # and I ain't fooling again. - # Fooling. - # What a cruel thing... - # Cruel thing. # ...to self-inflict... # that pain. - # Ah. # Ah-ah. # Ah, ah. # Ah. # Ah. - Right. - # Ah, ah, ah, ah. - So, the biggest lesson I learned ` it's all on this album ` is you can't control bloody anything, so just go with it, just stick with it, have a laugh, and enjoy all of it, all right? (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) Thank you for coming tonight. Give it up for my band. (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) Give it up for the beautiful orchestra. (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) Give it up for yourselves, all the crew. Here's to real music. Here's to live music. Here's to real artistry as well, all right? (APPLAUSE) Thank you for coming. Thank you for sticking with me, especially everyone that knows me, cos I've been a bit hard to hang on to at times. ('LOVE IS A GAME' CONTINUES) # I can love. - # Ah. # I can lo-oo-oo-ove aga-a-ain. # I love me now, # like I loved then. # I'm a fool for that. # Now-ow, you kno-ow you're gonna do it. # Oh, oh, oh, oh. - # Ah. - # I'd do it all # again, # like I did then, # cos I'm addicted, # I'm addicted. # You know I'm gonna do it # again. # (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) Thank you. ('LOVE IS A GAME' RESUMES) (CHEERING, APPLAUSE CONTINUES) Captions by Cameron Grigg. Captions were made with the support of NZ On Air. www.able.co.nz Copyright Able 2021 - ADELE: # Cos I'm addicted. # I'm addicted. # You know I'm gonna do it # again. #