“I got some of the worst ingrown hairs I’ve ever had in my life,” she replies. Twelve minutes in: I tell her that when lockdown lifted, I felt like an Edie emerging from Grey Gardens. “Whispering Angel turned me into a barking dog. “My first emergency run at the grocery store was for Whispering Angel and ketchup,” Adele says, referring to her favorite rosé.
Whereas I did that the year before.”Įleven minutes in: Back on the subject of alcohol and lockdown. “They had to face themselves in isolation. They have a nine-year-old son, Angelo.) “Everyone had to face a lot of their demons, because they had so much time on their hands with nothing to distract them,” she says. (Adele was married to the charity executive Simon Konecki for two years. Adele responds that much of the emotional stuff her friends went through, she’d gone through the year before, in the middle of her divorce. Nine and a half minutes in: I ask if COVID took an emotional toll. “All these other people have come out saying that they trained me,” she says. Six minutes in: Adele says that she has probably spent more time with Miele in the last three years than anyone else. She nods and says: “It got earlier and earlier, the drinking.” Three and a half minutes in: While going hard on the elliptical, Adele remarks, “I’m always a bit hungover on Monday morning.” Lockdown turned me into a seven-nights-a-week wine drinker, I tell her.
