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Good evening, everyone. I'm Oprah Winfrey.
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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 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]
["Hello" playing]
♪
[cheering 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]
♪ 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♪
♪ Anymore♪
♪ 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♪
♪ I must've called a thousand times♪
♪ 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 anymore♪
♪ Highs, highs, highs, highs♪
♪ Lows, lows, lows, lows♪
♪ Anymore♪
♪ Highs, highs, highs, highs♪
-[vocalizing] -♪ Lows, lows, lows, lows♪
♪ Anymore♪
♪ Highs, highs, highs, highs♪
-[vocalizing] -♪ Lows, lows, lows, lows♪
♪ Anymore♪
♪ Highs, highs, highs, highs♪
-♪ Anymore♪ -♪ Lows, lows, lows, lows♪
♪ Hello from the other side♪
♪ 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♪
♪ Anymore.♪
[cheering]
[Adele and Oprah laughing]
-Hello. Okay. -Hello. Okay. Hi.
-This is so good. -Oh. Yes.
-Hello. -Hi.
No. Hi. We can't even
-say hello anymore. -Hi. Yeah. Yeah.
I don't really say hello anymore. That's why.
-You don't? -Not really.
'Cause it's like a joke.
[both laughing]
Okay, well, hi, Adele.
-Hiya. -Hiya.
Welcome to my rose garden.
-ADELE: It's lovely, it's beautiful. -Well,
thank you for coming to join me here.
ADELE: It feels very British.
-OPRAH: Does it? -ADELE: Yes.
Well, actually because yes,
-and because my tea house is here. -Yes.
OPRAH: 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. -Yes.
-And you start with "Hello." -Yes. Well, I think
I'm always going to have to start with "Hello."
I think it'd be weird if it was, like, halfway through a set.
-[Oprah laughs] -You know? So yeah, I'm starting with it.
Okay, so that music video has been viewed nearly
-3 billion times. -3 billion?
-3 billion times! -Oh, I didn't know that.
-Billion, that's insane. -Yeah.
♪ Hello from the outside♪
OPRAH: That song means so much to people all around the world.
ADELE: It does, yeah.
So, what does it represent to you?
Well, the show is the first time that I'll, you know,
that I'm singing it from where I am now.
-Yes. -Which I think is great.
Um, the song to me was the beginning of me
trying to find myself and I haven't figured out yet
what it was that 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, sort of like, "Hi, I'm still here. I still exist,
like, 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 realize
-I was feeling or thinking." -Mm-hmm.
So, is that how the music comes to you?
-Is that a part of your process? -Yeah.
Is the music as catharsis?
Yeah, it 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-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-there's
something I'm pulling from somewhere else.
I don't, I don't have some-- you know, something else
from underneath. I don't know what it is.
It's coming up through me but it's not...
I don't know how I access it. It's wild 'cause
I don't think I'm that deep in real life. [laughs]
-So it's... -But then you listen to the music
-and you think deep, right? -Yeah. Yeah,
you know, or I'll just be like,
"I am making progress," or like, just...
It's-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-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... -Yeah, absolutely.
...that if you make the wrong move, you say the wrong thing...
-Yeah. -...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 any situations and I would like to do,
you know, the same for people
that feel so alone when they're feeling something.
Mm-hmm.
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, three years behind closed doors.
So I'm not frightened about...
about what people may or might not do now, you know.
[cheering]
Hi, guys.
[cheering]
-How posh is this? -[laughter]
Also, get you, Lizzo.
You think you can outshine me, babes?
I love that, I love that poncho coat.
Oh, yeah. Nice.
Um, 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.
Um, but I wanted to feel safe
in my first little comeback thing.
Hang on, I 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.
And I'm gonna do some old ones for you.
I'm gonna do some new ones for you.
[cheering]
So I haven't sung this. This is a new song.
I haven't sung this song yet for anyone.
Um, not in real life.
I'm [bleep] myself.
Not gonna lie.
Um, so I could use your help if any of you know it.
This is "Easy on Me."
[cheering]
♪
♪ 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 our things to change♪
♪ When we are both so deeply stuck in our ways♪
♪ You can't deny♪
♪ How hard I've 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 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♪
♪ I had no time to choose♪
♪ What I chose to do♪
♪ So go easy♪
♪ On me.♪
♪
[song ends]
-Thank you. -[cheering]
[cheering]
["Skyfall" playing]
♪
♪ This is the end♪
♪ Hold your breath and count to ten♪
♪ 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♪
♪ Face it all together♪
♪ Let the sky fall♪
♪ When it crumbles♪
♪ We will stand tall♪
♪ Face it all together♪
♪ 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♪
♪ 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♪
♪ 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♪
♪ 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♪ -♪ Face it all♪
♪ Together, at skyfall♪
♪ Let the sky fall♪
♪ We will stand tall♪
♪ At skyfall♪
[holding note]
[cheering]
♪ Ooh.♪
[song ends]
[cheering]
You lost a hundred pounds in two years.
And then you said it wasn't even really about the weight.
-No. -So what was it about?
OPRAH: So here's the thing.
You write about it in song after song.
You start with, you know,
"Easy on Me" that-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 the 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, like, you know. -Right.
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... -Ah...
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?
So, 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'd call a friend,
and be like, "Do you wanna go out?
-What do you wanna do?" -Yeah.
Put a movie on or whatever. I would just sit with it.
-I would just eat it myself. -Yeah, no, absolutely,
but I would just, I would just
whenever I noticed how I was feeling, I would
sit down and I would sit in it.
Um, I stopped drinking.
That's one great way of, um, 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.
-Mm-hmm. Yeah. -I read where you said that
alcohol really fascinated you.
Yeah. Yeah, very much.
Yeah, 'cause it took my dad from 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.
Um, not at the beginning. At first I-- whew, no.
I think I probably kept the alcohol industry alive.
But you know, after-- once I realized 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 centered.
Was there a moment when you knew?
Or was it a series of things that you said,
"Can't do this anymore"?
With my-my journey or in...?
With the divorce from Simon. Like,
because I-I, you know,
over the years I've interviewed 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-- we were 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, 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-on 25,
which was, "I want to live and not just survive."
-Mm-hmm. -And, um,
you know, I've definitely felt like that,
but it was when I, 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, us having our wedding,
and I-- you know, I take marriage very seriously.
-Like, it obviously seems like... -Yeah, 'cause you have
-all that stuff from the past. -Yeah, and it seems like I don't,
you know, now-- like, you know, almost like I disrespected it
by-by getting married, and then, you know,
divorced so quickly and stuff like that.
But I think...
Are embarrassed because it was so quickly?
I'm just embarrassed that I didn't make my marriage work.
-Okay. -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 have been able to give me,
like, especially at that time in my life-- I was so young
and I just, I think I would have got a bit lost in all of it.
Like, you know, and I think I probably,
I could have easily gone down some dodgy paths,
like, you know?
And sort of self-destructed from-from
sort of like being so overwhelmed by all of it.
And he-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... -Mm-hmm.
...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 anymore?"
Yeah, that was really hard as well, and trying to explain
to, like, a six-year-old at the time, obviously,
um, that I do love him, I'm just not in love with him.
Makes absolutely no sense to a six-year-old.
Like, you know?
So there were so many answers I just
couldn't give him 'cause there aren't any really.
Like, you know, that he would understand,
but he sees that I still love his dad.
-Like, you know... -'Cause you live across the street from each other.
We live across the street from each other. Like, 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 and...
So you're still friends?
-Oh, yes. -It's all...
-100%. Yeah, yeah. -100%.
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? -Yeah.
I mean, we don't sit around and talk about it
like, "How you feeling?" Like, you know,
"Easy on Me" is at 40 million streams, how are you feeling?
-Like... we don't talk about it. -[laughs]
But, um, he knows I'm, you know, he knows
what kind of artist I am, like,
and, you know, that I got to--
I have to dig deep and tell my stories.
["I Drink Wine" playing]
♪
♪ How can 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♪
♪ 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 trying♪
-♪ Trying♪ -♪ To keep climbing♪
-♪ Climbing♪ -♪ But the higher we climb♪
♪ Feels like we're both none the wiser♪
[vocalizing]
♪ 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♪
♪ 'Cause I need some substance in my life♪
♪ Something real, something that feels true♪
♪ You better believe for you I've cried♪
♪ High tides♪
♪ I want you so bad♪
♪ But you can't fight fire with fire♪
[vocalizing]
♪ 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♪
♪ 'Cause 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♪
♪ 'Cause you're all I've got♪
♪ Left♪
♪ Oh, I hope in time♪
♪ We both will find peace of mind♪
♪ Sometimes the road less traveled♪
♪ Is a road best left behind♪
[vocalizing]
♪ Oh, I hope I learn♪
♪ To get over myself♪
♪ Stop trying to be♪
♪ Somebody else♪
♪ So I just want to love you♪
♪ Love you for free, yeah♪
♪ 'Cause everybody wants something from me♪
♪ You just want me♪
♪ You better believe I'm trying♪
♪ Trying♪
♪ To keep climbing♪
-♪ Climbing♪ -♪ But the higher we climb♪
♪ Feels like we're both none the wiser.♪
[song ends]
[cheering]
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? Ready, Eric? -[laughter]
["Someone Like You" playing]
♪ 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 it 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 yet♪
♪ 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♪
♪ Don't forget me, I beg♪
♪ I remember you said♪
♪ 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.♪
[cheering]
ANNOUNCER: Coming up, Adele organizes a special surprise.
I need every single person to be really bloody quiet.
All right? [mouthing]
[cheering]
["When We Were Young" playing]
♪
♪ Everybody loves the things you do♪
♪ From the way you talk♪
♪ To the way you move♪
♪ Everybody here is watching you♪
♪ 'Cause 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?♪
♪ 'Cause 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 realized♪
♪ 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♪
♪ 'Cause 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 realized♪
♪ 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♪
♪ It's hard to admit that♪
♪ Everything just takes me back♪
♪ 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 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 realized♪
♪ 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]
Thank you very much.
You know, um...
this is the first time-- I got to perch like this
since I can't sit in this mermaid dress.
[laughter]
I feel like my whole campaign so far with my outfits
is a bit Death Becomes Her.
Sometimes I'm Hel and sometimes I'm Mad, you know.
Anyway, this is the first time that my son
has ever seen me perform.
-[cheering] -And I got really--
Oh, and he dressed up for me.
It was-- I'm not gonna cry. Anyway, it's too...
it's too soon to cry and I don't want anyone to come fix my face.
But, um, it's the absolute honor of my life, baby,
to have you here tonight.
And you look so beautiful, and so handsome and smart.
[cheering]
OPRAH: 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 miserablemiserable,
-but you also knew you weren't happy. -Yeah.
And so, you wanted to bring a happy version
-of yourself to your son. -Mm-hmm.
-Yes. -Which I think is about
the best gift anybody can give to their children.
I think, 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-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.
...makes me very uncomfortable.
You still feel guilt?
I don't feel guilt, I just feel...
somewhat selfish sometimes, but, like, I-I know that
I'm-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--
but I was really ignoring myself.
-Yeah. -For a long time, which was wild to me
when I realized it; and I knew
that as an adult, Angelo would be livid
-with me for doing that. -Mm-hmm.
I knew that when he became an adult,
that he'd be furious at me and I didn't want that, either.
But it was, it was, it was hard work.
So, this whole album is dedicated to him.
Yes. Yeah, and the whole album
is not about him, it's about me.
And I just wanted for him to hear me
talking mad-- 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.
Well, everything on the album is certainly a starter
for a great conversation.
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.
-Yeah. -Wherever, whatever. I didn't watch that.
And, um, he was like, "There was, like,
150,000 people waiting," and, like, blah-blah-blah.
And he was like, "You had all these likes."
And then he read the comments and then...
he was like, "People really like you."
Like, so he's-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 would be empty.
He was like, "So many people come to her shows."
[laughs] But I'd 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'm-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,
'cause 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, accessed life as you do,
and can give your children any dreams that
-they can imagine... -Yeah.
...actually I think
it's more challenging to raise children
who are kind and have their own ambition...
-Yeah. Absolutely. -...when they have you.
So, what is the dream you hold for him?
Just to be a good person, be a good and happy person.
That's it. 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.
[cheering]
So now this is the big surprise and I'm very, very excited.
I hope we can pull it off.
So, tonight we've arranged...
I'm a bit nervous in case it doesn't go well.
It's also a bit ironic that I'm-- that I'm
letting this happen tonight. We've arranged a surprise
for a lovely guy called Quentin,
who reached out to a, now, fake show asking for some help,
so... whew, make me all nervous.
Quentin has been with his girlfriend Ashley
for seven years.
Seven years is, like, normally like, you know,
you either say yes or you say no to, like, life together.
Seven-year itch.
She's a chef-- she's a vegan chef.
She's always at work, but tonight Quentin told Ashley
that they were having a date night and so
we're going to make that date night really,
really memorable. So now, earlier today
Ashley 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 Ashley 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--
blindfolded her-- bit kinky but you know--
and he's given her noise-canceling headphones
so that she can't hear what we've been doing up here,
this concert tonight.
And even though they're in the area,
she has absolutely no idea where she is
or where she's going, so...
I need every single person to be really bloody quiet.
All right?
[mouthing]
Let's turn the lights down. If you, if you
make a noise, I'm going to kill you.
[whispering]: Turn the lights down.
What are we doing, Quentin?
-All right, listen. -[laughs]: Okay.
Take the blindfold off, okay?
When you squeeze my hand?
-Yes. -Am I on grass?
-Shh. -Oh, shoot.
[soft laughter]
Quentin...
Take it off? Take it off?
-Oh... -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... Listen. -What are you doing?
Listen, I want to say thank you, okay?
What are you doing?
I want to thank you for being so patient
-with me. -Oh, Quentin Brunson...
Listen, thank you for being patient with me.
-Um... -[both laugh]
-You're crazy, man. -I am extremely proud of you.
And, I mean, every day you blow my mind.
Oh, my God. Where are we?
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.
[laughs]
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. Ashley...
ASHLEY: Am I awake?
[laughter]
-Who are these people? -This is real. This is real.
[laughter]
-Oh, my God. -Ashley.
-All right. -It's been...
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.
-Well, babe... -[laughter]
-Oh, my God. -Will-- Okay.
Oh, my God. [sniffles]
Will you marry me, little Ashley?
-In real life? -In real life.
[laughter]
-Yeah. -Yes?
[cheering]
Oy, oy!
♪
Hello, Ashley. Hi.
[laughter]
Hi, Quentin. You all right?
[applause]
Go sit front row. Go... go sit down and enjoy the show.
Am I alive?
Thank God she said yes, 'cause I didn't know
who I was going to have to sing this song to next,
you or him.
Oh, my God, look at her--
she's so in shock.
Ha ha!
[laughter]
Oh, that was lovely-- a little cry.
Okay... [exhaling]
All right, here we go. This is for you two.
["Make You Feel My Love" playing]
♪
♪ 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♪
♪ 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 would never do you wrong♪
♪ I've known it from the moment that we met♪
♪ No doubt in my mind where you belong♪
She's cryin' her eyes out.
♪ I'd go hungry, I'd go black and blue♪
♪ And I'd go crawling down the avenue♪
♪ No, there's nothing that I wouldn't do♪
♪ To make you feel my love♪
♪ Yeah♪
♪
♪ The storms are raging on♪
♪ The rollin' seas♪
♪ And on the highway of regret♪
♪ The winds of change are blowing♪
♪ Wild and free♪
♪ You ain't seen nothing like me yet♪
♪ I can 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]
OPRAH: How do you start dating again?
I mean, you can't go on a dating app. Do you, like...
-No. -...take advice from friends
or somebody says, "Oh, I know somebody"?
OPRAH: 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
-a hundred pounds in two years. -Around that, yeah.
-Around that? A hundred 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'd paralyze 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-I was aware of it all happening.
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 times a week for my back.
-Not very hard. But you know. -Uh-huh.
'Cause 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-I 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,
okay, at 9:00 a.m., I'm gonna go to the gym.
Okay, great. Well, that gives me some discipline.
Okay, 1:00 p.m. 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 bothered about that at all but...
in that process of having, you know, lost all of that weight,
I definitely really contributed towards
me getting my mind right, you know.
-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-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 it actually in many ways felt like I had abandoned them
-or something. -Mm-hmm. Yeah.
And lots of people are talking about your weight
and all in your business about it.
-Yeah. -And I want to know,
what is 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.
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 color 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 I--
that's not my job and I-I can't...
I'm trying to sort my own life out.
-You know, I can't... -[laughs]
I can't add another worry and another thing to try and nail.
-I can't, like, you know? -Okay.
-And... -I got that, I love that.
-Yeah. -I love that. I love that.
And, you know, my-my weight might fluctuate
now that I can't work out as much and I'm on set all day.
You know, I mean, I'm eating.
But I don't care if I put on weight.
I don't care if I lose it again. Like, it's not about that.
As long as, like, my muscle memory doesn't go
for when I'm lifting my weights, which is,
like my favorite place to be.
-Lifting weights? Okay. -I love it.
-I love it. I love it. -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 have been in the Olympics.
I remember saying to my trainers all the time, "I'm gonna get,
I'm gonna get an Olympic gold medal next."
-I was like, you know. -[laughs]
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 ten pounds.
It started at ten pounds when I first started lifting.
I am... Wow.
Oh, no, I'm-- 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
hadn't discovered boys and someone had told me
to go and do a bit more P.E.
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. -Okay.
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 not--
I ain'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 you.
-OPRAH: Really? -ADELE: Oh, yeah.
-Yeah, I'm a very good boxer. -I'd be scared.
[both laughing]
OPRAH: 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. -Mm-hmm. Yeah.
"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? -My friends.
The question is, what were you holding on to?
Um, my-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-to, like, keep going with it.
It's a process, you know; the process
of-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
when I, you know, when I, when I became a mum;
um, 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, it's-it's, you know, so many people
know what I'm talking about and it can--
you know, I feel like that as well.
I-I juggle those things as well.
And it just-- I felt like not doing it anymore,
and also trying to, like,
move forward, like...
but, like, with intention,
not just trying to get out of it for no reason.
It made my feet hurt, walking through all of that concrete.
[laughs]
I never, 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 those 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.
["Hold On" playing]
♪ Love will soon come♪
♪ Just 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 will soon come♪
♪ Just hold♪
♪ Hold on♪
♪ I swear to God, I am 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 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 on♪
♪ Let time be patient♪
♪ You are still strong♪
♪ Let pain be gracious♪
♪ Yes, oh, I♪
♪ Just hold on♪
♪ 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♪
♪ On...!♪
♪ Whoo♪
♪ Let time be patient♪
♪ 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 on♪
♪ Just let time be patient♪
♪ Whoo♪
♪ 'Cause you're still strong♪
♪ I'm still strong♪
♪ Just be gracious♪
♪ Love will soon come♪
♪ If you just hold on♪
♪ Mm♪
♪ Just hold on♪
♪ Just be patient♪
♪ Just hold on, you♪
♪ Just hold on, just hold on, just hold on.♪
Whew.
[cheering]
Thank you.
[cheering continues]
I heard you. Thanks.
♪ You could've had it all♪
ANNOUNCER: Coming up next...
♪ Rolling in the deep♪
OPRAH: 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.
-Especially when he's like, "I'm drinking juice." -Yes.
So I'm like, "Well, 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 from my dad.
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 would feed off this energy
so they'd be like, well, why would I, like...
like, make-- 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. Like, you know?
Um, so it was definitely... definitely that.
And then during the-the, you know,
the sort of the last two, three years of my life,
my dad got really sick.
And it was interesting that that...
happened during-- after, just after having left
my marriage when I had already made the conscious decision
to get to know myself and figure some things out.
And... not-not-not that long ago,
it was, um, back in April.
When he-- when my dad died
and we had our peace together, I felt that...
that huge gaping hole fill, like, you know?
-Really? -Just, we-we-we forgave each other.
'Cause, you know, I said hurtful things.
I did-- 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.
Um, but we found our peace together.
And then...
You played the album for him.
Played the album too, on Zoom, yeah. Yeah.
Was that healing for both of you?
-Yeah. -What did you learn from that?
When we met up and when I heard he was ill,
um, 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."
'Cause he definitely was the reason.
He was the reason I haven't fully accessed what it is
to be, like, in a loving, loving relationship with somebody.
-Like, 360, like, 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 song I ever wrote
when I was, like, 16.
And he was like, "It's too painful," like, you know.
-He's never heard anything other than "Hometown..." -He would never listen.
He would switch it off and he never ever
played any of my other music, he said.
So I forced him to listen
and it's like we both cried and stuff like that,
and then, um, so that-- him sort of really
understanding my child wound through my song
was amazing for me.
And again, I think he could listen to me sing it
but not say it. Yeah, 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 favorites were all of my favorites,
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. Yeah. The journey. -Yeah. He wished he'd done it.
-Yeah. -Yeah. And he was proud of me for doing it, so it was,
it was very, very healing. But when he died,
it was just, it was, it literally, it was...
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 a seven-year-old Adele?
-Yeah. -And when you did that, sat with
the seven-year-old Adele...
-Yeah. -What did you find?
Um...
A very sad little girl.
Mm.
No! You're trying to make me cry.
No, I'm not. No, I'm not.
No, yeah, it was. It was.
She was sad but also, you know,
she was willing, willing.
-Willing to get out and run. -Look at what she did.
-I said I wouldn't stay in there.
-Yeah. -I said that when I was little.
-Look at what she did. -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-- I've been,
you know, sent to the wrong place."
I said I wasn't staying there and I-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. -Yeah!
And then you learn to appreciate all the things that you did
-have to go through. -Yeah.
'Cause it's a part of it. You 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]
["Rolling in the Deep" playing]
♪ 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 of your hands♪
♪ And you played it to the beat♪
♪ Yeah♪
♪ 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 sure won't be shared♪
You can dance if you want.
♪ 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♪
♪ Rolling in the deep♪
♪ You had my heart inside of your hands♪
♪ And you played it to the beat♪
♪ You could've had it all♪
♪ Rolling in the deep♪
♪ You had my heart inside of your hands♪
♪ But you played it with a beating♪
Here we go!
♪ Throw your soul♪
♪ Through every open door♪
♪ Count your blessings♪
♪ To find what you look for♪
♪ Turn my sorrow into treasured gold♪
♪ You'll pay me back in kind♪
♪ And reap just what you've sown♪
♪ You're gonna wish you never had met me♪
♪ 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♪
♪ 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 of your hands♪
♪ But you played it♪
♪ To the beat♪
♪ You could've had it all♪
-♪ Rolling in the deep♪ -♪ Tears are gonna fall♪
-♪ Rolling in the deep♪ -♪ You had my heart♪
♪ Inside of your hands♪
♪ But you played it♪
♪ You played it, you played it♪
♪ You played me to the beat.♪
[cheering]
Oh, thank you. Well done. Look at that,
standing up. Thank you.
That's my only fast one, you see.
So I know the urge-- it really kicks in when...
when a fast song comes on with me.
You better dance while you can.
OPRAH: So how do you start dating again?
I mean, you can't go on a dating app. Do you, like...
-No. -...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 dance floor.
And I met him and then a couple of-- couple years later,
we went out for dinner, which he says was a business meeting.
I'm like, a business meeting about what?
We wouldn't be having 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
-is, like, in real life. -Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm. What was it about him that drew you to him?
I mean, we all know he's the super agent.
-And he's... -Yeah, he's just hilarious.
-He's also hilarious? -Oh, he's so funny.
-Okay. -No, he's hilarious.
-Yeah, and very smart. -Okay.
You know, he's very, very smart.
It's quite... quite incredible watching him do what he does.
And just the easiness of it. It's just, it's...
-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]
Okay, so this relationship with super agent Rich Paul...
I can't say his name without saying "super agent" Rich Paul.
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.
Y-Yeah, but I mean, by arriving and turning up.
-Yeah. -You know, maybe I'm getting a different version
of him and who knows? It's just, it's just timing.
-Mm-hmm. -It's just timing, but it'll be interesting to see
what my reaction is like in general to anything that
hurts me now that I feel so secure in myself.
-Yeah. -And I'm talking outside of romance as well.
Like, I'm just talking about 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?
Well, I hope so.
-I hope so, you know. -Mm-hmm.
But the music will change?
Like...
Like, "Love Is," like, 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 fooling. 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, I don't, um,
I don't treat it like a game anymore.
You know, that thing of like, you're gonna hurt me
so I'm gonna hurt you first. I certainly,
I'm 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--
-drawing that to yourself. -Yeah.
And do you know what that is, ultimately?
What do you really want?
-Peace of mind. -Just peace of mind?
-Just peace of mind. -Okay.
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 heard as well while on my journey was:
"If you're not feeling everything,
you're missing everything."
That sort of gave me permission.
Mm-hmm.
To really do that during the process.
-Yeah. Yeah. -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.
-It's wild. -We had a little chat.
Thanks for letting me come to the concert.
Oh, my gosh, I'm so excited.
-It's gonna be so great. -I hope you like it. Yeah.
And I wish you all the things your heart desires.
-Oh, thanks. You, too. -That's my prayer for you.
-Thank you. -All the things your heart desires.
And still good music from a happy space.
-[laughs] Yeah, for sure. -Okay?
-Thank you very much. -Well done.
["Love is a Game" playing]
♪
♪ 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♪
♪ 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♪
♪ Fooling♪
-♪ 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♪
♪ But I'm no good at doing 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♪
-♪ 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♪
♪ When I keep changing my mind♪
♪ Change your mind, change your 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♪
♪ To self-inflict that pain♪
♪ 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♪
[singers vocalizing]
♪
All right. So the biggest lesson I learned
in sorting this out is that you can't control
bloody anything, so just go with it.
Just sit with it. Have a laugh and enjoy all of it.
Thank you for coming tonight.
Give it up for my band. Give it up
for the beautiful orchestra.
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.
Thank you for coming. Thank you for sticking with me.
Especially everyone that knows me
because I bet it was hard to hang on sometimes.
♪
[singers vocalizing]
♪ I can love♪
♪ I can, oh, yeah♪
♪ I love me now♪
♪ I can love me♪
♪ I'm a fool for that♪
♪ Yeah, yeah♪
♪ I'm gonna do it♪
♪ Oh♪
♪ I'll do it all again♪
♪ Like I did then♪
♪ 'Cause I'm addicted♪
♪ I'm addicted♪
♪ You know I'm gonna do it♪
♪ Again.♪
-[cheering] -Thank you.
♪
♪ 'Cause I'm addicted♪
♪ I'm addicted♪
♪ You know I'm gonna do it♪
♪ Again.♪
[cheering swells]