- Adele and her husband, Simon Konecki, announced they broke up after being together for eight years.
- Here’s why they split and are currently in a $180 million divorce.
On April 19, 2019, Adele’s reps confirmed she and her husband, Simon Konecki, split up after eight years together and three years of marriage. At the time, her people said, “Adele and her partner have separated. They are committed to raising their son together lovingly. As always, they ask for privacy. There will be no further comment.”
Here, we’re breaking down everything you need to know about Adele and Simon’s divorce, from the financials to why they split and how they’re dealing now.
Why did Adele and Simon Konecki divorce?
The news rocked the internet and had people sending her all their love and wondering when exactly she’ll put out another album that’s already guaranteed to make you sob. But now that everyone has settled down a bit, People and E! sources are here to share why Adele and Simon called it quits…and if true, the reason sounds pretty darn similar to Lady Gaga’s recent split (and the plot of A Star Is Born).
According to one source, the 15-time Grammy winner’s work schedule became too busy and ended up putting strain on their relationship. They said, “They had a lot in common early on, but eventually they just grew apart. She became a bigger and bigger star, and he was okay [with] being in the background, but as she got bigger and had massive tours and intense schedules, they just grew apart.”
While it sounds like there may be some drama going on, the source assured everyone there are no hard feelings and no fingers being pointed. They added, “They were into the marriage pretty much until they decided this just isn’t working anymore.”
How are Adele and Simon Konecki co-parenting?
Since Adele and Simon have a 6-year-old son named Angelo to take care of, they’re trying to keep this $180 million divorce as chill as possible. People’s source said, “I just can’t see her divorce getting messy because she’s so careful when it comes to her son. She’s always five steps ahead in terms of how a decision will affect him.”
In spring of 2021, the Associated Press reported that Adele and Simon would share custody of Angelo and that the singer would not be paying spousal or child support.
According to a Rolling Stone profile from November 2021, Adele and Simon are on great terms—as friends, at least (the reporter even wrote that he was texting Adele memes during their interview). “The end came with the heartbreaking, if less dramatic, feeling that she was getting further from the person she hoped to be,” the piece asserts.
“I didn’t really know myself,” the singer told Rolling Stone. “I thought I did. I don’t know if it was because of my Saturn Return or if it was because I was well and truly sort of heading into my 30s, but I just didn’t like who I was.”
In a 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, Adele opened up about the difficulties that come with co-parenting and sharing custody of her son.
“It was just exhausting trying to keep going with it,” she said (per CBS News). “It’s a process—the process of a divorce, the process of being a single parent, the process of not seeing your child every single day wasn’t really a plan that I had when I became a mom.”
How does Adele feel about the split now?
Looking back on the split in 2021, Adele told Rolling Stone that she never felt as “settled and happy” as she had wanted to in her marriage and admitted that coming to terms with the failure of the relationship was hard on her.
“It made me really sad,” she said. “Then having so many people that I don’t know know that I didn’t make that work…it fucking devastated me. I was embarrassed. No one made me feel embarrassed, but you feel like you didn’t do a good job.”
The split also led to her much-discussed weight loss.
“[I figured] if I can transform my strength and my body like this, surely I can do it to my emotions and to my brain and to my inner well-being,” she explained (per People). “That was what drove me. It just coincided with all of the emotional work that I was doing with myself as a visual for it, basically.”
The singer says she still struggles though. During a candid sit-down interview with Oprah Winfrey, she opened up about the uncertainty she’s living in post-divorce.
“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,” she explained (per CBS News). “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?”
