Adele[/B] talked about losing 45 pounds and how it made some of her fans feel "very betrayed".
The 34-year-old singer revealed how she "felt awful" after her dramatic weight loss upset some of her fans who were used to her being several pounds overweight.
The singer, who showed off her new shapely figure on the cover of Vogue magazine last year, says she was upset to learn that the weight loss made some of her fans suffer.
On May 6, 2020, Adele on the occasion of her birthday (it's May 5) wanted to show her online friends how many pounds she had managed to lose
Facing backlash, she explained that she lost the pounds for "myself" after much struggle and long periods of stress.
Speaking on BBC radio show Desert Island Discs on Saturday, she said: 'I can see why the press were fascinated by it. I didn't share my journey the way everyone else does. Most people would have released at least one DVD by now. I did it secretly for myself. But I felt awful for some people who were upset."
The answer to the big weight loss
Adele denied that she slimmed down because she was under social pressure to do so. "Some of the ones I saw were young, they were around 15. There were some other people who felt very betrayed by me, like, 'Oh, she's succumbing to pressure,' which didn't really bother me. Because, like, you don't hold my hand at night at 4 in the morning when I'm crying from my anxiety. 100% exercise gave me focus and a way to release my energy - good or bad - and it made me feel like I was getting stronger mentally by getting stronger physically."
She chooses the people she wants to be in her life
She says that despite the setbacks she discovered a new sense of peace in her life in part thanks to "a lot of healing." She adds, "I no longer put myself in situations that exhaust me. I walk away from them. I choose the people in my life very, very carefully now."
Elsewhere, Adele revealed how the "violent" reactions of her fans caused by the cancellation of her Las Vegas concert in January left her feeling like a "shell of a person."
She described that dealing with the aftermath of her decision to drop out of performing for three months felt like "mourning."
People's violent reactions
"The reaction was violent, violent. I was a shell of a person for a few months. I had to wait it out and mourn, I guess mourn the performances and get over the guilt. But it was brutal."
Adele who performed the last two nights in London's Hyde Park says the decision to cancel the shows wasn't easy, but she generally believed it was the right thing to do.
And she adds: "I definitely felt everyone's disappointment and I was devastated and I was scared of letting them down and I thought I could pull it off. You can't buy me you can't buy me for nothing. I'm not going to do a show just because I have to or because people will be disappointed or because we'll lose a lot of money. I say: 'The show is not good enough'."
Source: protothema.gr
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