Adele Speaks on Therapy and Divorce During Las Vegas Residency

Adele received cheers from her Las Vegas crowd after opening up about therapy and divorce during her residency performance at Caesars Palace on Friday, December 9.

Video recorded by Francisco Leos-Santoyo shows the superstar talk candidly about her 2021 divorce. Leos-Santoyo said Adele had just performed her 2011 hit song Someone Like You.

“I have been highly emotional during that song and then I tend to cry, but this week I am not going to cry. I am going to stay strong,” Adele says.

“I have started having therapy again, I went a few years not having it and before when I was having my divorce I was basically having like five therapy sessions a day.”

Adele is currently performing her first concert residency at Caesars Palace, which is planned to continue until March next year. Credit: Francisco Leos-Santoyo via Storyful

Video Transcript

[CHEERING]

ADELE: And the last couple of weeks, I've been highly emotional during that song, and then I tend to cry in this bit. But this week, I'm not going to cry. I'm going to stay strong.

[CHEERING]

- You're doing great! You're doing great!

ADELE: This might sound really annoying to you, but I'm going to tell you anyway. So I started having therapy again, right? So I went a few years without having any.

[CHEERING]

Because I needed to start-- I started to act like before. Like, obviously when I was going through my divorce, I was, like, basically doing five therapy sessions a day. But I stopped holding myself accountable for my own behavior and the things that I would say, and it's because I could always fall back on my therapist to be like, oh, the reason you did that is because when you were 10, this happened.

I'm like [VOCAL WARBLE]. I was like, I need to just hold myself accountable for it. But now I'm doing it because I just want to make sure that I am, like, topping myself up every week to make sure I can give you everything of me.

[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

And my whole therapy session this week was really, really interesting. It was-- it was about these shows and stuff like that. And I've always been so-- oh, now I am going to get emotional. I always-- I love making music, but there's something about performing live that actually terrifies me and, like, fills me with dread normally, right?

And that's why I'm a big touring artist. I did it last time to prove I could do.

[CHEERING]

Hang on, I'm telling you.

- You got it!

ADELE: But this-- this experience of being in a room this size, I think I might be a live artist for the rest of my life. Like, it is--

[CHEERING]

I've always, like, put such a massive, like, pressure on myself that everything has to be perfect, perfect. Obviously, this show did have to be fucking perfect for you.

[LAUGHTER]

Hence me delaying it. Again, I'm sorry. But, like, I think actually I'm just a human, actually, and that's what-- having to cancel those shows did, is that if my voice ain't--

[CHEERING]

--top notch, that's all right. But my soul is top notch. I'll tell you that. That's what I'm trying to say to my therapist. And there's just, like, having the human interaction every weekend is honestly-- I'm the happiest I've ever, ever, ever, ever been.

[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

I have two shows a week in a much smaller room. And seeing people receive my music is honestly-- it's just what I'm going to do from now on, is play smaller rooms.