Adele Says She ‘Was a Shell of a Person’ After Backlash to Vegas Residency Postponement
postpone her Las Vegas residency earlier this year, telling BBC’s “Desert Island Discs” host Lauren Laverne on Friday that the backlash left her a “shell of a person.”Her January Instagram announcement that the Caesar’s Palace shows were not happening as planned was met with immediate outcry from ticketholders, and her tearful video was widely criticized.“I definitely felt everyone’s disappointment and I was devastated and I was frightened about letting them down,” she told Laverne of the last-minute decision to shelve the residency, which would have run from January through April.“I was a shell of a person for a couple of months. I just had to wait it out and just grieve it, I guess, just grieve the shows and get over the guilt, but it was brutal,” she continued, adding that the shows would be rescheduled “very, very soon.”She also told Laverne, “I thought I could pull it together and make it work and I couldn’t, and I stand by that decision.