Adele is embracing sobriety these days, but she’s missing a casual drink every now and then. During the singer/songwriter’s Las Vegas residency this past weekend, she spotted a fan in the crowd enjoying an alcoholic beverage, which resulted in her revealing that she has given up liquor in recent months.
“I stopped drinking quite a long time ago…I stopped drinking, when did I stop drinking? It feels like forever. Maybe like three and a half months ago,” she’s seen telling audience members in a video shared on X. “It’s boring. I mean, oh my God, it’s boring. I was literally borderline alcoholic for quite a lot of my 20s, but I miss it so much. I cut out caffeine, so enjoy your whiskey sour. I’m very, very jealous,” she told the audience member enjoying a drink.
The 16-time Grammy winner has been vocal about drinking in the past, telling Vogue in a November 2021 feature that she was “fascinated by alcohol” because it’s what took away her absentee father, Mark Evans (he died of bowel cancer May 2021 and, according to People, was gone for most of Adele’s life after her parents’ divorce when she was 3 years old). “I’ve always had a very close relationship with alcohol. I was always very fascinated by alcohol. It’s what kept my dad from me. So I always wanted to know what was so great about it,” she told the magazine.
Adele also spoke with Oprah in the same month about abstaining from alcohol, noting that quitting it is an incredible tool for self-reflection: “That’s one great way of really sort of getting to know yourself, is just drinking water and being sober as anything.”
Watch Adele talk about her current relationship with alcohol below.
