Adele was supposed to spend the first few months of 2022 in Sin City, and things went crazy after she decided to postpone her Las Vegas Residency. Six months later, the British hitmaker reflected on her devastating decision and the backlash she dealt with.
Adele was supposed to kick off her residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace on January 21 and stay there until mid-April. Only a day before her residency was supposed to start, she announced its postponement, saying that the show wasn’t ready due to delivery delays and COVID.
The backlash was immediate, and she set down with Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 4 to discuss it six months later. Adele told her that she “was a shell of a person for a couple of months” after canceling the show, but she still stands by her decision.
“I definitely felt everyone’s disappointment and I was devastated and I was frightened about letting them down… 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,” said the 15-time Grammy winner.
Adele is yet to reschedule her Las Vegas dates, but that’s not stopping her from performing elsewhere. Just last weekend, she gave her first public concert in five years at London’s Hyde Park.
