Adele planning 'full recovery' as she reveals Las Vegas residency has 'battered' her

Tonight is expected to be one of the most emotional nights in Adele ’s career.

For after years of planning, delays, upsets and ultimately rave reviews, she’s going to be hanging up her microphone on her Las Vegas residency for the last time. It’s been a long road since January 2022 when she first made the decision to cancel shows at just 24 hours’ notice, blaming the pandemic and then the production design.

But what started as a career low for the superstar soon became a career turning point - because when she finally took to the stage at Caesars Palace that November she not only blew fans away, but she began to overcome her debilitating stage fright.

Tonight however the 36-year-old Londoner is finally ready to say goodbye to Sin City - and, if she has her way, she’ll be celebrating with a bottle of red and a few days of complete bed rest. She can definitely afford the time off - as Adele will end her Las Vegas Residency this weekend having banked a whopping $100m (£79.5m) from 100 shows, according to Caesars’ execs.

But while her bank balance has swelled, she admits she has “run out of gas” emotionally and physically - especially after juggling Vegas with her 10-night run in Munich. Adele, who had vocal surgery and health problems over the years, may only have been performing on Friday and Saturdays but it has had an enormous impact on her.

“Doing four hours a weekend of completely live singing is a lot. And I chat a lot, and I’m very, very sensitive and I’m emotional,” she said at a recent performance. “I am battered after these shows. And I take every single person on in this room into my soul, I take you home with me.”

She added that she’s been on “full recovery” every Sunday to Thursday - and now she’s finally ready to say goodbye - rather than sing Hello. “I have loved these shows so very, very much,” continued Adele, as she shared her feelings with her audiences over the past few weeks.

“I’m going to miss [the shows] terribly. But I’m very ready for them to be over. It’s a big deal to me because it’s very, very bittersweet. But this [residency] has been in my mind for four years…four years for one f***ing idea. So I’m looking forward to having loads of spare time to love on my kids, to love on my man and to love on another kid. To love on my house.

“I need to get back to my own life.” It’s not too much to ask. Adele has often hinted at being broody after falling for her new man sports agent Rich Paul, 43, in 2021. She already has son Angelo, 12, with ex Simon Konecki, and she’s stepmum to Rich’s three children Reonna, 22, Richie, and Zane. The pair recently bought Sylvester Stallone’s former mansion in LA and Adele has been flying between there and Vegas.

But before she thinks about the big picture, her immediate plans are a lot simpler - she’s going to celebrate with some previously forbidden red wine. “A bottle of red wine is what I am going to need,” she told her audience, which included the Mirror. “I’ve obviously drank lots of white wine over the last two years that I’ve been doing this, but red wine really f***s me up. I know it makes my mouth go red, it dries out my vocal cords. It gives me the worst hangovers.

“So I’ve really steered here of red wine for a good couple of years. And Saturday night I’m probably going to have a [lot] of red wine. So that’s the most exciting thing for when the show ends!” The plans get more chilled from there. Then after that I think I’m just going to really, really veg until the end of the year,” she confided. “I feel like I’m early hibernating already.”

Her ideal scenario is to “stay in bed” and “watch lots of TV. I love it and it always comforts me and makes me feel cosy,” she added. “And I might go out of my way to set myself a New Year’s resolution for the first time and actually take it seriously. I dunno what that resolution’s going to be yet, but I’ll find something.”

The Tottenham-born star has been so wiped out after her emotional shows she admits she often looks like the “the pigeon lady from Home Alone” while doing the school run. “Mondays, I’m very, very bedraggled because I get home very, very, very, very early on Sunday morning rather than very late on Saturday,” she said, in her typical honest manner.

“And I look like a truck has hit me. Normally I go on vocal rest for a couple of days. Sometimes I need it. Sometimes I pretend I need it so I don’t need to talk to anybody.” You can’t really blame her. And she earned it. A Caesars Palace executive confirmed to the Mirror: “Adele’s shows have been a massive money spinner for us and her over the last couple of years.

“She has cleared at least a million on average a night. Plus on top of that the merchandise earnings and extra streaming sales would have been a huge deal. It is one of the highest grossing and most commercially successful residencies of all time - surpassing the money made by Britney Spears and J-Lo.”

They went as far as to claim she had “changed the face of Las Vegas entertainment” with her “fresh style of performance and audience interaction”. “We have enjoyed so many repeat visitors to the show, because fans love her onstage chatter often as much as her performances,” they told the Mirror.

“Everyone knew it would be a tall order [to play here] after the successes of Elton [John] and Celine [Dion], but she has not only crushed it, but raised the bar to a new level.” Talking of Celine, it was for the iconic star that Caesar’s Palace built its Colosseum where Adele performs. Celine did two record-breaking residences, between 2003 and 2007 and 2011 and 2019.

Adele admitted she “lost it” when the legendary singer visited her show last month. “She came and it was a surprise and I didn’t know, and it was honestly one of the best nights of my f***ing life,” Adele said. “Normally I go straight on voice rest after a show because not only do I sing like 21 songs, but also I talk a lot. But I was FaceTiming all my friends and I was like, ‘Oh my God!’.

“She is the reason I am here. I knew if I was going to do Vegas it had to be here, because of her.” The people watching Adele tonight are likely to be as moved by her as she was by Celine. And it could be a historic moment as Adele has teased - or rather tormented - fans of late, suggesting her live singing future is in doubt.

First she insisted that she would be “going away for a very long time”. Then she noted that: “I don’t know when I will be back.” Then a fortnight ago she broke fans’ hopes of a potential Tottenham Hotspur football stadium show by saying she will walk away forever . “In two weeks I am retiring. This is the end,” she said. “It’s (the 100th and final show). And that’s the last one.

“And I don’t have any plans to be on stage indefinitely, really.” Hopefully after some Merlot and mooching of the sofa the $100million superstar will rethink. Until then she’s proud of her time as the resident Diva Las Vegas. “I am a drama queen,” she laughed. And with a talent like hers she deserves to be.

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