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Brit singer Adele Adkins is known for singing about pain and heartache and her father’s recent revelation proves that the young singer is intimately familiar with such melancholy sentiments.
For the first time, Adele’s father Marc Evans publicly confessed that he abandoned Adkins and her mother when the Grammy-winning artist was just a baby.
Evans explained that after his own father died in 1999 he became an alcoholic and deserted his daughter and her mother because he felt it was best for them to not be around him while he drank heavily. He admitted that he has been absent for most of Adkins’s life and that his relationship with his famous daughter is consequently fractured.
Speaking about his regrets to the Sun, Evans lamented: “I was a rotten father at a time when she really needed me. I was putting away two litres of vodka and seven or eight pints of Stella every day. I drank like that for three years… I was deeply ashamed of what I’d become and I knew the kindest thing I could do for Adele was to make sure she never saw me in that state… I was not there for my daughter when I should have been and I have regretted that every second of every day to this moment now. It tears me up inside.”
Evans says that he has since reconciled with his talented daughter after an emotional meeting with her in London. He revealed: “We met up at Camden Market and we were sitting at a stall drinking tea when I brought up the subject of my drinking. I started to tell her what had happened to me and she gave me this huge, kind smile and put her arms round me. ‘It’s OK, Dad. I understand. I forgive you’, she said. Just like that, she forgave me. I was so grateful.“
Adele now maintains regular contact with her father, who confirmed: “Adele still comes back to Wales to see us and I pop down to London every couple of months to meet her. The last time I saw her was about six weeks ago. We get on fantastically now so who knows, one of these days I might even find the courage to see one of her shows. I am the proudest dad in the world. I think she is amazing as a person, not just as a performer.“
Adele’s capacity to quickly forgive her father for abandoning her is truly inspirational. Life is too short to harbour hatred of any kind. I reckon her father was right when he said that, in addition to being a great performer, Adele is “amazing as a person.”
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