Adele’s never-ending disagreement with her biological father

English nightingale Adele had abandoned her alcoholic father for many years, even until his death last week at the age of 57 from cancer.

Adele recently celebrated her 33rd birthday in an 8.5 million pound Hollywood mansion with her 8-year-old son and other stars including actress Jennifer Lawrence and singer Harry Styles. Meanwhile, her estranged father – Mr. Mark Evans – lived his last days in a simple mobile home in a park in Llantwit Major, South Wales. He battled bowel cancer since 2013 and passed away alone a few days ago.

Mr. Mark Evans – Adele’s father.

Mark Evans has been cut off from both Adele and her half-brother Cameron for more than 10 years. But the relationship between Adele and her father was worse. They never reconciled, although Mr. Mark once claimed that they had hooked up. Despite the pleas of public opinion and her father revealing the bowel cancer diagnosis, she still did not let go of her hatred. Sources close to the singer believe that she sees her father’s death as a “liberation”.

Adele hasn’t seen her father since she was 11 years old, but the real rift came in 2011 because of an interview with Mr. Mark Evans. Adele was very angry when her father claimed that his daughter inherited his and her grandmother’s singing voice, that he was a major influence on her music. In that supposedly ill-advised interview, Mark also guessed that Adele was unhappy in her personal life because of the lack of a father figure. Those were words Adele could not forgive.

Adele grew up with her mother’s love and care while her father abandoned her at the age of 11.

Mark Evans has spent the past 10 years apologizing to his daughter but he never received a response. He said contacting the US President is even easier. “I’ve texted, written letters and sent her birthday and Christmas cards, but Adele seems to think I’m dead. I don’t care about her fame or money, I just want become Adele’s father like before and grandfather to her son.”

However, Adele did not have many memories of her father from childhood when he abandoned her and her mother.

Adele’s family story began in 1987 when Mark Evans met Penny Adkins – Adele’s mother – in a pub in North London. At that time, Mark was a handsome, attractive Welsh worker and Penny – the daughter of a vegetable seller – was a student at Barnet College of Art. Penny was thinking about going to university when she started her relationship with Evans, but within two weeks she was shocked to discover she was pregnant. She decided to keep the baby instead of going to college and went to live in a government low-income apartment. Penny, 18, gave birth to Adele in Tottenham, North London. And Mark Evans is 25 years old. They tried to maintain their relationship but could not find anything in common. When Adele was three, her parents separated. Since then they have had very little contact with each other.

Rare photo of Adele and her father.

Mark returned to Wales and worked for his father – who ran a cafe at Barry Island fair. He rarely contributed financially to raise his daughter. “Penny never wanted anything from me. I gave her money sometimes, when I could,” Mark explains. Adele once confirmed that her father did not provide support, but she said: “It’s okay, I don’t feel like I lack anything.”

Adele said her mother not only raised her but also nurtured her love of music and helped her take the first steps in her career as a singer. At age 5, Adele sang Gabrielle’s Dreams at family gatherings. When she was 11 years old, mother and daughter moved to West Norwood in South London. At the age of 14, she began attending the BRIT School of Art in Croydon. Two years later, she had her own manager. In her late teens, after getting a recording contract, she moved out to live independently in a rented apartment in Notting Hill, West London. After a few months, however, she moved back home — a modest apartment in West Norwood — with her mother. And that’s where she wrote her first hit album, 19 , released in 2008.

Adele confided: “I miss my mother so much that I can’t really work without her. She is my best friend.” When she achieved great success in her career, Adele emotionally thanked her mother in public. “Mom, your daughter did so well!” Adele expressed on the 2012 Grammy stage after winning six awards.

The singer bought her mother a house worth £600,000 in London. Mrs. Penny was very happy, but as a modest and private person, she never accepted interviews or showed off her daughter.

On the contrary, at that time, Mr. Mark Evans began to publicly talk about his famous daughter. Mr. Mark shared his deep regret about their broken relationship. In a 2011 interview, Mark said: “I wasn’t there for my daughter when I should have been and I regret every moment of my life up until this moment.”

Evans affirmed that he played an important role in his daughter’s musical development: ‘At that time, I often lay on the sofa all night, holding Adele (as a baby) in my arms and listening to my favorite music. : Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Bob Dylan and Nina Simone. Night after night, I listened to those records. I’m sure that’s what shaped Adele’s music. The music that I loved and still love to this day gave me the idea of ​​giving her middle name Blue. I always think of Adele as Blue.”

Mark added that after breaking up with Adele’s mother, he still took his daughter to stay with him on vacations. “Adele came to stay with me the summer after her 4th birthday. She brought with her a small acoustic guitar that she got from a charity shop. She said she was teaching herself to play by listening to the blues songs we used to play. listened on my tape recorder. Adele taught herself for many years and by the time she was 7 years old, I knew she would one day become a big star.”

Her father’s sharing did not make Adele emotional, but on the contrary. The singer was angry because her father claimed credit for shaping her music. Meanwhile, since 1999, Mr. Mark has not seen his daughter.

Mark Evans confirmed he had not seen his child since she was 11 years old, but blamed circumstances. Mark said that at that time he was immersed in alcohol to forget the sadness after his father’s death from cancer. “I drank two liters of vodka and seven to eight liters of Stella every day. I did that for three years. Only God knows how I survived. I’m extremely ashamed of who I am and I know The best I can do for Adele is to make sure she never sees me in that state,” Mark explained.

Not only did he abandon Adele, Mark also broke up with his long-time girlfriend Siobhan – the mother of his son Cameron. Later, Cameron also abandoned his biological father.

Adele said the last time she saw her father was at her grandmother’s funeral, when she was 15 years old, and they never reconciled. While Mark responded to the press that father and son were close again and that he was the proudest father in the world, Adele never confirmed it. Until Mr. Mark expressed his worry in an interview that Adele’s relationships had broken down because he abandoned his daughter, the singer angrily spoke up: “I’m ready to start trying to have I had a relationship with him, but he blew it. He will never hear from me again, because nothing bothers me more than my father being bribed by the press. How did he He dared to comment on my life. He said: ‘I love her very much!’. Is that true? Why did you tell me that through a newspaper? If I met you, I would spit in your face. that”.

Adele’s father felt deeply hurt by his daughter’s “cruel statement”. But Adele did it. She did not invite her father to the wedding, did not tell him about her husband Simon Konecki or announced that she was pregnant and gave birth to a boy named Angelo.

Adele is living with her son in a mansion in Los Angeles.

Every time he has the opportunity to give an interview to the press, Mark still says how proud he is of Adele and only wishes the best for his daughter. But he was still never forgiven. In 2013, Mark had cancer and he said father and son had reconciled. However, at the 2017 Grammy Awards, Adele once again announced that she had no relationship with her father. When receiving the award, the female singer thanked her manager: “We have been together for more than 10 years. I love him like my father. I love you very much. I don’t love my father, really.” So”.

Before 2019, Mark Evans worked as a driver for a transport company with a salary of 50 pounds per day and lived in a rented apartment in Bridgend, South Wales. He then moved to Ham Manor Park and lived in a mobile home there. Mark doesn’t need to pay rent, in exchange he acts as a babysitter for the other residents.

Adele currently has a fortune of 150 million pounds, and was for many years the richest young singer in the country. She recently divorced businessman Simon Konecki and moved to Los Angeles, starting a completely different life. The female singer lost weight, went to the gym, had therapy and made friends with Hollywood artists.

A friend of the Someone Like You singer revealed that, right now, all Adele wants is to escape her old self, old sadnesses and failed relationships in the past, including with her father. and with ex-husband Simon Konecki.