Adele Interview: World Exclusive First Interview in Three Years
When she was ten-years-old, Adele's granddad died. She was devastated. "I loved him so much, more than the world." As well as her own grief, she sensed the depth of loss felt by her grandmother. "My grampy and my nana had always been my ideal relationship - ideal friendship, companionship, everything. Even though I'm sure there's loads of shit I don't know about, as their granddaughter it was bliss, just heaven. I was so, so sad." So acute was the grief that she decided there and then to become a heart surgeon. "I wanted to fix people's hearts," she says. A year later, Adele started senior school and threw herself into biology lessons at Balham's Chestnut Grove School. Until she discovered, well, "fun - and boys. I gave up on it. My heart wasn't in it anymore." And that was that for Adele's aortic ambitions.
