Adele has perhaps taken her signature honesty slightly too far with her latest personal confession.
The British singer, 35, returned to the stage in Las Vegas for her ongoing residency ‘Weekends with Adele’ in the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, where she let the crowd in on a health issue she was dealing with.
“Obviously when I do my shows, I wear Spanx and keep it all in and make it all fit me,” the Easy on Me singer began.
“And I sweat a lot and it doesn’t go anywhere. So basically I just sit in my own sweat. And my doctor gave me Jock Itch [medication].
“So it looks like I am an athlete basically, so I have to squirt it on myself. I don’t know why the f**k I just told you that. It is a bit crude but I never knew it existed.”
Jock Itch is layman’s terms for a medical condition called tinea cruris, a fungal skin infection affecting the genitalia and inner thighs.
Adele initially wrapped her five-month residency in March, but she swiftly announced she’d be extending the deal with 34 more shows at the venue, running through until November.
After a three month break, Adele returned to the stage on Saturday.
“All week I had just been buzzing and right then I was stood [backstage] and I s**t myself,” she said.
“We had a very long break and I am gassed to be back. I was bored out of my brains. Somehow I missed you. It is a lovely change. I genuinely love doing these shows and it is the highlight of my week. I was desperate to get back. It is a whole new meaning.”
According toThe Mirror, Adele filmed the first two shows of the second leg of her residency for an upcoming televised special, for which the publication claims she will make around $AU93 million. That’s on top of her rumoured $AU2.9m per show payment.
The wildly successful tour got off to a dramatic start when Adele pulled the pin on its scheduled start date in January 2022 – just hours before the first show.
Adele broke down in tears as she announced the news on a video posted to Instagram at the time, saying her team simply “wasn’t ready.”
“We’ve been absolutely destroyed by delivery delays and Covid,” she said.
“We’ve been awake for over 30 hours now trying to figure it out and we’ve run out of time. I’m so upset and I’m really embarrassed and I’m so sorry to everyone that’s travelled.”