Rolling in the deep, quite literally. Adele is on vocal rest for the foreseeable future. The “Skyfall” singer broke the news to her fans during her Las Vegas residency that she’s been feeling under the weather.
She posted on social media about her health updates” “Sadly I have to take a beat and pause my Vegas residency,” she wrote. “I was sick at the end of the last leg and all the way through my break. I hadn’t quite gotten the chance to get back to full health before shows resumed and now I’m sick again, and unfortunately it’s all taken a toll on my voice.
“And so on Doctors orders,” she continued, “I have no choice but to rest thoroughly. The remaining 5 weekends of this leg are being postponed to a later date. We are already working out the details and you will be sent the information asap.” She will restart her Weekends with Adele residency on May 18, with nine additional shows taking her through its conclusion in mid-June.
At her last show, she candidly talked to the audience about the state of her voice. “In the middle of last night – I’m sure you can hear it in my talking voice and my singing voice a little bit. Your girl was tired. I didn’t sleep very well,” she said during her show over the weekend of February 24, 2024 via Daily Mail. “And Ursula from the ocean has come from my chest tonight. I can’t hit my headnotes properly. I didn’t sleep very well and my chest is on fire. I can tell I’m going to have a coffee in like 10 days, but I’m still here.”
But don’t worry, she’s already having a recovery plan underway. “Straight after this show I am going on voice rest. Can you imagine how hard now me not talking for three days is? So I’m going to be in bed coughing my guts up on complete voice rest,” she said. Her family is also in support, but she acknowledged they could put a wrench in the plans. “And not only is my partner an absolute chatterbox, so is my son. So I am going to have to lock myself in a cupboard or something like that.”
Because of the bedrest, she had to put a halt to her regular life. “I made very solid plans with my gay friends, they were going to come round to my house. We were going to light a fire, maybe have a spritzer, which obviously now I can’t have – dammit. ‘And we were going to sit down and watch the new JLo movie, which I’ve been so excited about. B**ches f**king made other plans. They already have plans. And they have left me on read.”
Adele’s vocal cords have gotten some press more than a decade ago. In 2011, Adele underwent surgery for a recurrent hemorrhaging caused by a benign polyp on her vocal cord.
