Adele won’t move back to London because the Los Angeles weather helps her depression.
The singer — who shares 11-year-old son Angelo with ex-husband Simon Konecki and is rumored to have recently tied the knot with sports agent Rich Paul — moved to California in 2016. Not only does she appreciate the fact her privacy is respected there, she also thinks avoiding the gloomy England winters has helped to combat the low mood she typically experiences at that time of year.
“It’s still sometimes strange, but I like it because I get left alone in LA, which sounds weird,” she told The Hollywood Reporter. “And for anyone that has never been to LA, you assume it would be the opposite.”
“But there are so many famous people here that they don’t waste their time,” the singer continued. “Because if I see I’m being followed, I’ll cancel my day and I’ll drive out to Palm Springs and back. I wouldn’t say it can be frenzied elsewhere sometimes, but it’s just … I’ve got 20 minutes. [People start asking,] ‘Is that Adele?’ By the time they realize it is, I’ve got to leave. And I just don’t get that here.”
“I get really bad seasonal depression, so the weather is good for me here,” Adele added. “It is strange sometimes because I’m very British.”
And the “I Drink Wine” hitmaker is thankful she’s made a group of non-famous friends in the city.
“Because it’s a bit harder for me to go out nowadays, what I love the most about LA is everyone goes to each other’s houses. I like that,” she said.
“And I actually have made a lot of really great core friends,” she said. “I didn’t think I’d ever have a real friend group here. I don’t want a bunch of celebrities being my friends — well, only [celebrities]. And [my friends are] actually from LA — which again, before I moved here, I never met one person who was from LA. They’re not famous and they’re great.”
“And having a kid at school, I’ve got great mum friends. But I do like it,” she added.
Singing her 2008 single “Hometown Glory” makes Adele emotional because she “really misses” her home city, though she admitted it is the pre-fame life that she longs for.
“It makes me very emotional,” she said of the track. “I really miss London, but I miss the London from before all of this happened in my life. Remember it like it was yesterday, when I wrote that song. I still feel like it’s my baby.”
“I don’t think everyone knows, but I wrote it the day after I went to my first-ever protest,” she recalled. “In London, the UK, we were annoyed at Tony Blair because he was going to war with Iraq.”
“It was like a million-people turnout in London, and we’re marching,” she said. “I was 16, and me and my friend Olivia went. We made our placard, and it felt so powerful.”
